We know from monitoring children's development for almost a decade that despite lots of money being spent in the early years, standards of early reading and mathematicsdevelopment haven't increased.
Lands' End also provides a good example of how technological development and increasingly clever mathematics are bringing new services to the internet.
The Initiative, a 10-year plan to provide greater work-related flexibility to women and men in research careers, is run by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which is the leading source of Federal grants for many fields that are crucial to US technology development and job creation, including computer science, mathematics, and the social sciences.