TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beach,Gary J.
TI  - The U.S. technology skills gap: what every technology executive must know to save America's future 
T2  - CIO series
SN  - 9781118660478
AV  - HC110.H53 
U1  - 338/.0640973 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Hoboken, New Jersey
PB  - John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
KW  - High technology industries
KW  - United States
KW  - Labor supply
KW  - Skilled labor
KW  - Vocational qualifications
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Science
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Industries de pointe
KW  - �Etats-Unis
KW  - March�e du travail
KW  - Qualifications professionnelles
KW  - Technologie de l'information
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Industrial Technology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note; pt. ONE; How Did We Get Here? --; ch. 1; 1941: The Subject We Love to Hate --; Math? Not for Me! --; "Minimize the Effect of Schooling" --; Young Adults with IQs of Eight-Year-Olds --; Fall Continues --; President Roosevelt Understands Science --; Opportunity Lost --; Americans Still Hate Math and Science --; ch. 2; 1945: Operation Paperclip --; Nazis Hailed as "Outstanding" Scientists --; Germany's Rocket Man --; Nazis Get to von Braun --; Time Magazine Paints a Dim Picture of von Braun --; America's Best Rocket: The Bazooka --; Shipped to America --; America Had Space Technology before the Soviets --; Germany Developed the Atomic Bomb First --; ch. 3; 1950: Deming Says --; Deming Has an Idea --; Lecture Series That Changed the Balance of the World Economy --; Japan Embraces, America Ignores --; Datsuns Arrive in Los Angeles --; American Business Leaders Finally Listen --; Lessons from Deming --; Can Total Quality Management Fix the American Education System? --; ch. 4; 1952: Boomerang --; What It Means to Teach --; Teacher Shortage Exacerbates the Educational Challenges --; Another Problem: Crumbling Infrastructure --; Media Critiques Begin --; Back in the USSR --; Boomers Perform Poorly on SATs --; Connecting the Dots --; Boomerang Theory --; ch. 5; 1962: Too Hard to Follow --; Rationale for the Lunar Landing --; Kennedy in His Own Words --; "It's Just So Darn Hard" --; Students: Math and Science Are Irrelevant --; Culture Counts --; Industry Leaders Offer Advice --; Do Something about It --; American Students Not Measuring Up --; Results, Please --; How to Do Something --; High School Seniors: No, Thank You --; Perception Is Reality: The Importance of the Guidance Counselor --; STEM Pipeline Shrinks More in Higher Education --; Putting Words in the President's Mouth --; ch. 6; 1962: Empires of the Mind --; Did You Know? --; Shift Is On --; Components of Yuasa's Phenomenon --; Fast-Forward --; Yuasa's Phenomenon Arrives in America in 1920 --; Youth Rules --; Look to the East? --; Three Patents to the Win --; America's Innovation Ecosystem at Risk --; Does It Work for You? --; World in 2050 --; Slip Sliding Away? --; Survival Is Not Compulsory --; ch. 7; 1963: SAT Down --; History of the SAT --; Asleep at the Wheel for 14 Years --; College Entrance Examination Board Responds --; More Competition for the SAT --; Why the SAT Scores Dropped --; How to Get 100 More SAT Points --; Too Much Mediocrity --; ch. 8; 1976: Too Many Chiefs --; Tale of Two Documents --; Keep It Local --; Great Society Era Ushers in Federal Involvement --; ESEA: Not All Things Considered --; Teacher Unions Create the U.S. Department of Education --; Did I Really Promise That? --; President Carter's Top 10 List --; Eight Years Is Too Short --; Reagan Shifts from Compliance to Competency --; Bush Sets Voluntary Education Goals --; Other Issues Get in the Way --; Clinton Unsuccessfully Shifts Education Goals from Voluntary to Compulsory --; No Child Left Behind Ushers in Compulsory Education Compliance --; Obama Is Stymied by Gridlocked Washington --; Close Down the U.S. Department of Education --; pt. TWO; And the Hits Just Keep on Coming --; Can You Hear Me Now? --; Road Trip --; Eighth-Grade Focus --; Connect the Dots --; It Takes a Village That Cares --; Warning System Works --; ch. 9; Skills Gap Warnings Begin --; 1964: The First International Mathematics Study --; 1971: The First International Science Study --; 1971: The National Education Trust Fund --; 1978: The Nation's Report Card --; 1982: The Second International Mathematics Study --; 1983: A Nation at Risk --; 1985: Global Competition: The New Reality --; 1985: Corporate Classrooms: The Learning Business --; 1986: A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century --; 1987: Workforce 2000: Work and Workers for the Twenty-first Century --; 1987: The National Science Foundation Annual Report Introduces STEM --; 1987: The Fourth R: Workforce Readiness, a Guide to Business Education Partnerships --; 1989: Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive --; ch. 10; Skills Gap Emerges --; 1990: America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages! --; 1990: The Second International Science Study --; 1990: The National Assessment of Educational Progress --; 1993: John Sculley: "America Is Resource Poor" --; 1995: The Third International Mathematics and Science Study --; Different Measurement, Improved Ranking --; 1996: The National Assessment of Educational Progress --; 1999: New World Coming: American Security