Saturday, November 28, 2009
The Next Generation of Innovators
The White House: "President Obama today helped launch a new campaign, “Educate to Innovate,” designed to energize and excite America’s students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). It builds on the President’s pledge that he would use his position to help encourage students to study and consider careers in science, engineering, technology, and innovation—fields upon which America’s future depends—and elevate those students from the middle to the top of the pack worldwide."
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This is great, I'm really excited to see that Obama is following through with the promises he made in his inaugural speech, and that he is working with the younger generation of this country to get them not only motivated but excited to learn about science and innovation. If this generation has a motivational figure like the President, they will be eager to push themselves. If they continue to receive this positive encouragement, they won't restrict themselves. I really hope that the President will give more kids the opportunity to present their innovations to him, that would give them great incentive to produce new and fascinating work.
Our country has needed to do something about our performance in science and math for some time now, and I'm glad that Obama is working on that issue. From reading parts of Obama's speech, one can see that the role of parents in their children's education is important, and in general it seems as if parents are pressuring teachers too much to give students good grades, instead of pressuring/guiding their children to work harder to get the grades.
Looking at Obama's plan, he is going to have states compete for the funding, which in some ways sounds like a good idea, but could also end up like No Child Left Behind. However, the important difference between Obama's Educate to Innovation Campaign and NCLB is that Obama has funding and the backing of companies. Even though Obama's plan has a specific goal of improving math and science education, hopefully it will help improve education overall in the US.
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