To maintain a dynamic, long-term national competitive advantage, our educational system needs to be about much more than simply teaching the basics and hoping innovators emerge.

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Secondly, Mobile Learning Week served to guide UNESCO in developing policy guidelines to help national governments to take advantage of the educational opportunities offered by mobile technologies.

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Over the last 30 years, American educational institutions have ramped up their pursuit of patents, understanding that new ideas are a competitive advantage in a global marketplace.

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But test leaks occur because there is demand for an advantage from students' parents, said Shim Jai-ok, executive director of the Korean-American Educational Commission in Seoul, which administers Fulbright grants and a number of standardized exams, but not the SAT tests.

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