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"Companies that come here because it’s a low-cost community, will be looking for the next low-cost community four years later," Barlow said.

Soon Montana students will begin to learn more about our misunderstood minority, as Indian education for all becomes a reality.

Although many people assume that United States will
always be a world leader in science and technology, this may not continue to be the case inasmuch
as great minds and ideas exist throughout the world. We fear the abruptness with which
a lead in science and technology can be lost—and the difficulty of recovering a lead once lost,
if indeed it can be regained at all.

"Perhaps more than any preceding generation, today’s young people are completely comfortable with rapid technological change," Lemelson-MIT Program Director Merton Flemings said. "The rate of innovation, as reflected in U.S. patent applications, has more than doubled during their lifetime."

Students enrolled in the class don’t read books and take tests to regurgitate what they read.

"Our students are digital natives. We seek to meet our students where they are, and iTunes is the interface that most of our students are already familiar with,"

This school year the district will collect $67 million more in property taxes than the $7 million it is guaranteed for school operations under the state’s K-12 funding formula.

The 2003 test was given to 10 times more students than any previous test, giving researchers a trove of new data.

"If the governor really believes he’s done, he’s the only one who thinks he’s at the finish line that I know of," said Lance Melton, executive director of the Montana School Boards Association.

Many believe in one specific education and economic development strategy that will, by itself, do more than any other strategy to break the cycle of poverty as well as optimize future economic growth in the United States.

That strategy is to invest significantly in quality early education and preschool programs.