The U.S. technology skills gap : what every technology executive must know to save America's future /
Beach, Gary J., 1950-
The U.S. technology skills gap : what every technology executive must know to save America's future / Gary J. Beach. - 1 online resource - CIO series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How Did We Get Here? -- 1941: The Subject We Love to Hate -- Math? Not for Me! -- "Minimize the Effect of Schooling" -- Young Adults with IQs of Eight-Year-Olds -- Fall Continues -- President Roosevelt Understands Science -- Opportunity Lost -- Americans Still Hate Math and Science -- 1945: Operation Paperclip -- Nazis Hailed as "Outstanding" Scientists -- Germany's Rocket Man -- Nazis Get to von Braun -- Time Magazine Paints a Dim Picture of von Braun -- America's Best Rocket: The Bazooka -- Shipped to America -- America Had Space Technology before the Soviets -- Germany Developed the Atomic Bomb First -- 1950: Deming Says -- Deming Has an Idea -- Lecture Series That Changed the Balance of the World Economy -- Japan Embraces, America Ignores -- Datsuns Arrive in Los Angeles -- American Business Leaders Finally Listen -- Lessons from Deming -- Can Total Quality Management Fix the American Education System? -- 1952: Boomerang -- What It Means to Teach -- Teacher Shortage Exacerbates the Educational Challenges -- Another Problem: Crumbling Infrastructure -- Media Critiques Begin -- Back in the USSR -- Boomers Perform Poorly on SATs -- Connecting the Dots -- Boomerang Theory -- 1962: Too Hard to Follow -- Rationale for the Lunar Landing -- Kennedy in His Own Words -- "It's Just So Darn Hard" -- Students: Math and Science Are Irrelevant -- Culture Counts -- Industry Leaders Offer Advice -- Do Something about It -- American Students Not Measuring Up -- Results, Please -- How to Do Something -- High School Seniors: No, Thank You -- Perception Is Reality: The Importance of the Guidance Counselor -- STEM Pipeline Shrinks More in Higher Education -- Putting Words in the President's Mouth -- 1962: Empires of the Mind -- Did You Know? -- Shift Is On -- Components of Yuasa's Phenomenon -- Fast-Forward -- Yuasa's Phenomenon Arrives in America in 1920 -- Youth Rules -- Look to the East? -- Three Patents to the Win -- America's Innovation Ecosystem at Risk -- Does It Work for You? -- World in 2050 -- Slip Sliding Away? -- Survival Is Not Compulsory -- 1963: SAT Down -- History of the SAT -- Asleep at the Wheel for 14 Years -- College Entrance Examination Board Responds -- More Competition for the SAT -- Why the SAT Scores Dropped -- How to Get 100 More SAT Points -- Too Much Mediocrity -- 1976: Too Many Chiefs -- Tale of Two Documents -- Keep It Local -- Great Society Era Ushers in Federal Involvement -- ESEA: Not All Things Considered -- Teacher Unions Create the U.S. Department of Education -- Did I Really Promise That? -- President Carter's Top 10 List -- Eight Years Is Too Short -- Reagan Shifts from Compliance to Competency -- Bush Sets Voluntary Education Goals -- Other Issues Get in the Way -- Clinton Unsuccessfully Shifts Education Goals from Voluntary to Compulsory -- No Child Left Behind Ushers in Compulsory Education Compliance -- Obama Is Stymied by Gridlocked Washington -- Close Down the U.S. Department of Education -- And the Hits Just Keep on Coming -- Can You Hear Me Now? -- Road Trip -- Eighth-Grade Focus -- Connect the Dots -- It Takes a Village That Cares -- Warning System Works -- Skills Gap Warnings Begin -- 1964: The First International Mathematics Study -- 1971: The First International Science Study -- 1971: The National Education Trust Fund -- 1978: The Nation's Report Card -- 1982: The Second International Mathematics Study -- 1983: A Nation at Risk -- 1985: Global Competition: The New Reality -- 1985: Corporate Classrooms: The Learning Business -- 1986: A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century -- 1987: Workforce 2000: Work and Workers for the Twenty-first Century -- 1987: The National Science Foundation Annual Report Introduces STEM -- 1987: The Fourth R: Workforce Readiness, a Guide to Business Education Partnerships -- 1989: Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive -- Skills Gap Emerges -- 1990: America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages! -- 1990: The Second International Science Study -- 1990: