Technology and Transportation Education Program

The Federal Highway Administration, otherwise known as the FHWA, is an agency operating in the United States Department of Transportation that is largely answerable for the management of the country's road transportation system.

The programs and initiatives of the FHWA are constantly steered by its general agency mission which is to"improve mobility on our Community's highways through nationwide leadership, innovation, and programme delivery."

In line with this mission, the Federal Highway Administration has just established the Garrett A. Morgan Technology and Transportation Education Program whereby it aims to improve the readiness of scholars in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by way of the application of curriculum development and a number of other activities that are related to transportation education.

What If We Closed All the Schools?

Over the last few weeks our think tank has been discussing the challenges we face in the future with regards to education. There has been so much in the news lately, it's as if the target keeps moving - indeed this makes planning tough enough, not to mention our in-house dialogues. Okay so, let's talk.

First, you are probably wondering what I am talking about when I speak of the news, well, let me give you a few examples here;

-Student Loan Interest to double, a trillion dollar time bomb.
-Stanford's Tina Seelig states we must teach students to innovate.
-Students need to be turned on to math, not turned off, a study shows.
-We spend more on education than the rest of the world - where are the results?
-The University of Florida is cancelling computer science courses to save $1.7 million per year.