in the 21 st Century --; ch. 11; Skills Gap Widens --; 2000: Ensuring a Strong U.S. Scientific, Technical, and Engineering Workforce in the 21 st Century --; 2000: Before It's Too Late --; 2000: The Programme for International Student Assessment --; 2000: The National Assessment of Educational Progress Test --; 2002: Unraveling the Teacher Shortage Problem: Teacher Retention Is the Key --; 2003: Building a Nation of Learners --; 2004: Sustaining the Nation's Innovation Ecosystem --; 2005: Losing the Competitive Advantage: The Challenge for Science and Technology in America --; 2005: The Knowledge Economy: Is the United States Losing Its Competitive Edge? --; 2005: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century --; 2005: Rising above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future --; 2005: The National Assessment of Educational Progress --; 2006: Teachers and the Uncertain American Future --; 2006: The Quiet Crisis: Falling Short in Producing American Scientific and Technical. Talent --; 2007: We Are Still Losing Our Competitive Advantage: Now Is the Time to Act --; 2007: How the World's Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top --; 2007: Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education, Quality, and Workforce Demand --; 2007: Tough Choices or Tough Times --; 2007: The Role of Education Quality in Economic Growth --; 2008: Foundations for Success: The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel --; 2008: "Lessons from 40 Years of Education Reform" --; 2009: Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant: Asian Nations Set to Dominate the Clean Energy Race by Out-Investing the United States --; 2009: The CIO Executive Council's Youth and Technology Careers Survey --; 2009: The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools --; 2009: The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness --; 2009: Steady As She Goes? Three Generations of Students through the Science and Engineering Pipeline --; ch. 12; Consequences of the Skills Gap Become Apparent --; 2010: Rising above the Gathering Storm Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5 --; 2010: Why So Few Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics? --; 2010: Waiting for Superman --; 2010: Education Next's Public Perception of Education Survey --; 2010: Interview with Craig Barrett --; 2010: Closing the Talent Gap: Attracting and Retaining Top-Third Graduates to Careers in Teaching --; 2011: The National Assessment of Educational Progress --; 2011: The Intel Corporation's Survey of Teens' Perceptions of Engineering --; 2011: Globally Challenged: Are U.S. Students Ready to Compete? --; 2012: How Well Are American Students Learning? --; 2012: U.S. Education Reform and National Security --; 2012: Prosperity at Risk: Findings of Harvard Business School's Survey on U.S; Competitiveness --; 2012: The World Economic Forum's Annual Global Competitiveness Report --; 2012: Where Will All the STEM Talent Come From? --; 2012: SAT and ACT Scores Reveal Disappointing News --; 2012: Five Misconceptions about Teaching Math and Science: American Education Has Not Declined, and Other Surprising Truths --; Long and Winding Road --; pt. THREE; Let's Build Some Arks --; ch. 13; Patchworking the Tech Skills Gap Begins --; 1965: Skills USA --; 1968: The Xerox Science Consultant Program --; 1989: Women in Technology International --; 1990: Teach for America --; 1994: Tech Corps --; 1995: NetDay --; 1996: SAS Curriculum Pathways --; 1997: The Cisco Networking Academy --; 1998: I.C. Stars --; 1998: Intel Teach --; ch. 14; Pace of Remediation Work on the National Skills Gap Accelerates --; 2000: Year Up --; 2000: The Juniper Networks Foundation Fund --; 2002: Technology Goddesses --; 2002: nPower --; 2003: The Microsoft Imagine Cup --; 2004: Engineering Is Elementary --; 2004: The Junior FIRST Lego League --; 2005: Raytheon's MathMovesU --; 2005: IBM's Transition to Teaching --; 2006: The Khan Academy --; 2006: Cognizant's Maker Faire --; 2007: The National Math and Science Initiative --; 2008: AT & T Aspire --; 2008: AMD's Changing the Game --; 2009: Microsoft's TEALS --; 2009: The Salesforce.com Foundation --; 2009: DIGITS --; 2009: Change the Equation --; ch. 15; Pace of Ark Building Quickens --; 2010: The Broadcom MASTERS --; 2011: CA Technologies and the Sesame Workshop --; 2011: IBM's P-TECH --; 2012: Udacity --; 2012: CA Technologies: Tech Girls Rock --; 2012: Microsoft's Teach.org --; 2012: The Dell Education Challenge --; 2012: The Girl Scouts of America's Generation STEM: What Girls Say about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math --; News Alert: More Arks Needed! --; EPILOGUE For What It's Worth --; Top Ten Recommendations for Action --; Closing Time
N2  - Is a widening "skills gap" in science and math education threatening America's future? That is the seminal question addressed in The U.S. Technology Skills Gap, a comprehensive 104-year review of math and science education in America. Some claim this "skills gap" is "equivalent to a permanent national recession" while others cite how the gap threatens America's future economic, workforce employability and national security. This much is sure: America's math and science skills gap is, or should be, an issue of concern for every business and information technology executive in t
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