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The concept for the non-profit grew out of conversations in 2009 with individuals at the San Jose Unified School District (Marcy Lauck, Bill Erlendson), who were national experts at data warehousing and community building for the personalization of education and the management of academic performance. The conversation was expanded to individuals at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where there is an interest in producing future engineers and scientists, to faculty at the University of California Santa Cruz, which has a commitment to widening education access and redefining learning and to the University of Texas Austin where there is an interest in the visualization of education data.
"Gordon Freedman, the founder and president of NLET believes that there should be a “Manhattan Project” of education in the U.S. to address fundamental changes in education necessary to match the needs of the information age. Such a project, he feels, should be able to address the simple question, “how many kindergartners does it take to produce a PhD, an engineer or a professional, and is that number of kindergartners growing larger or smaller?” http://nlet.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/NLET-Summary-2013.pdf |