President Bush's American Competitiveness Initiative aims to strengthen education in the U.S. by improving math and science education, foreign language studies, and high schools.

Overview, Reports, Events

• American Competitiveness Summit Webcast (Sep 18, 2007)
• American Competitiveness Initiative (Feb 2007)
• Report of the Academic Competitiveness Council (May 2007)
• Answering the Challenge of a Changing World (Feb 2006)
  Report PDF (7.5MB) | Press Release | Fact Sheet
• American Competitiveness Initiative (2006)
• Secretary Testifies on Competitiveness (Apr 2006)

Video

• Hear Secretary Spellings talk about competitiveness, rigorous coursework and math, and U.S. students performance in math and science.
• Visit California Academy of Math and Science, a Long Beach magnet school where 95% of graduates—primarily inner-city, low-income, at-risk students—go on to four-year colleges and universities. (March 2007)

Programs and Initiatives

• Academic Competitiveness and National SMART Grants
• National Mathematics Advisory Panel
• National Security Language Initiative
• Math Now: Elementary and Middle School
• Adjunct Teacher Corps
• Expanding the Advanced Placement Incentive Program

More...

• Key Things Parents Can Do
• Key Things Businesses and Others Can Do
• Higher Education for a Highly Competitive World
• Additional Fact Sheets

Archived information