President Obama wants students to improve their math and science skills, he said November 23. President Obama said the key to meeting the world’s greatest challenges “will be reaffirming and strengthening America’s role as the world’s engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation. And that leadership tomorrow depends on how we educate our students today.”
American 15-year-olds rank 21st in science and 25th in math when compared to their peers around the world, and the administration seeks to improve those numbers by providing incentives to students and schools to strengthen their skills. Obama announced the launch of Educate to Innovate, an initiative in which private companies have contributed more than $260 million towards education efforts in these fields.
Obama also announced a new White House initiative: a science fair. Winners of national competitions in science and technology will be invited to the White House to show off their works.
“You know, if you win the NCAA championships, you come to the White House,” Obama said. “Well, if you’re a young person and you’ve produced the best experiment or design, the best hardware or software, you ought to be recognized for that achievement too.”
Traditionally we taught are children through storytelling and pouring our lives into them. More and more it feels like we build a world where children are not welcome. Communities that do not leave a wild place for them to play in. No places off the map – I fear that the loss of these wild places has had far more deadening effect on the american psych then any other thing and that no contest can hope to replace it. Once a creative mind is penned in it has terrible time freeing it’s self.
Good job mr. president Obama and God bless you and your good family .
It’s good to have a president who talks postive about our youth and students .
great Job well done mr. obama
well Fox news and their neo-nazi buddies and the right wing zionist Israeli’s always FAIL when they attack our good president Obama.
I pray that Obama will always WIN over his enemies
great initiative by any prez of u.s.
thanks for it.
Great innovation president, I salute you
Steve
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We need to catch up with other countries in science education and innovation. Nice job Mr. President
Harold
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very useful post. I would love to follow you on twitter. By the way, did you guys learn that some Iranian hacker had hacked twitter yesterday.
Innovation is the key to bring america and the rest of the world out of this recession and into prosperity . Innovation creates real jobs for real people , not some money grabbing investment bankers on wall street.
Good work.
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Good Job Mr. President