tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post1223967592022036524..comments2023-07-03T05:58:37.124-07:00Comments on THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: A national ed policy trick?The Perimeter Primatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619173438763495716noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-80554698829709502122012-08-27T17:30:52.526-07:002012-08-27T17:30:52.526-07:00Bloomberg Businessweek article can currently be fo...Bloomberg Businessweek article can currently be found at http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2007-10-26/the-science-education-mythbusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-adviceThe Perimeter Primatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12619173438763495716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-2986168951935634392012-04-15T09:32:34.576-07:002012-04-15T09:32:34.576-07:00http://mobile.businessweek.com/technology/content/...http://mobile.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2011/tc20110112_006501.htm<br /><br />"U.S. Schools Are Still Ahead—Way Ahead." By Vivek Wadhwa in Businessweek, 1/12/2011<br /><br />America has an inferiority complex about its education system. You hear the sirens every year, when the OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) releases its annual test results. Finland, South Korea, and Singapore usually come out on top; we start blaming our K-12 teachers for not teaching enough mathematics and science; we begin worrying about the millions of engineers and scientists China and India graduate...<br /><br />My research team at Duke looked in depth at the engineering education of China and India. We documented that these countries now graduate four to seven times as many engineers as does the U.S.The quality of these engineers, however, is so poor that most are not fit to work as engineers; their system of rote learning handicaps those who do get jobs, so it takes two to three years for them to achieve the same productivity as fresh American graduates.As a result, significant proportions of China's engineering graduates end up working on factory floors and Indian industry has to spend large sums of money retraining its employees. After four or five years in the workforce, Indians do become innovative and produce, overall, at the same quality as Americans, but they lose a valuable two to three years in their retraining...<br /><br />But let's get over our inferiority complex. America is second to none. Rather than in mastery of facts learned by rote and great numbers of accomplished martinets, its strength lies in the diversity and innovation that arise in an open, creative society.The Perimeter Primatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12619173438763495716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-69198776743021713452011-10-24T11:30:17.538-07:002011-10-24T11:30:17.538-07:00More:
"The Science Education Myth; Forget th...More:<br /><br />"The Science Education Myth; Forget the conventional wisdom. U.S. schools are turning out more capable science and engineering grads than the job market can support." Bloomberg Businessweek, 10/26/2007<br /><br /><br />Introduction: <br /><br />Political leaders, tech executives, and academics often claim that the U.S. is falling behind in math and science education. They cite poor test results, declining international rankings, and decreasing enrollment in the hard sciences. They urge us to improve our education system and to graduate more engineers and scientists to keep pace with countries such as India and China.<br /><br />Yet a new report by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, tells a different story. The report disproves many confident pronouncements about the alleged weaknesses and failures of the U.S. education system. This data will certainly be examined by both sides in the debate over highly skilled workers and immigration (BusinessWeek.com, 10/10/07). The argument by Microsoft (MSFT), Google (GOOG), Intel (INTC), and others is that there are not enough tech workers in the U.S.<br /><br />The authors of the report, the Urban Institute's Hal Salzman and Georgetown University professor Lindsay Lowell, show that math, science, and reading test scores at the primary and secondary level have increased over the past two decades, and U.S. students are now close to the top of international rankings. Perhaps just as surprising, the report finds that our education system actually produces more science and engineering graduates than the market demands...<br /><br />Read the rest:<br /><br />http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/oct2007/sb20071025_827398.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_top+storyThe Perimeter Primatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12619173438763495716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-84233066287457585052010-02-28T14:26:46.380-08:002010-02-28T14:26:46.380-08:00Thanks for posting this. I had no idea.Thanks for posting this. I had no idea.NYC Educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12188066345722781723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-16252308502081423532010-02-25T17:50:37.934-08:002010-02-25T17:50:37.934-08:00Someone at the Broad Foundation was Googling "...Someone at the Broad Foundation was Googling "Eli Broad Oakland" this afternoon, and then made a visit to my blog. Think they're reading Ravitch's book? The part about Eli Broad and Oakland runs from 213 to 215.<br /><br />Referring URL: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=strict&q=Eli Broad Oakland&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=<br /> <br />February 25, 2010 <br />5:09 PM <br />IP: 65.214.152.90 (mail.broadfoundation.org) <br />Los Angeles, CA, United States Windows XP Internet Explorer 7.0The Perimeter Primatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12619173438763495716noreply@blogger.com