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The United States is no longer in the top 10 of countries for innovation and new technology. A big reason for this are cutbacks in research and development at universities. You cannot compete in the global marketplace if you don't invest in R&D.
"The U.S. Drops Out of the Top 10 in Innovation Ranking"
The U.S. fell to 11th place from ninth mainly because of an eight-spot slump in the post-secondary, or tertiary, education-efficiency category, which includes the share of new science and engineering graduates in the labor force. Value-added manufacturing also declined. Improvement in the productivity score couldn’t make up for the lost ground.
Our K-12 educational industry isn't graduating students that can hack STEM. Hardly surprising considering the degree to which our schools have been dumbed down in order to graduate everyone that crawls through the door. Let alone allowing anyone that takes air to "teach" at our schools.
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Money has been funneled from science and research depts. to open the way for feel good courses and degrees that lead nowhere. Building safe havens - building coloring rooms ect...
How is this a Republican or religious thing? We don't teach math and science with proper rigor anymore, and haven't been for decades. Did the Republicans invent common core fuzzy math? Did the Republicans lower the math and science requirements for graduation in damn near every school system in America over the last 30 years? Did Christians decide that mathematics was oppressive or that students should be promoted to higher grades and harder subjects based on age rather than mastery of prior material? No, most of the decline in American education is based on new age social justice theory replacing results based meritocracy.
We now have to import students who can do rigorous STEM work whence innovation emerges.
Republicans didn't cause our national decline in education and Catholic schools are top performers year in, year out, all the time in virtually any NAEP study, comparison, etc.
According to most conservatives, all we need as a society is a bronze-age book of mythology. Science is a vast conspiracy to undermine that book so therefore it should not be trusted. Sadly, that is where we are at in this country right now.
Well, when you teach kids that boys can be girls and girls can be boys if they feel like it, and hire professors that tell students you shouldn't learn math because ... well ... math is racist, its no wonder people turnout stupid.
How is this a Republican or religious thing? We don't teach math and science with proper rigor anymore, and haven't been for decades. Did the Republicans invent common core fuzzy math? Did the Republicans lower the math and science requirements for graduation in damn near every school system in America over the last 30 years? Did Christians decide that mathematics was oppressive or that students should be promoted to higher grades and harder subjects based on age rather than mastery of prior material? No, most of the decline in American education is based on new age social justice theory replacing results based meritocracy.
We now have to import students who can do rigorous STEM work whence innovation emerges.
Republicans didn't cause our national decline in education and Catholic schools are top performers year in, year out, all the time in virtually any NAEP study, comparison, etc.
Well, yuh not sposed to be math learnen no moh cuz math is RACIST.
Our K-12 educational industry isn't graduating students that can hack STEM. Hardly surprising considering the degree to which our schools have been dumbed down in order to graduate everyone that crawls through the door. Let alone allowing anyone that takes air to "teach" at our schools.
All the major innovation and entrepreneurial spirit exists in DEMOCRATIC/Clinton strongholds, where 80% of this countries growth exists.
Trump voters live in poor rural areas, areas dependent on natural resources and manufacturing jobs, but these jobs are not stable, and not coming back in full force.
Time to join the 21st century Trumpists, stop trying to drag the rest of the country down with you.
I think Obama telling NASA can no longer to space exploration on their own had a big deal to do with this.
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