The daunting challenge of improving a K - 12
educational system that fails to deliver basic scientific literacy to millions of students, and lags behind much of the industrial world, has typically
fallen to other U.S. science agencies, which have much smaller annual
budgets than the $ 30 billion NIH receives.
As the funding for this plan will be driven by the
educational budgets that are already in place, the cost of the e-reader initiative will not
fall to the parents of students in any school system.