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  • Today, President Obama announced the immediate creation of new national corps of leading math and science educators to improve education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).  The STEM Master Teacher Corps initiative aims to help schools and districts do what they haven’t traditionally done very well: broaden the reach of our best teachers.  The program has some hurdles to clear, but [...]
    Public Policy Tags: Workforce
  • Today, the President announced a $1 billion initiative to boost science, technology, engineering, and math (“STEM”) education in the country.  His plan calls for the creation of the Master Teacher Corps, which aims to hire highly qualified teachers to prepare today’s students for the 21st century economy.   If implemented, the plan would hire 2,500 teachers across the country now, and grow to 10,000 [...]
    Public Policy Tags: Workforce
  • April’s jobs report was released today and showed that, while the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent, overall economic growth was sluggish as employers across the country showed their reluctance to add to their payrolls.  Speeding up the recovery has long been a focus of policymakers, yet today’s report demonstrates that closer attention must be paid to the gaps in the skill sets of today’s workforce.  [...]
    Public Policy Tags: Workforce
  • We might end up calling last night's State of the Union address the "tech talk".  The President's speech touched on a litany of technology issues, making it sound as if he was pitching TechElect for us.  Instead of rehashing the President's speech point by point, we would like to focus on two issues he raised -STEM and immigration reform.  Both issues often receive broad, bipartisan support and are [...]
    Public Policy Tags: Workforce, Immigration
  • In the next few days, over 50 million people-nearly one quarter of our nation's population-will be streaming onto campuses across the country. Even putting aside the sheer number of students attending school, the training of the next generation of leaders should be cause for excitement about America's future. Unfortunately, based on today's realities these students are more likely to play a scientist [...]
    Public Policy Tags: Workforce
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