More Scientists and Mathematicians

Following up on my award-winning coverage about the lack of scientists being produced by American schools, an astute reader led me to this article.

The Business Roundtable has joined the list of groups that are calling attention to this very serious problem. They, however, have supplemented their moaning with some action.

The action proposed has five parts. All are described in the article, but two of the five are interesting enough to summarize here:
"Upgrading elementary and secondary teaching in math and science to foster higher student achievement": Finally, it appears that someone recognized the true source of the problem. Unfortunately, math and science are not the only fields that need more funding in elementary and secondary education -- every field needs that.

"Reforming visa and immigration policies to enable the U.S. to attract and retain top science, technology, engineering and math students from around the world to study and stay to work in the U.S.": Holy cow! Someone who actually realizes that people in other countries may be able to help America! Right now the math and science education available in India and China are far superior to America at the elementary and secondary level. So, why would we turn away those people who have helped to perfect that system when ours is in desperate need for help?

The rest of the article is very interesting and I recommend that you read it. Feel free to leave comments.