This thought-provoking volume tells the story of how America has fallen behind in science and technology education and looks at the role technology leaders must play to help our nation regain its competitive edge and international leadership role. Original.
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Is a widening “skills gap” in science and matheducation threatening America’s future? That is the seminalquestion addressed in The U.S. Technology Skills Gap, acomprehensive 104-year review of math and science education inAmerica. Some claim this “skills gap” is“equivalent to a permanent national recession” whileothers cite how the gap threatens America’s future economic,workforce employability and national security. This much is sure: America’s math and science skills gapis, or should be, an issue of concern for every business andinformation technology executive in the United States and TheU.S Technology Skills Gap is the how-to-get involved guidebookfor those executives laying out in a compelling chronologicformat: The history of the science and math skills gap in AmericaExplanation of why decades of astute warnings were ignoredInspiring examples of private company efforts to supplementpublic educationA pragmatic 10-step action plan designed to solve theproblemAnd a tantalizing theory of an obscure Japanese physicist thatsuggests America’s days as the global scientific leader arenumberedEngaging and indispensable, The U.S. Technology SkillsGap is essential reading for those eager to see America remaina relevant global power in innovation and invention in the yearsahead.
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