The STEM Crisis Is a Myth. You must have seen the warning a thousand times: Too few young people study scientific or technical subjects, businesses can’t find enough workers in those fields, and the country’s competitive edge is threatened.
It pretty much doesn’t matter what country you’re talking about—the United States is facing this crisis, as is Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, China, Brazil, South Africa, Singapore, India…the list goes on. In many of these countries, the predicted shortfall of STEM (short for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) workers is supposed to number in the hundreds of thousands or even the millions. A 2012 report by President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, for instance, stated that over the next decade, 1 million additional STEM graduates will be needed.
In the U.K., the Royal Academy of Engineering reported last year that the nation will have to graduate 100 000 STEM majors every year until 2020 just to stay even with demand. Heather B. Tackling the Roots of Rape. A TED Talk That Might Turn Every Man Who Watches It Into A Feminist? It's Pretty Fantastic. What parents really think about school reform. School reformers like to talk about giving parents “choices” in public education because that’s what parents want.
But a new national survey says that most parents with students in public schools want something different. The two big questions are: What do and don’t parents want? And do reformers care what parents want when it turns out parents don’t actually want what they are offering? The poll, commissioned by the American Federation of Teachers and conducted by Hart Research Associates, says that most parents want strong neighborhood schools — not choices of schools for their children to attend. They don’t want public money diverted to private-school vouchers, or low-performing schools to be closed, or resources being taken away from traditional public schools to be used for public charter schools, the poll says.
*Fifty-eight percent of parents polled said they view public schools as the single most important institution for the future of their community and of their nation. ‘They could have killed me very easily’: One Colombian mayor’s fight against homicide. Cali, Colombia (Courtesy of Harold Pollack) South and Central America account for roughly one-third of the world's murders.
I spent last week in Cali, Colombia, attending a World Bank meeting on youth violence, which explored related issues. Illegal street art calls out owners of Baltimore's vacant properties. Understanding Out-of-Wedlock Births in Black America - Ta-Nehisi Coates. White Student Union (Documentary) ~ The Documentary Source. Matthew Heimbach insists he's not a racist.
This comes as a surprise to his fellow students at Towson University, in the suburbs of Baltimore, where Matthew has formed a group called the White Student Union that advocates for "persons of European heritage"—what most of us call "white people. " It also comes as a surprise to the African American students who feel targeted by the night patrols the senior history major began conducting in March. Defining My Dyslexia. Photo SAN FRANCISCO — I STARTED cataloging insults in the second grade.
Notable put-downs heard outside my special-ed classroom included “dimwinky,” “retardochuckles” and “the meat in the sandwich of stupid.” Finding Time and Money to Cook. To the Editor: In “Pay People to Cook at Home” (Op-Ed, May 11), Kristin Wartman poses two compelling questions: Where can people find the money to buy fresh foods, and how can they find the time to cook them?
Perhaps the answer to both lies in teaching children starting at an early age how to hunt and gather food within the context of what is available in the 21st century. Procuring and preparing food in a cost-effective and time-efficient manner, including use of carefully chosen “processed” foods (frozen vegetables, unflavored yogurt), can cut costs and preparation time without diminishing nutritional quality or adding unwanted ingredients to the diet. Perhaps the time has come to take the long-term view rather than the short term. ALICE H. The writer is a professor of nutrition science and policy at Tufts University. Harvard Students Demand Investigation Into Heritage Researcher’s Immigrant IQ Dissertation. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
Mark Zuckerberg's New Political Group Spending Big On Ads Supporting Keystone XL And Oil Drilling. By Josh Israel and Judd Legum "Mark Zuckerberg’s New Political Group Spending Big On Ads Supporting Keystone XL And Oil Drilling" Credit: Guillaume Paumier Mark Zuckerberg’s new political group, which bills itself as a bipartisan entity dedicated to passing immigration reform, has spent considerable resources on ads advocating a host of anti-environmental causes — including driling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and constructing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Using Walls to Talk Back to Unwelcome 'Compliments' Robert Stolarik for The New York TimesPosters on a wall on Tompkins Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, try to make the point that some comments to women aren’t welcome.
