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Excerpts from article, President Obama Moves To Change The Equation on Education, Not ‘Waiting For Superman’
By Dr. David Washington, HuffingtonPost

Today at the White House President Obama is launching Change the Equation (CTEq), a unique and promising partnership coalition of over 100 companies ranging from Facebook and Google to Dow Chemical and Merck, all dedicated to improving science, math, engineering, and technology (STEM) education performance in order to solve America’s innovation problem.

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote an Op-Ed a few weeks ago applauding “‘Waiting for ‘Superman’” for demonstrating that Harlem Children’s Zone founder Geoffrey Canada’s point, that “the only way to fix our schools is not with a Superman or a super-theory”. 

No, it’s with supermen and superwomen pushing super-hard to assemble what we know works: better-trained teachers working with the best methods under the best principals supported by more involved parents.”

Another promising sign that suggests things might turn out differently this time around is that the President has been successful in inspiring the corporate community to step up in a highly coordinated and strategic fashion.
You can tell something big is happening when top companies — including Facebook, DreamWorks, Viacom, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, E-Line, Ogilvy, Tesla, Activision and Epic Games to name just a few — are all united around the single objective of improving the STEM performance and overall innovation prowess of our country’s children.

Read the full article here.