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	<description>Oklahoma's future depends on educating more math and science students</description>
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		<title>Education Secretary Says More Class Time Needed to Compete</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr Duncan was in Denver last week when he spoke to a group of 400 middle and high school students at a public school in northeast Denver.
I fundamentally think that our school day is too short, our school week is too short and our school year is too short
You&#8217;re competing for jobs with kids from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Stresses Importance of Education in Global Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his speech tonight, the President  warned that more than a high school education is needed to compete in the global economy.
In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a pre-requisite.
Right now, three-quarters of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the United States relinquish its leadership in the 21st century?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the executive summary of the final report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel:
During most of the 20th century, the United States possessed peerless mathematical prowess—not just as measured by the depth and number of the mathematical specialists who practiced here but also by the scale and quality of its engineering, science, and financial leadership, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Mathematics Out of Mediocrity is in Our National Interests</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Leinwand a principal research analyst at the American Institutes for Research and the author of the forthcoming book &#8220;Accessible Mathematics: Ten Instructional Shifts That Raise Student Achievement&#8221; writes that:
The country’s long-term economic security and social well-being are clearly linked to sustained innovation and workplace productivity. This innovation and productivity rely, just as clearly, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student&#8217;s Science Performance Same as in 90&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; average science performance, although still stronger than in many countries, has stagnated since 1995.&#8221;
How can we compete in the global economy if we are not producing more talented young people?
Washington Post 
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		<title>In Danger of Losing the Global Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Educators in Texas recogize the need to educate more math and science students or lose out in competing in a technology driven global marketplace. Recruiting and retaining math and science teachers and developing curriculum that piques and holds students intersts are priorities.
Houston Chronicle Article
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		<title>Middle School Math and Science Teachers Not Prepared</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A National Science Foundation study finds middle school science and math teachers ill prepared.
&#8220;Our future teachers are getting weak training mathematically and are just  not prepared to teach the demanding mathematics curriculum we need for middle  schools if we hope to compete internationally in the future,&#8221; said William  Schmidt, MSU distinguished professor, [...]]]></description>
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