The National Assessment of Educational Progress -- 1993: John Sculley: "America Is Resource Poor" -- 1995: The Third International Mathematics and Science Study -- Different Measurement, Improved Ranking -- 1996: The National Assessment of Educational Progress -- 1999: New World Coming: American Security in the 21 st Century -- Skills Gap Widens -- 2000: Ensuring a Strong U.S. Scientific, Technical, and Engineering Workforce in the 21 st Century -- 2000: Before It's Too Late -- 2000: The Programme for International Student Assessment -- 2000: The National Assessment of Educational Progress Test -- 2002: Unraveling the Teacher Shortage Problem: Teacher Retention Is the Key -- 2003: Building a Nation of Learners -- 2004: Sustaining the Nation's Innovation Ecosystem -- 2005: Losing the Competitive Advantage: The Challenge for Science and Technology in America -- 2005: The Knowledge Economy: Is the United States Losing Its Competitive Edge? -- 2005: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century -- 2005: Rising above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future -- 2005: The National Assessment of Educational Progress -- 2006: Teachers and the Uncertain American Future -- 2006: The Quiet Crisis: Falling Short in Producing American Scientific and Technical. Talent -- 2007: We Are Still Losing Our Competitive Advantage: Now Is the Time to Act -- 2007: How the World's Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top -- 2007: Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education, Quality, and Workforce Demand -- 2007: Tough Choices or Tough Times -- 2007: The Role of Education Quality in Economic Growth -- 2008: Foundations for Success: The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel -- 2008: "Lessons from 40 Years of Education Reform" -- 2009: Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant: Asian Nations Set to Dominate the Clean Energy Race by Out-Investing the United States -- 2009: The CIO Executive Council's Youth and Technology Careers Survey -- 2009: The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools -- 2009: The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness -- 2009: Steady As She Goes? Three Generations of Students through the Science and Engineering Pipeline -- Consequences of the Skills Gap Become Apparent -- 2010: Rising above the Gathering Storm Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5 -- 2010: Why So Few Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics? -- 2010: Waiting for Superman -- 2010: Education Next's Public Perception of Education Survey -- 2010: Interview with Craig Barrett -- 2010: Closing the Talent Gap: Attracting and Retaining Top-Third Graduates to Careers in Teaching -- 2011: The National Assessment of Educational Progress -- 2011: The Intel Corporation's Survey of Teens' Perceptions of Engineering -- 2011: Globally Challenged: Are U.S. Students Ready to Compete? -- 2012: How Well Are American Students Learning? -- 2012: U.S. Education Reform and National Security -- 2012: Prosperity at Risk: Findings of Harvard Business School's Survey on U.S. Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE ch. 1 ch. 2 ch. 3 ch. 4 ch. 5 ch. 6 ch. 7 ch. 8 pt. TWO ch. 9 ch. 10 ch. 11 ch. 12 Competitiveness -- 2012: The World Economic Forum's Annual Global Competitiveness Report -- 2012: Where Will All the STEM Talent Come From? -- 2012: SAT and ACT Scores Reveal Disappointing News -- 2012: Five Misconceptions about Teaching Math and Science: American Education Has Not Declined, and Other Surprising Truths -- Long and Winding Road -- Let's Build Some Arks -- Patchworking the Tech Skills Gap Begins -- 1965: Skills USA -- 1968: The Xerox Science Consultant Program -- 1989: Women in Technology International -- 1990: Teach for America -- 1994: Tech Corps -- 1995: NetDay -- 1996: SAS Curriculum Pathways -- 1997: The Cisco Networking Academy -- 1998: I.C. Stars -- 1998: Intel Teach -- Pace of Remediation Work on the National Skills Gap Accelerates -- 2000: Year Up -- 2000: The Juniper Networks Foundation Fund -- 2002: Technology Goddesses -- 2002: nPower -- 2003: The Microsoft Imagine Cup -- 2004: Engineering Is Elementary -- 2004: The Junior FIRST Lego League -- 2005: Raytheon's MathMovesU -- 2005: IBM's Transition to Teaching -- 2006: The Khan Academy -- 2006: Cognizant's Maker