From an impromptu meeting to 14 million students

One afternoon in late 2012, the White House tech and education teams had an impromptu meeting in a hallway to compare notes.

That day, we realized the same problem was bugging us all: Internet access in schools was incredibly slow. So slow, in fact, that the average American school had the same connectivity as the average American home.

The problem was, schools served hundreds of times as many people. If we didn't do anything about it, school would become the only place in kids' lives not being transformed by technology. 

With the President's support, we set out to fix that problem with an initiative called ConnectED. A lot's happened since then, and I wanted to share a recap... 

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