Contributed by: filbert Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 10:07 AM CST
Via Instapundit[*1] , this from Popular Mechanics[*2] :
Nearly three out of four students surveyed in the annual Lemelson-MIT Invention Index[*3] think high-tech inventions can help solve issues such as climate change and natural-resource depletion within the next 10 years—and 64 percent of them think they could come up with the a-ha moment themselves, compared to 38 percent of adults. The problem? A majority of United States teens say their science education is lacking and that they aren’t prepared to pursue careers in engineering and technology.
This is really, really, really bad. And it’s the fault of the Education Industry…the NEA, the Department of Education, and the rest.