Faire -- 2007: The National Math and Science Initiative -- 2008: AT & T Aspire -- 2008: AMD's Changing the Game -- 2009: Microsoft's TEALS -- 2009: The Salesforce.com Foundation -- 2009: DIGITS -- 2009: Change the Equation -- Pace of Ark Building Quickens -- 2010: The Broadcom MASTERS -- 2011: CA Technologies and the Sesame Workshop -- 2011: IBM's P-TECH -- 2012: Udacity -- 2012: CA Technologies: Tech Girls Rock -- 2012: Microsoft's Teach.org -- 2012: The Dell Education Challenge -- 2012: The Girl Scouts of America's Generation STEM: What Girls Say about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math -- News Alert: More Arks Needed! -- EPILOGUE For What It's Worth -- Top Ten Recommendations for Action -- Closing Time. pt. THREE ch. 13 ch. 14 ch. 15
Is a widening "skills gap" in science and math education threatening America's future? That is the seminal question addressed in The U.S. Technology Skills Gap, a comprehensive 104-year review of math and science education in America. Some claim this "skills gap" is "equivalent to a permanent national recession" while others cite how the gap threatens America's future economic, workforce employability and national security. This much is sure: America's math and science skills gap is, or should be, an issue of concern for every business and information technology executive in t.
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CL0500000412 Safari Books Online A3511750-9102-4483-B934-FE555FF7AE53 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2013008870
High technology industries--United States.
Labor supply--United States.
Skilled labor--United States.
Vocational qualifications--United States.
Information technology--United States.
Science--Study and teaching--United States.
Industries de pointe--�Etats-Unis.
March�e du travail--�Etats-Unis.
Qualifications professionnelles--�Etats-Unis.
Technologie de l'information--�Etats-Unis.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Industrial Technology.
High technology industries
Information technology
Labor supply
Science--Study and teaching
Skilled labor
Vocational qualifications
United States
HC110.H53
338/.0640973
The U.S. technology skills gap : what every technology executive must know to save America's future / Gary J. Beach. - 1 online resource - CIO series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How Did We Get Here? -- 1941: The Subject We Love to Hate -- Math? Not for Me! -- "Minimize the Effect of Schooling" -- Young Adults with IQs of Eight-Year-Olds -- Fall Continues -- President Roosevelt Understands Science -- Opportunity Lost -- Americans Still Hate Math and Science -- 1945: Operation Paperclip -- Nazis Hailed as "Outstanding" Scientists -- Germany's Rocket Man -- Nazis Get to von Braun -- Time Magazine Paints a Dim Picture of von Braun -- America's Best Rocket: The Bazooka -- Shipped to America -- America Had Space Technology before the Soviets -- Germany Developed the Atomic Bomb First -- 1950: Deming Says -- Deming Has an Idea -- Lecture Series That Changed the Balance of the World Economy -- Japan Embraces, America Ignores -- Datsuns Arrive in Los Angeles -- American Business Leaders Finally Listen -- Lessons from Deming -- Can Total Quality Management Fix the American Education System? -- 1952: Boomerang -- What It Means to Teach -- Teacher Shortage Exacerbates the Educational Challenges -- Another Problem: Crumbling Infrastructure -- Media Critiques Begin -- Back in the USSR -- Boomers Perform Poorly on SATs -- Connecting the Dots -- Boomerang Theory -- 1962: Too Hard to Follow -- Rationale for the Lunar Landing -- Kennedy in His Own Words -- "It's Just So Darn Hard" -- Students: Math and Science Are Irrelevant -- Culture Counts -- Industry Leaders Offer Advice -- Do Something about It -- American Students Not Measuring Up -- Results, Please -- How to Do Something -- High School Seniors: No, Thank You -- Perception Is Reality: The Importance of the Guidance Counselor -- STEM Pipeline Shrinks More in Higher Education -- Putting Words in the President's Mouth -- 1962: Empires of the Mind -- Did You Know? -- Shift Is On -- Components of Yuasa's Phenomenon -- Fast-Forward -- Yuasa's Phenomenon Arrives in America in 1920 -- Youth Rules -- Look to the East? -- Three Patents to the Win -- America's Innovation Ecosystem at Risk -- Does It Work