From this week’s address:

…my economic recovery plan will launch the most sweeping effort to modernize and upgrade school buildings that this country has ever seen.  We will repair broken schools, make them energy-efficient, and put new computers in our classrooms. Because to help our children compete in a 21st century economy, we need to send them to 21st century schools.

Why not have students participate in the modernization effort? The redesign of their schools to be energy-efficient and desirable learning environments would be a real-life problem for students that is both inter-disciplinary and contributes to the community. Not to mention engaging …

More aspects of the recovery plan here. Share your opinions here.