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"To out-educate, we must out-innovate
Posted by michael_horn | Under Online learning, Schools Thursday Feb 10, 2011
In his State of the Union address, President Obama urged the country to out-innovate the rest of the world. If we want to bolster America's competitiveness now and for the future, there's no better place to start than education, where Obama also said we need to out-educate the rest of the world."