Well, now we rank 21st in science education in the world, and we rank 25th in math education in the world.
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Today, we are launching the "Educate to Innovate" campaign, a nationwide effort to help reach the goal this administration has set: moving to the top in science and math education in the next decade.
And while the U.S. received high honors in some areas--first, for instance, in research collaboration between businesses and universities and third in number of patents per capita--it ranked 48th in science and math education, 53rd in the burden of government regulation and 23rd in Internet bandwidth.
If we do early childhood education, if we focus on teacher training, if we invest in math and science education, which is vital -- and we're falling behind other countries on that front -- then I actually feel pretty confident that we can out-compete any country in the world.
On the other hand, a discussion with a group of tenth-graders would probably quickly generate a list of important forces such as immigration reform, changes in science and math education, and a simplified US tax code might have a bearing on how the world shapes up in the next few decades.
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That is why it is so essential that we make investments in math and science education now.
The United States, a nation that has always led the way in innovation, is now being outpaced in math and science education.
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And that's why I'm committed to moving our country from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math education over the next decade.
And that's why my administration has set a clear goal: to move from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math education over the next decade.
That's why we launched the "Educate to Innovate" campaign -- a nationwide effort by citizens, non-for-profits, universities, and companies from across America to help us move to the top of the pack in math and science education.
The interagency team could, for instance, recommend sensible reforms to our high-skilled immigration policy, improvements in intellectual-property law, better-designed grant programs that push innovative ideas from universities into companies, regulatory reform around the approval of drugs and medical devices, and policies to sustain a robust venture-capital industry and investments in science and math education.
With the U.S. still behind much of the world in education, especially in science and math, there will continue to be investment in education to help the U.S. compete.
The really basic education in math, science, and engineering is extendable and lasts much longer than 5-10 years.
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And that's why education in math and science is so important.
Founded by computer scientist and Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun, tech startup Udacity has built an entire business model around the concept of free education in math, science and technology.
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So, yes, improving education in math and science is about producing engineers and researchers and scientists and innovators who are going to help transform our economy and our lives for the better.
The U.S. also scored rather poorly in quality of math and science education, rating no. 52 worldwide.
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Rafael, who has been profoundly deaf since infancy, creates awareness about disability by focusing on ability as he inspires young people to pursue education in science and math.
We lag behind other nations in the quality of our math and science education.
This adds to anxiety among industry professionals and policy leaders that the U.S. could fall behind other countries in innovation if it doesn't foster education in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).
In education, there are areas like math and engineering where women are vastly outnumbered by their male counterparts.
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After all, there is more to the education experience than simply sitting together in math class.
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And I want to thank Intel for leading the way, because they're investing in startups, they're supporting science and math education, they're helping to train new engineers.
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She then hopes to travel the U.S. encouraging kids to pursue education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
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For many years, our national commitment to education--particularly in the areas of math and science--has lagged behind what is needed to maintain and expand our global leadership in innovation.
Whenever you hear a snotty European presenting his stereotypes about Americans, he will often describe them as "unintellectual, " "uneducated, " and "poor in math, " because, unlike European schooling, American education is not based on equation drills and memorization.
Schools across the nation are in need of a diverse set of talented teachers, especially in our big cities and rural areas, and especially in the areas of Math, Science, Technology, Special Education, and English Language Learning.
Over the next ten years, nearly half of all new jobs will require education beyond high school, many requiring proficiency in math and science.
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