Bush’s State of the Union address will have given plenty of us food for thought, especially in his references to isolationism. In the midst of this speech, however, was the declaration that more needed to be spent on training Americans in the sciences, computers and nanotechnology, and this could spell good news for online teaching and learning and greatly increase the number of teachers opting for online teaching degrees.
According to Bush, "if we ensure that America's children succeed in life, they will ensure that America succeeds in the world," An online teaching degree could be one way of training the 70,000 high school teachers that he wants to learn to teach advanced courses in maths and science.
Online teaching and learning could also benefit from what Bush has said will be a doubling of federal spending on research in the physical sciences though 2016. Tax credits may be offered to industry, and they could offer funding to employees interested in nanotechnology and supercomputing could. The US needs to look forward and outward. Online teaching and learning could be a perfect way to train the Americans needed to realize that dream.
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