Group to launch education program clearinghouse

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February 29, 2000
Web posted at: 8:21 a.m. EST (1321 GMT)

by Dan Caterinicchia

(IDG) -- The American Electronics Association will launch an online clearinghouse to compile all the national data on educational projects sponsored by high-tech companies as well as the impact those programs have on students and workers.

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Anecdotal information shows that U.S. high-tech companies do more for education reform than any other industry, but the data to demonstrate that is not being properly collected and distributed, according to AEA president and chief executive officer William Archey. The AEA, is a national high-tech trade association.

The AEA receives hundreds of inquiries each year from parties interested in educational programs sponsored and established by technology firms, and how they can adopt them. The Web-based clearinghouse, called the National Clearinghouse for High-Technology Education Initiatives, will enable the AEA to respond to the queries with specific information from locations across the country, while also demonstrating to policy officials the large investments being made by technology companies, Archey said.

"Many of these programs are having a very salutary effect on student and teacher performance but will not be replicated because teachers, administrators, local governments and indeed other companies are not aware of these programs," Archey said in a release. "Also, there has been no single source of data on the financial investments American technology firms are making in seeking to improve our schools and universities and the skills of the American work force."

Fundraising for the project, which is expected to cost $500,000 in each of its first two years, has just begun. But Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. have donated $25,000 apiece for each of the initial two years.

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