The daughter of a GM diemaker, Barra was a math-and-science whiz in high school in Waterford, Mich.
"By the time I took a computer science class in high school, I already knew everything, " he says.
Though he was enrolled at The Bronx High School of Science, a prestigious New York City public school, attending the school required him to make the long commute to the city's northernmost borough every day.
Intel scores high, in large part for putting money into science and technology education for high school and college students and adults.
My move from medicine to teaching high school science and writing about health care has been immensely rewarding for me.
The Consumer Electronics Show may be, to quote Stephen Colbert, a "high school science fair on crank, " but it's nirvana for gadget geeks.
Lauri Lebo at Religion Dispatches has been keeping up on attempts by creationists affiliated with the Lousiana Family Forum (LFF) to interfere with the inclusion of evolutionary biology in public high school science textbooks.
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.
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.
This report, about high-school science students who busted sushi restaurants selling tilapia as white tuna, suggests that it is.
FORBES: DNA Sequencing For Fun And Profit: A Low-Cost Platform For Garage Biotech
Unlike most high-school science fair participants, they seem unaware that the point of doing experiments is to identify what actually works.
WSJ: Peter Suderman: The Lesson of State Health-Care Reforms
Wattendorf, a senior at Northern Virginia's super-selective Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, stood before prospective members of its Black Student Union in the fall and introduced himself as the club's president.
According to the American Chemical Society, nearly 100% of past winners in the prestigious Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science, and Technology (for high School students) play one or more musical instruments (The Midland Chemist (American Chemical Society) Vol. 42, No.1, Feb. 2005).
FORBES: 12 Days of Charitable Giving 2012: School of Harmony
Many of the fastest-growing occupations require strong math and science preparation, and training beyond the high school level.
In high school he excelled in science and mathematics and won a U.S. Navy scholarship to Purdue University in Indiana, enrolling in 1947.
What I did know at the age of 19 is that I had excelled in high school in math and science and at baseball outside of the classroom.
FORBES: America's Existential Peril: 29 Years Old, In Debt, and Disheartened
Of the 21 nations participating in all phases of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), American high school seniors did better than only two countries: South Africa and Cyprus.
FORBES: Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, There Goes American Educational Excellence?
Designed to spark the interest of middle and high-school girls in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects, the Women in STEM Speakers Bureau was launched by the White House Council on Women and Girls and Office of Science and Technology Policy in September of last year.
The single most important aspect of any child's education is who is standing in front of their classroom each day, instructing them and helping them learn -- whether at a young age, the basics, or math and science as they get older and into high school, and hopefully, providing more and more young people with the grades and the opportunity to seek higher education.
Our children are coming out of high school -- in some cases, they're not even graduating high school, but even if they graduate from high school -- ranked lower on math and science scores than many other advanced industrialized countries.
For example, a high school student who won a science fair made big money on Quirky for proposing a flexible power strip.
Ministry of Education and Science data for last year show 51 percent of high school graduates enrolling in college programs, twice the percentage in 1990.
FORBES: Demographic Decline and Investment Intensity in Children -- Observations on China and Japan
As noted above, U.S. 4th graders do fairly well in mathematics and science, but by the time they graduate from high school, U.S. students are nowhere near being "first in the world" in either subject.
According to the Sioux Falls Argus, this fall the rural town of Bonesteel will teach high school biology, physics and physical science via the Internet, working with other classmates to solve problems created in a series of scenarios and problems.
I'm currently reading a Physics PhD and am also working in a local high school to try to interest kids in science.
We take part in high school outreach programs where we bring in science and engineering students to spend the day here to learn about our careers.
The hobbyists who indulge in this pastime are a diverse, if almost entirely male, crowd--imagine a high-school reunion consisting of gearheads, science geeks and a sprinkling of stoners.
Perhaps as a result, computer-science tests account for just 0.69% of all high school AP tests taken.
Over the next ten years, nearly half of all new jobs will require education beyond high school, many requiring proficiency in math and science.
Proficiency scores in reading, writing, science and mathematics for American teenagers in their last year of high school all fell between 1992 and 2005.
应用推荐