Tag: STEM

There is a truism in management philosophy that “What you measure is what you get”. It sounds like we are seeing a subset of this in education. There apparently is a movement afoot to drop algebra from high school education…because…well…it’s just too darn hard…and students drop out and don’t graduate…

With all the brouhaha about declining education results, cuts to our university systems and the general disregard for science from our GOP electeds…in the shadow of the success of the New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Pluto…I have to wonder…will we have a next generation of space scientists? Will the USA…