Gates wants to see more funding for a National Science Foundation program for math, science and engineering graduates students, and he suggested that at the high school level, math and science teachers should be paid more.
Also the National Math and Science Institute, the military, and major companies are working together all across the country to offer math and science Advanced Placement courses to high schools with large numbers of military students, including right here in Tidewater -- the Tidewater area.
To bring more educators into the classroom, the National Math and Science Initiative is working with Texas Instruments and the Dell Foundation to prepare almost 5, 000 new math and science teachers in the next five years -- through a program that allows young people to earn teaching certificates and science degrees at the same time.
Speaking at the headquarters of the 3M Company, which makes products ranging from post-it notes to high-tech fuels cell components, he called for tax credits for business research, increased money for federal science programs, and he talked about the need to improve math and science skills of American high school students.
But I'm not so thrilled that Neva has absorbed our aversion to math and science.
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We use to be at the top in terms of math and science performance.
We lag behind other nations in the quality of our math and science education.
But when it comes to math and science, American students are far from world domination.
If they got a degree in math or science, they can probably get a job.
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Sesame Street has begun a two-year initiative to teach young kids about math and science.
So help me recruit 100, 000 new math and science teachers in the next 10 years.
This is likely due to the arcane, complex math and science principals that inform his work.
In 2000, the self-described math and science geek arrived with a scholarship at Worcester, Mass.
At the 5th grade level, girls routinely outperform boys in every subject, including math and science.
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Our K-12 system no longer educates our children well enough in math, science and engineering.
We have more college degrees but a general decline in math and science scores.
They say, oh, the reason I'm studying math and science is there's a practical outcome here.
So we've seen already gains in math and science in many of these schools.
This is especially crippling in math and science--two fields critical to future economic development.
Help me recruit 100, 000 math and science teachers within 10 years and improve early-childhood education.
Now, we are actually -- unfortunately, our students are falling behind in math and science, internationally.
Schools still require a modicum of Math and Science, but not enough to meet todays employment demands.
Students there have achieved some of the highest test scores in the world in math and science.
Focusing away from it is far more likely to pull students away from math and science permanently.
They want their students learning everything -- math, science, foreign languages -- all as soon as possible.
And in this competition, producing the most innovative programs in math and science will be an advantage.
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.
And so they started educating their children earlier and longer, with greater emphasis on math and science.
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Too many kids are going to be ranking too low on international standards on math and science.
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