Abstract
EDUCATION IN SCIENCE, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is essential to keeping a nation competitive. Judging by global math and science rankings, however, U.S. students are falling behind their international peers, and that has many people—including those in President Barack Obama’s Administration—worried about the nation’s ability to remain the world’s technology leader. “The nation that out-educates us today is going to out-compete us tomorrow,” Obama said on Jan. 6 when he announced an expansion of his nearly two-month-old Educate to Innovate campaign, which aims to restore American students to the front of the global math and science pack over the next decade. “To continue to cede our leadership in education is to cede our position in the world,” he said. Educate to Innovate was launched in November 2009 and relies on public-private partnerships to improve STEM education (C&EN, Nov. 30, 2009, page 9). Initially valued at more than $250 million over the next decade, ...
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