Monday, May 02, 2005

Gates: Get U.S. schools in order

By John Borland (C|Net News) writes on ZDNet News that:

Six years ago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer caused a mild panic in the stock market by telling a group of business writers that, in his blunt opinion, share prices were wildly overvalued.

Speaking Monday to the same group of journalists in Seattle, Chairman Bill Gates avoided any such immediately inflammatory words. Instead, he prefaced a quick tour through technology trends with a warning that the United States is in grave danger of losing its economic advantages to fast-growing nations like China, unless the country restores its lead in education and other policies supporting growth.

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