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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781118660478 , 1118660471 , 9781118660447 , 1118660447 , 9781118660515 , 111866051X , 9781118680704 , 1118680707 , 9781118792322 , 1118792327 , 1299759777 , 9781299759770 , 1118477995 , 9781118477991

Series Statement: CIO series

Content: 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 "equivalent to a permanent national recession" while others cite how the gap threatens America's future economic, workforce employability and national security. This much is sure: America's math and science skills gap is, or should be, an issue of concern for every business and information technology executive in t.

Note: How Did We Get Here? -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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? -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , Let's Build Some Arks -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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.

Additional Edition: Print version: Beach, Gary J., 1950- U.S. technology skills gap. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2013] ISBN 9781118477991

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books.

URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118680704

URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118680704

URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118680704

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Series Statement: Wiley CIO series

Content: 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 "equivalent to a permanent national recession" while others cite how the gap threatens America's future economic, workforce employability and national security. This much is sure: America's math and science skills gap is, or should be, an issue of concern for every business and information technology executive in t

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DOI: 10.1002/9781118680704

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781118660478 , 1118660471 , 9781118660447 , 1118660447 , 9781118660515 , 111866051X , 9781118680704 , 1118680707 , 9781118792322 , 1118792327 , 1299759777 , 9781299759770 , 1118477995 , 9781118477991

Content: 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 "equivalent to a permanent national recession" while others cite how the gap threatens America's future economic, workforce employability and national security. This much is sure: America's math and science skills gap is, or should be, an issue of concern for every business and information technology executive in t.

Note: How Did We Get Here? -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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? -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , Let's Build Some Arks -- , 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 -- , 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 -- , 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.

Additional Edition: Print version: Beach, Gary J., 1950- U.S. technology skills gap. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2013] ISBN 9781118477991

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books. ; Electronic books.

URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118680704