I wouldn't necessarily do that, though I sure wouldn't be spinning it out as long as things have been going. I always remind people that they wrote the Magna Carta in six days, that it took only a bit over a month to write the Declaration of Independence, and that Grant wrote the surrender articles while he was talking with Lee. One thing that's good about the NII effort is that it does get these people together. That's one of the main problems, you know. The great government departments and the issues they husband tend to be like ships passing in the dark.
Education tends to be a self-contained enterprise in many regards, and that's too bad.
Among other things, it engenders all sorts of misapprehensions. What they don't like is the idea that some school board made up of successful tire merchants or insurance brokers, for instance, might fall for the Star Wars Fallacy and assume that technology is the solution to all problems, the universal panacea. But they sure would like to have technology make their actual jobs easier. One of the problems, of course, is that teachers don't deal regularly with a lot of the technologists, much less my guys, the TV people. Because these are all resourceful folks.