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Direct linkGarrett, Joyce Lynn – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2008
The author of this article argues that, just as Americans were shocked into action, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, by strengthening STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in the educational curriculum, Americans must be shocked again. The nation must address the failure of its leaders to provide adequate funding…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education
Litowitz, Len S. – Technology Teacher, 2009
In an era when so much emphasis is being placed on the high-stakes standardized testing of fundamental subjects such as reading, writing, and math, it makes sense to demonstrate the role technology educators play in developing such fundamental knowledge and skills in youth. While the author believes that technology education contributes to the…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Innovation, Engineering, Basic Skills
Education Week, 2008
Dating back to the dawn of the Space Race, calls to improve young people's mastery of the academic material undergirding U.S. technological strength have been a recurrent refrain in American education. In the past few years, the leitmotif has grown louder, amplified by concerns about competition from well-educated yet lower-paid foreign workers…
Descriptors: Foreign Workers, Sciences, Engineering, Mathematics
Bejar, Isaac I. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
In their paper, Black and Wiliam said: "The way that processes of aggregation are carried out have profound implications for the extent to which summary judgments about individuals or institutions can be "reverse engineered" to provide information about the meanings of those judgments." The author of this article could not…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Alternative Assessment, Achievement, Engineering
Download full textThe White House, 2006
Keeping our competitive edge in the world economy requires focused policies that lay the groundwork for continued leadership in innovation, exploration, and ingenuity. America's economic strength and global leadership depend in large measure on our Nation's ability to generate and harness the latest in scientific and technological developments and…
Descriptors: Competition, Innovation, Research and Development, Scientific Research
Tate. William F., IV – SERVE Center for Continuous Improvement at UNCG, 2005
This monograph represents an effort to build upon and extend beyond the literature on school mathematics as discussed in "Mathematics and Science: Critical Filters for the Future." Three significant changes in the political and educational landscape since 1985 are discussed. The first change is the introduction of mathematics standards…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Federal Legislation, Research and Development, State Standards
