To My Fellow Colleagues:
Russia initiated the "Space Race" with the launching of Sputnik in 1959. What grew out of that tumultuous era was the United States becoming a better educated, more innovative and more technology advanced society. We are now faced with another Sputnik. Asian countries like China, Japan and Singapore, just to name a few, along with India are outperforming United States fourth and eight grade students in math and science according to the 2007 Trends in Mathematics and Science Study, TIMSS. If the United States is to maintain it's status as a global economic power, it must reinvent the way science is taught in schools along with STEM education.
In 2009 President Obama launched his "Educate to Innovate" campaign. It calls for $260 million in public and private investments
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Mark,
ReplyDeleteWhat are your feelings about where we are going and how Obama's new campaign will apply to our increasing our position in STEM education? The statistics of where we have fallen to are alarming and I sure hope that this new push is what we need to push us into changing the statistics for the future.
~Charity