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The US Congress has given the go-ahead for a new centre to explore ways advanced computer and communications technologies can improve learning.

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"America's reputation as an international leader rests in the hands of our youth," said Sen. Chris Dodd.

"It should be among our top priorities to provide our students with the tools they need to maintain and build upon this standing."

The Senator was one of the original sponsors of a bill that proposed the setting up of the centre. Meanwhile Congressman John Yarmuth of Kentucky spearheaded the passage of the bill through the House and said its timing could not be more critical.

"American businesses know that they need a well-educated workforce to face growing competition from China, India and Europe."

The Federation of American Scientists said, "The creativity that developed extraordinary new information technologies has not focused on finding ways to make learning more compelling, more personal and more productive in our nation's schools.

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Education has not kept pace with technological advances said the FAS

"People assumed that the explosion of innovation in information tools in business and service industries would automatically move into classrooms."

That, the Federation said, has simply not happened.

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American businesses know that they need a well-educated workforce to face growing competition from China, India and Europe.

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People assumed that the explosion of innovation in information tools in business and service industries would automatically move into classrooms.

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Education is falling further and further behind the rest of the economy and we have to rethink our basic approach to helping people learn,

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learning scientists and educators have known for years that people learn faster if education can be personalised and if students are motivated by seeing how their knowledge can help them solve problems they care about.

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oday's generation is very comfortable with using tools like iPods and computers and gaming, but when they go into the classroom none of that is there and there is this sense of an opportunity we are just not grasping,

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centre will concentrate on understanding how to use technology to help everyone learn in a more effective and interesting way that makes that knowledge stick.

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