Done for day. Beer, please. Day job tomorrow. Thanks for all direct feedback & to Orbitz & Initiate for coming along http://ping.fm/fEhps

#CAAT : education is only industry fundamentally unchanged since middle ages… new methods (remote instruction, ondemand personal learning)

#CAAT dropout in Chicago is above 55%… Many kids drop out to earn few bucks (in grocery stores or gangs)… Paid internships helps solve

#CAAT education must be partnership/responsibilty of public and private sector… CAAT will have 600 professionals volunteering as mentors

#Charter Schools & vouchers: city schools can’t keep up w/ innovative methods & teach union death grip.. #CAAT costs us $1.5m to open

#advocacy back 2 back scheduled meetings w/ Congress today. But also doing it old fashion way & just dropping in… Hard 4 them to ignore

Congress needs to hear real tech communty. Big lobbyists have echo chamber. We’re coordinating effort for 35 regional tech councils today.

Topics: R&D credits, #SBIR stirs tech transfer & commercialization… Better than earmarks, support the expansion of programs @terryhowerton

Some #healthcare IT ideas: Clay Christensen’s book “Innovators Prescription” http://ping.fm/DO87M

(yes, I’m between meetings, so Tweets to catch up… Will be sporadic, on walks between HOB and SOB).. What message from you? @terryhowerton