White House Begins Campaign to Promote Science and Math Education
To improve science and mathematics education for American children, the White House is recruiting Elmo and Big Bird, video game programmers and thousands of scientists.
2. Comment #434394 by alessamendes on November 24, 2009 at 3:52 am
3. Comment #434398 by NewEnglandBob on November 24, 2009 at 4:12 am
5. Comment #434400 by anthonzi on November 24, 2009 at 4:33 am
7. Comment #434407 by lastgreekstanding on November 24, 2009 at 5:23 am
Wut about cookie monster?
8. Comment #434413 by jonjermey on November 24, 2009 at 6:30 am
"So, what's the story with "Bert and Ernie"? Are they or aren't they?"9. Comment #434416 by lastgreekstanding on November 24, 2009 at 6:44 am
"So, what's the story with "Bert and Ernie"? Are they or aren't they?"
Don't ask, don't tell...
10. Comment #434418 by megacephalanthropus on November 24, 2009 at 6:47 am
Elmo wants to find out more about the origin of species by means of natural selection!12. Comment #434441 by PMartin on November 24, 2009 at 9:03 am
Wow. This must be - oh, it's on the tip of my tongue - ah! I remember. LEADERSHIP.13. Comment #434451 by cyberguy on November 24, 2009 at 10:35 am
14. Comment #434454 by Aztek on November 24, 2009 at 10:54 am
15. Comment #434492 by Bweahns on November 24, 2009 at 2:25 pm
16. Comment #434499 by aquilacane on November 24, 2009 at 2:47 pm
17. Comment #434503 by Meph on November 24, 2009 at 2:52 pm
18. Comment #434505 by SaintStephen on November 24, 2009 at 2:59 pm
“Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models, and here at the White House, we’re going to lead by example. We’re going to show young people how cool science can be.”
19. Comment #434541 by bethe123 on November 24, 2009 at 4:42 pm
20. Comment #434553 by DoobyTheCat on November 24, 2009 at 5:19 pm
21. Comment #434554 by Bonzai on November 24, 2009 at 5:22 pm
22. Comment #434585 by zengardener on November 24, 2009 at 6:36 pm
23. Comment #434626 by malleron on November 24, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Promoting science and math education won't do squat to improve anything unless Obama also:24. Comment #434629 by righton on November 24, 2009 at 8:48 pm
malleron,25. Comment #434642 by root2squared on November 24, 2009 at 9:46 pm
In Japan CEO's in car companies are engineers, here they are MBA's.
26. Comment #434656 by hiraethog on November 24, 2009 at 10:17 pm
'Math' will never sound right to me. As an Englishman, it should be Maths not Math!.27. Comment #434666 by blitz442 on November 24, 2009 at 10:35 pm
BonzaiIn Japan CEO's in car companies are engineers, here they are MBA's.
28. Comment #434673 by blitz442 on November 24, 2009 at 10:57 pm
25. Comment #434642 by root2squared29. Comment #434682 by blitz442 on November 24, 2009 at 11:15 pm
15. Comment #434492 by BweahnsElmo is red, who else is read (sic)? Oh that's right, Communists.
30. Comment #434748 by njwong on November 25, 2009 at 3:16 am
The interplay of four factors sounded the death knell for the communist system.
Politically, communism was inhuman.
As an economic system, it was inefficient.
An inhuman and inefficient system set in motion centrifugal forces leading to social instability.
Unstable societies became vulnerable to external challenges.
In his book, “The Economics Of Shortages”, Hungarian economist Janos Kornai argued that the chronic shortages were the result of systemic flaws.
In a “shortage economy” — a term coined by Kornai — long queues to buy limited amounts of food and other necessities are the order of the day. If the item is sold out, the consumer is faced with two options: buy something that is close to what he wants (“forced substitutions”); or postpone the purchase until the item appears (“forced savings”).
An economic system that fails to satisfy the people's demand for daily necessities and to produce sufficient resources for the government is bound to collapse.
31. Comment #434972 by Lucas on November 25, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Shows such as Sesame Street are part of the problem. There's a whole world out there to explore and discover, and we're told to sit a child in front of TV to learn?Having grown up watching Sesame Street, and having done some work with the children's educational television industry, might I humbly suggest that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Please do some research on the topic before making such ignorant blanket statements. Your impulse against watching TV is understandable, but in misunderstanding the role of Sesame Street you denigrate all the hard work and all the amazing achievements of thousands of talented people over the past 40 years, Joan Ganz Cooney and Jim Henson among them.
32. Comment #435284 by tlb81 on November 25, 2009 at 11:52 pm
33. Comment #435328 by lastgreekstanding on November 26, 2009 at 2:03 am
Lucas:
Having grown up watching Sesame Street . . .
. . . and having done some work with the children's educational television industry, might I humbly suggest that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about
34. Comment #435335 by Sciros on November 26, 2009 at 2:54 am
You're the comic guy, right?Lucas is the comic guy? I thought I was the comic guy :-(
35. Comment #435336 by lastgreekstanding on November 26, 2009 at 3:02 am
Lucas is the comic guy? I thought I was the comic guy :-(
36. Comment #435338 by lastgreekstanding on November 26, 2009 at 3:09 am
Hey, Sciros, I only caught the first two paragraphs of your post---I guess you added the other paragraphs later.37. Comment #435672 by lastgreekstanding on November 27, 2009 at 7:18 am
Before I [Richard Feynman] was born, my father told my mother, "If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist." (*)LGS I think you need to make a better case for your position that all TV programs are a "complete waste of time" for children.
1. Comment #434392 by Primate on November 24, 2009 at 3:41 am
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