Casio has contributed to math education around the world by developing advanced calculators that make it easier to learn.
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Through these efforts, we're going to expand the scope and scale of science and math education all across America.
Well, now we rank 21st in science education in the world, and we rank 25th in math education in the world.
As all of you know, my administration has put a big focus on improving science and technology, engineering and math education.
Products in the series have earned a strong reputation as graphing scientific calculators among both students and instructors involved in math education.
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Sure, technology may seem like an obvious fit for math education.
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 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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Why buy a science lecture when you can download a syllabus from NASA, the Discovery Channel or PBS for free, or plug into Swarthmore College's math education library?
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.
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.
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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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.
Currently, Causecast is partnering with the White House to bring more corporate philanthropy and volunteers to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education for young women and girls.
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Creating companies and growing industries that generate jobs, demands exponentially more entrepreneurs and workers who have STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education, high-level training and the corresponding skills to perform in a technology-driven world.
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He and his wife, Amy Mickelson, launched the Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy in 2005 and have testified before the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee about the importance of math and science education.
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.
To address this, last year the Administration launched a new, national effort to improve STEM education, focused on building public-private partnerships to help America advance through math and science education.
We lag behind other nations in the quality of our math and science education.
The U.S. also scored rather poorly in quality of math and science education, rating no. 52 worldwide.
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That is why it is so essential that we make investments in math and science education now.
First, we do not pay enough to consistently draw the best science, math and special education instructors.
The quality of our math and science education lags behind many other nations.
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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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Mohamed's achievement is particularly impressive as Egypt's math and science education came 125th out of 139 nations in a World Economic Forum survey.
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Men (hire, fund, promote themselves), other women and minorities (jealousy, competition, insecurity) and the system (no math or science education, interest, encouragement) are oft cited for the lackluster numbers.
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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 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.
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