[Cincinatus' Wife]

He spoke of the necessity of keeping students interested and engaged, particularly in math and science. Practical applications of science and technology can help get young students excited about STEM courses and motivate them to take the classes that will give them a good foundation in math and science for college, he said.

When you do exciting things in space, you don't have to work so hard to motivate. A return to the Moon to learn to use its resources, opens the path to true space travel and that vision ignites the imagination and the quest for education.

A cry in the black education wilderness

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A golden frontier***We should return to the moon. With such a goal, we will inspire our youth with a challenging task, develop resources of enormous commercial value and be more secure with routine access to any location in Earth-moon space. A lunar return will teach us about our planetary origins and open up new and exciting scientific possibilities. A return to the moon is not a repeat of the Apollo experience. When we went to the moon 30 years ago, it was to demonstrate that we could do it. When we return there, it will be to use the valuable and unique resources of the moon to open the space frontier. ***

[Glenn]

He spoke of the necessity of keeping students interested and engaged, particularly in math and science.

Those are code words for keeping kids "entertained". Math and science challenges yield the rewards of a job well done. Not in most teachers scope, I'm afraid.

[Captainpaintball]

Don't worry, we'll get them...in the form of Chinese "asylum seekers", Arab "students," and Russian nationals. Any and all, except for American "kidz."

[Chris Talk]

Our dumb, dumbed down public schools cannot even maintain the level of competency that they did 50 years ago, or ten years ago for that matter. No hoper there.

Only hope is to import more and more Chinese and Japanese.

Since us white "racists" aren't having (m)any kids, let the other groups all battle each other then over who owes who the reparations and who is to be guilt-ridden, and who gets the affirmative action and civil rights then.

[KantianBurke]

"We need to change our mindset from consumer to producer, or we will be relegated to service jobs," he said.

[AmericanVictory]

In order to do something about it, we'd have to exclude teachers of math and science from contact with the teachers' unions and hire them from outside the educratic establishment so that they were responsive to parents.

[KangarooJacqui]

Heck, I was always INTERESTED in math and science, I just wasn't GOOD enough at either to enter those senior streams at high school...

[wideminded]

A corrosive anti-intellectual culture exists in many American schools in which interest in math and science is considered "un-cool" and those who display interest in these subjects are derided as "nerds". Nothing coming out of Hollywood or shown on TV opposes this trend. It will continue to be hard to find students interested in math and science until this changes.

[I_dmc]

Our children face a future where they'll have the choice of paying 85% of their incomes in taxes to support the welfare state (if they're good boys and girls), or being one of the growing number of prison slaves, which will take over manufacturing in this country (if they're not good boys and girls). Now how interested in an education are they going to be, looking at that future?

[Capitalism2003]

2x + 3y = zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Piquaboy]

We really need teachers who are interested in teaching something besides how to put on a condom. Get rid of the NEA!

[BoozeHag]

Every field of study turns mathematical in the end.

[unibrowshift9b20]

Sign me up NASA!