... heads of government labs to build their companies. The key factor in the promoting Silicon Valley as the location for technology companies is government funding for Bay Area institutions, primarily, Stanford University. An advantage that Stanford was its willingness to share ideas and follow in the government's ideal of open standards. Unlike its east coast counterparts, MIT and private companies like AT ... became a key component in both training and government innovation. Along with UC-Berkeley, most of the young talented technical engineers were at the Stanford University Labs where ...

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... feel children do not need computers in school, that they can learn to use them at home, or in college, or even after they enter the work force. New York University's Neil Postman writes in his article "The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School" that "approximately 35 million people have already learned to use computers without the benefit of ... evidence that suggests computers,educational software, or the Internet prove to enhance student learning. "Better technology doesn't necessarily make kids better students; good teachers and smart curriculums do." According to Stanford...

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