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The U.S. technology skills gap : what every technology executive must know to save America's future /
Is a widening "skills gap" in science and math education threatening America's future? That is the seminal question addressed in The U.S. Technology Skills Gap, a comprehensive 104-year review of math and science education in America. Some claim this "skills gap" is "eq...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
[2013]
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| Colección: | CIO series
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
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- Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE How Did We Get Here?
- ch. 1 1941: The Subject We Love to Hate
- Math? Not for Me!
- "Minimize the Effect of Schooling"
- Young Adults with IQs of Eight-Year-Olds
- Fall Continues
- President Roosevelt Understands Science
- Opportunity Lost
- Americans Still Hate Math and Science
- ch. 2 1945: Operation Paperclip
- Nazis Hailed as "Outstanding" Scientists
- Germany's Rocket Man
- Nazis Get to von Braun
- Time Magazine Paints a Dim Picture of von Braun
- America's Best Rocket: The Bazooka
- Shipped to America
- America Had Space Technology before the Soviets
- Germany Developed the Atomic Bomb First
- ch. 3 1950: Deming Says
- Deming Has an Idea
- Lecture Series That Changed the Balance of the World Economy
- Japan Embraces, America Ignores
- Datsuns Arrive in Los Angeles
- American Business Leaders Finally Listen
- Lessons from Deming
- Can Total Quality Management Fix the American Education System?
- ch. 4 1952: Boomerang
- What It Means to Teach
- Teacher Shortage Exacerbates the Educational Challenges
- Another Problem: Crumbling Infrastructure
- Media Critiques Begin
- Back in the USSR
- Boomers Perform Poorly on SATs
- Connecting the Dots
- Boomerang Theory
- ch. 5 1962: Too Hard to Follow
- Rationale for the Lunar Landing
- Kennedy in His Own Words
- "It's Just So Darn Hard"
- Students: Math and Science Are Irrelevant
- Culture Counts
- Industry Leaders Offer Advice
- Do Something about It
- American Students Not Measuring Up
- Results, Please
- How to Do Something
- High School Seniors: No, Thank You
- Perception Is Reality: The Importance of the Guidance Counselor
- STEM Pipeline Shrinks More in Higher Education
- Putting Words in the President's Mouth
- ch. 6 1962: Empires of the Mind
- Did You Know?
- Shift Is On
- Components of Yuasa's Phenomenon
- Fast-Forward
- Yuasa's Phenomenon Arrives in America in 1920
- Youth Rules
- Look to the East?
- Three Patents to the Win
- America's Innovation Ecosystem at Risk
- Does It Work for You?
- World in 2050
- Slip Sliding Away?
- Survival Is Not Compulsory
- ch. 7 1963: SAT Down
- History of the SAT
- Asleep at the Wheel for 14 Years
- College Entrance Examination Board Responds
- More Competition for the SAT
- Why the SAT Scores Dropped
- How to Get 100 More SAT Points
- Too Much Mediocrity
- ch. 8 1976: Too Many Chiefs
- Tale of Two Documents
- Keep It Local
- Great Society Era Ushers in Federal Involvement
- ESEA: Not All Things Considered
- Teacher Unions Create the U.S. Department of Education
- Did I Really Promise That?
- President Carter's Top 10 List
- Eight Years Is Too Short
- Reagan Shifts from Compliance to Competency
- Bush Sets Voluntary Education Goals
- Other Issues Get in the Way
- Clinton Unsuccessfully Shifts Education Goals from Voluntary to Compulsory
- No Child Left Behind Ushers in Compulsory Education Compliance
- Obama Is Stymied by Gridlocked Washington
- Close Down the U.S. Department of Education
- pt. TWO And the Hits Just Keep on Coming
- Can You Hear Me Now?
- Road Trip
- Eighth-Grade Focus
- Connect the Dots
- It Takes a Village That Cares
- Warning System Works
- ch. 9 Skills Gap Warnings Begin
- 1964: The First International Mathematics Study
- 1971: The First International Science Study
- 1971: The National Education Trust Fund
- 1978: The Nation's Report Card
- 1982: The Second International Mathematics Study
- 1983: A Nation at Risk
- 1985: Global Competition: The New Reality
- 1985: Corporate Classrooms: The Learning Business
- 1986: A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century
- 1987: Workforce 2000: Work and Workers for the Twenty-first Century
- 1987: The National Science Foundation Annual Report Introduces STEM
- 1987: The Fourth R: Workforce Readiness, a Guide to Business Education Partnerships
- 1989: Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive
- ch. 10 Skills Gap Emerges
- 1990: America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages!
