Coining the "New Century" Cliché
- Clinton vows to use the new technology of the '90s (the Internet) to improve education, and asks Congress to have his back.
- He pressures schools to adopt "national standards of excellence" (32.2).
- He challenges communities and parents to teach good values to their children, and suggests school uniforms as a way of decreasing violence in schools. To quote Kanye, I do it for the kids.
- College, college, college! In the next century (and millennium), Clinton declares, higher education is "more important…than ever before" (35.1). He brags about his student loan program.
- He also brags about AmeriCorps, which lets people earn college money by doing community service.
- Clinton proposes expanded college tax credits, which make tuition tax-deductible.