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...just love...” Wheeler trails off, rethinking his word choice. “I guess I don’t really love math and economics, but I figure it would be a good degree to have once I get out of here...
...crisis. We still lead the world in electronics, pharmaceuticals and food productivity because of the huge amount of R&D invested over 30 or 40 years. But that's coming to an end. The single biggest risk to the economic prosperity of the U.S. today is education, specifically math, science and engineering education. Also, federal funding for the physical sciences, research needed to innovate new technologies and new products, has been flat for 30 years, while funding for life sciences has gone up threefold. We're more interested in extending our lives. But the reality is that what has kept...
...Math, Science and Women...
Thank you for addressing the issue of brain differences and women's performance in the fields of science and math. It should be obvious that we need to change the presumptuous opinion that girls are not interested in science and math. That prejudice still exists throughout the Western world, manifesting itself as girls and boys grow up and resulting in less interest in science among women. I had an unusual experience in that all but one of my math and science teachers from kindergarten through high school were women. They provided direct evidence to me that women could excel...
Ashley Lajeunesse was doing math homework in study hall when she heard the first shotgun blast. She thought it was a student dropping a stack of textbooks. Then came another bang. Then another. The other students in the room looked up in sudden, knowing panic. No one could speak. The teacher in charge, Neva Rogers, walked to the door, turned the lock and shut off the lights. She too sensed what was happening. A gunman was in the school, and he was heading their...