for You? -- World in 2050 -- Slip Sliding Away? -- Survival Is Not Compulsory -- 1963: SAT Down -- History of the SAT -- Asleep at the Wheel for 14 Years -- College Entrance Examination Board Responds -- More Competition for the SAT -- Why the SAT Scores Dropped -- How to Get 100 More SAT Points -- Too Much Mediocrity -- 1976: Too Many Chiefs -- Tale of Two Documents -- Keep It Local -- Great Society Era Ushers in Federal Involvement -- ESEA: Not All Things Considered -- Teacher Unions Create the U.S. Department of Education -- Did I Really Promise That? -- President Carter's Top 10 List -- Eight Years Is Too Short -- Reagan Shifts from Compliance to Competency -- Bush Sets Voluntary Education Goals -- Other Issues Get in the Way -- Clinton Unsuccessfully Shifts Education Goals from Voluntary to Compulsory -- No Child Left Behind Ushers in Compulsory Education Compliance -- Obama Is Stymied by Gridlocked Washington -- Close Down the U.S. Department of Education -- And the Hits Just Keep on Coming -- Can You Hear Me Now? -- Road Trip -- Eighth-Grade Focus -- Connect the Dots -- It Takes a Village That Cares -- Warning System Works -- Skills Gap Warnings Begin -- 1964: The First International Mathematics Study -- 1971: The First International Science Study -- 1971: The National Education Trust Fund -- 1978: The Nation's Report Card -- 1982: The Second International Mathematics Study -- 1983: A Nation at Risk -- 1985: Global Competition: The New Reality -- 1985: Corporate Classrooms: The Learning Business -- 1986: A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century -- 1987: Workforce 2000: Work and Workers for the Twenty-first Century -- 1987: The National Science Foundation Annual Report Introduces STEM -- 1987: The Fourth R: Workforce Readiness, a Guide to Business Education Partnerships -- 1989: Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive -- Skills Gap Emerges -- 1990: America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages! -- 1990: The Second International Science Study -- 1990: The National Assessment of Educational Progress -- 1993: John Sculley: "America Is Resource Poor" -- 1995: The Third International Mathematics and Science Study -- Different Measurement, Improved Ranking -- 1996: The National Assessment of Educational Progress -- 1999: New World Coming: American Security in the 21 st Century -- Skills Gap Widens -- 2000: Ensuring a Strong U.S. Scientific, Technical, and Engineering Workforce in the 21 st Century -- 2000: Before It's Too Late -- 2000: The Programme for International Student Assessment -- 2000: The National Assessment of Educational Progress Test -- 2002: Unraveling the Teacher Shortage Problem: Teacher Retention Is the Key -- 2003: Building a Nation of Learners -- 2004: Sustaining the Nation's Innovation Ecosystem -- 2005: Losing the Competitive Advantage: The Challenge for Science and Technology in America -- 2005: The Knowledge Economy: Is the United States Losing Its Competitive Edge? -- 2005: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century -- 2005: Rising above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future -- 2005: The National Assessment of Educational Progress -- 2006: Teachers and the Uncertain American Future -- 2006: The Quiet Crisis: Falling Short in Producing American Scientific and Technical. Talent -- 2007: We Are Still Losing Our Competitive Advantage: Now Is the Time to Act -- 2007: How the World's Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top -- 2007: Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education, Quality, and Workforce Demand -- 2007: Tough Choices or Tough Times -- 2007: The Role of Education Quality in Economic Growth -- 2008: Foundations for Success: The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel -- 2008: "Lessons from 40 Years of Education Reform" -- 2009: Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant: Asian Nations Set to Dominate the Clean Energy Race by Out-Investing the United States -- 2009: The CIO Executive Council's Youth and Technology Careers Survey -- 2009: The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools -- 2009: The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness -- 2009: Steady As She Goes? Three Generations of Students through the Science and Engineering Pipeline -- Consequences of the Skills Gap