Memo: Improving the federal role in education research
Funding research is one of the widely accepted roles of government. Recognizing this, the federal government currently funds, directly and indirectly, $125 billion per year across a wide variety of areas—developing weapons systems for the military, creating new technologies to protect the environment, finding breakthroughs to cure disease, and more. That makes sense, as the knowledge that comes from research is a public good that everyone can use.