- 1990: The Second International Science Study
- 1990: The National Assessment of Educational Progress
- 1993: John Sculley: "America Is Resource Poor"
- 1995: The Third International Mathematics and Science Study
- Different Measurement, Improved Ranking
- 1996: The National Assessment of Educational Progress
- 1999: New World Coming: American Security in the 21 st Century
- ch. 11 Skills Gap Widens
- 2000: Ensuring a Strong U.S. Scientific, Technical, and Engineering Workforce in the 21 st Century
- 2000: Before It's Too Late
- 2000: The Programme for International Student Assessment
- 2000: The National Assessment of Educational Progress Test
- 2002: Unraveling the Teacher Shortage Problem: Teacher Retention Is the Key
- 2003: Building a Nation of Learners
- 2004: Sustaining the Nation's Innovation Ecosystem
- 2005: Losing the Competitive Advantage: The Challenge for Science and Technology in America
- 2005: The Knowledge Economy: Is the United States Losing Its Competitive Edge?
- 2005: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
- 2005: Rising above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future
- 2005: The National Assessment of Educational Progress
- 2006: Teachers and the Uncertain American Future
- 2006: The Quiet Crisis: Falling Short in Producing American Scientific and Technical. Talent
- 2007: We Are Still Losing Our Competitive Advantage: Now Is the Time to Act
- 2007: How the World's Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top
- 2007: Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education, Quality, and Workforce Demand
- 2007: Tough Choices or Tough Times
- 2007: The Role of Education Quality in Economic Growth
- 2008: Foundations for Success: The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel
- 2008: "Lessons from 40 Years of Education Reform"
- 2009: Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant: Asian Nations Set to Dominate the Clean Energy Race by Out-Investing the United States
- 2009: The CIO Executive Council's Youth and Technology Careers Survey
- 2009: The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools
- 2009: The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness
- 2009: Steady As She Goes? Three Generations of Students through the Science and Engineering Pipeline
- ch. 12 Consequences of the Skills Gap Become Apparent
- 2010: Rising above the Gathering Storm Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5
- 2010: Why So Few Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics?
- 2010: Waiting for Superman
- 2010: Education Next's Public Perception of Education Survey
- 2010: Interview with Craig Barrett
- 2010: Closing the Talent Gap: Attracting and Retaining Top-Third Graduates to Careers in Teaching
- 2011: The National Assessment of Educational Progress
- 2011: The Intel Corporation's Survey of Teens' Perceptions of Engineering
- 2011: Globally Challenged: Are U.S. Students Ready to Compete?
- 2012: How Well Are American Students Learning?
- 2012: U.S. Education Reform and National Security
- 2012: Prosperity at Risk: Findings of Harvard Business School's Survey on U.S.
- Competitiveness
- 2012: The World Economic Forum's Annual Global Competitiveness Report
- 2012: Where Will All the STEM Talent Come From?
- 2012: SAT and ACT Scores Reveal Disappointing News
- 2012: Five Misconceptions about Teaching Math and Science: American Education Has Not Declined, and Other Surprising Truths
- Long and Winding Road
- pt. THREE Let's Build Some Arks
- ch. 13 Patchworking the Tech Skills Gap Begins
- 1965: Skills USA
- 1968: The Xerox Science Consultant Program
- 1989: Women in Technology International
- 1990: Teach for America
- 1994: Tech Corps
- 1995: NetDay
- 1996: SAS Curriculum Pathways
- 1997: The Cisco Networking Academy
- 1998: I.C. Stars
- 1998: Intel Teach
- ch. 14 Pace of Remediation Work on the National Skills Gap Accelerates
- 2000: Year Up
- 2000: The Juniper Networks Foundation Fund
- 2002: Technology Goddesses
- 2002: nPower
- 2003: The Microsoft Imagine Cup
- 2004: Engineering Is Elementary
- 2004: The Junior FIRST Lego League
- 2005: Raytheon's MathMovesU
- 2005: IBM's Transition to Teaching
- 2006: The Khan Academy
- 2006: Cognizant's Maker Faire
- 2007: The National Math and Science Initiative
- 2008: AT & T Aspire
- 2008: AMD's Changing the Game
- 2009: Microsoft's TEALS
- 2009: The Salesforce.com Foundation
- 2009: DIGITS
- 2009: Change the Equation
- ch. 15 Pace of Ark Building Quickens
- 2010: The Broadcom MASTERS
- 2011: CA Technologies and the Sesame Workshop
- 2011: IBM's P-TECH
- 2012: Udacity
- 2012: CA Technologies: Tech Girls Rock
- 2012: Microsoft's Teach.org
- 2012: The Dell Education Challenge
- 2012: The Girl Scouts of America's Generation STEM: What Girls Say about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
- News Alert: More Arks Needed!
- EPILOGUE For What It's Worth
- Top Ten Recommendations for Action
- Closing Time.