Become Apparent -- 2010: Rising above the Gathering Storm Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5 -- 2010: Why So Few Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics? -- 2010: Waiting for Superman -- 2010: Education Next's Public Perception of Education Survey -- 2010: Interview with Craig Barrett -- 2010: Closing the Talent Gap: Attracting and Retaining Top-Third Graduates to Careers in Teaching -- 2011: The National Assessment of Educational Progress -- 2011: The Intel Corporation's Survey of Teens' Perceptions of Engineering -- 2011: Globally Challenged: Are U.S. Students Ready to Compete? -- 2012: How Well Are American Students Learning? -- 2012: U.S. Education Reform and National Security -- 2012: Prosperity at Risk: Findings of Harvard Business School's Survey on U.S. Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE ch. 1 ch. 2 ch. 3 ch. 4 ch. 5 ch. 6 ch. 7 ch. 8 pt. TWO ch. 9 ch. 10 ch. 11 ch. 12 Competitiveness -- 2012: The World Economic Forum's Annual Global Competitiveness Report -- 2012: Where Will All the STEM Talent Come From? -- 2012: SAT and ACT Scores Reveal Disappointing News -- 2012: Five Misconceptions about Teaching Math and Science: American Education Has Not Declined, and Other Surprising Truths -- Long and Winding Road -- Let's Build Some Arks -- Patchworking the Tech Skills Gap Begins -- 1965: Skills USA -- 1968: The Xerox Science Consultant Program -- 1989: Women in Technology International -- 1990: Teach for America -- 1994: Tech Corps -- 1995: NetDay -- 1996: SAS Curriculum Pathways -- 1997: The Cisco Networking Academy -- 1998: I.C. Stars -- 1998: Intel Teach -- Pace of Remediation Work on the National Skills Gap Accelerates -- 2000: Year Up -- 2000: The Juniper Networks Foundation Fund -- 2002: Technology Goddesses -- 2002: nPower -- 2003: The Microsoft Imagine Cup -- 2004: Engineering Is Elementary -- 2004: The Junior FIRST Lego League -- 2005: Raytheon's MathMovesU -- 2005: IBM's Transition to Teaching -- 2006: The Khan Academy -- 2006: Cognizant's Maker Faire -- 2007: The National Math and Science Initiative -- 2008: AT & T Aspire -- 2008: AMD's Changing the Game -- 2009: Microsoft's TEALS -- 2009: The Salesforce.com Foundation -- 2009: DIGITS -- 2009: Change the Equation -- Pace of Ark Building Quickens -- 2010: The Broadcom MASTERS -- 2011: CA Technologies and the Sesame Workshop -- 2011: IBM's P-TECH -- 2012: Udacity -- 2012: CA Technologies: Tech Girls Rock -- 2012: Microsoft's Teach.org -- 2012: The Dell Education Challenge -- 2012: The Girl Scouts of America's Generation STEM: What Girls Say about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math -- News Alert: More Arks Needed! -- EPILOGUE For What It's Worth -- Top Ten Recommendations for Action -- Closing Time. pt. THREE ch. 13 ch. 14 ch. 15
Is a widening "skills gap" in science and math education threatening America's future? That is the seminal question addressed in The U.S. Technology Skills Gap, a comprehensive 104-year review of math and science education in America. Some claim this "skills gap" is "equivalent to a permanent national recession" while others cite how the gap threatens America's future economic, workforce employability and national security. This much is sure: America's math and science skills gap is, or should be, an issue of concern for every business and information technology executive in t.
9781118660478 1118660471 9781118660447 1118660447 9781118660515 111866051X 9781118680704 1118680707 9781118792322 1118792327 1299759777 9781299759770 1118477995 9781118477991
EB00067080 Recorded Books
CL0500000412 Safari Books Online A3511750-9102-4483-B934-FE555FF7AE53 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2013008870
High technology industries--United States.
Labor supply--United States.
Skilled labor--United States.
Vocational qualifications--United States.
Information technology--United States.
Science--Study and teaching--United States.
Industries de pointe--�Etats-Unis.
March�e du travail--�Etats-Unis.
Qualifications professionnelles--�Etats-Unis.
Technologie de l'information--�Etats-Unis.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Industrial Technology.
High technology industries
Information technology
Labor supply
Science--Study and teaching
Skilled labor
Vocational qualifications
United States
HC110.H53
338/.0640973
