What Did Sputnik Do?

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What Did Sputnik Do?
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Race to the Moon
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Complacency Is Not Justified
Warnings were sounded April, 1983 A Nation
At Risk
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PISA 2006 Math Rankings By Country
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Facts About My Beloved State
One in four students drops out and does not
complete high school.
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CA 48th 4th grade reading CA 47rd 4th grade
math CA 43rd 4th grade science (of 44
states)
CA 48th 8th grade reading CA 45th 8th grade
math CA 42nd 8th grade science (of 44
states)
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More Facts About California
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Some Personal Beliefs
A convergence of events technologies has
allowed economic competition to become global An
education surplus in one part of the world can
now satisfy education deficits elsewhere We
must move up the value chain Education is the key
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From RAGS to ACI to Riches?
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U.S. Innovation 2005 Is There a Crisis?

• Evidence and Counterarguments

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Charge to the Committee

• Senators Alexander and Bingaman with endorsement
  by House Science committee requested National
  Academies to
• Identify top actions federal policy makers could
  take so US can successfully compete, prosper, and
  be secure in the 21st Century
• Determine an implementation strategy with several
  concrete steps

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Committee

• Norman Augustine (chair)
• Craig Barrett
• Gail Cassell
• Steven Chu
• Robert Gates
• Nancy Grasmick
• Charles Holliday
• Shirley Ann Jackson
• Anita Jones
• Joshua Lederberg

• Richard Levin
• Dan Mote
• Cherry Murray
• Peter ODonnell
• Lee Raymond
• Robert Richardson
• Roy Vagelos
• Charles Vest
• George Whitesides
• Richard Zare

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Method

• Review of literature, past reports, and
  suggestions led to 150 ideas
• Focus groups of experts discussed ideas and
  identified top 3-4 ideas in K-12 education,
  higher education, research, innovation and
  workforce, and homeland/national security
• Committee meeting and conference calls
• Additional expert consultations
• More than 40 anonymous reviewers

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Two Key Challenges

• Creation of High-Quality Jobs for Americans
• Responding to Nations Need for Clean,
  Affordable, and Reliable Energy

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Four Recommendations

• 20 Implementation Actions

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Ten Thousand Teachers, Ten Million Minds

• Recruit 10,000 teachers, Educate 10 million
  minds
• Strengthen 250,000 current teachers skills
• Enlarge the Pipeline

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Sowing the Seeds

• Increase federal investment in long-term basic
  research
• Provide early-career researcher grants
• Institute National Coordination Office for
  Research Infrastructure
• Catalyze high-risk, high-payoff research
• Institute Presidential Innovation Awards

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ARPA-E

• Focus on creative out-of-the-box transformational
  energy research that industry by itself cannot or
  will not support
• High risk, but potentially dramatic benefits to
  nation
• Accelerate current research knowledge
  transformation process to create jobs and address
  environmental, energy, and security issues

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Best and Brightest

• Increase US citizens earning science,
  engineering, and math degrees
• Encourage continuing education of current
  scientists and engineers
• International students and scholars
• Reform "deemed exports" policy

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Incentives for Innovation

• Enhance IP protection for global economy, while
  allowing research
• Increase Research Experimentation tax credit
  from 20 to 40 of qualifying increase
• Provide financial incentives so US is competitive
  for long-term innovation-related investment
• Affordable broadband access

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For more informationPDF of full report is
available at www.nap.edu
www.nationalacademies.org/prospering
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Parable of the Boiled Frog
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Parable of the Boiled Frog

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The National Science Foundation Act of 2002
authorized a doubling of the NSF budget over 5
years, to a total of almost 10 billion by FY
2007.
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Chairman Bart Gordon speaks about the importance
of Science and Technology and in particular,
establishing ARPA-E, in meeting Americas growing
energy needs. Ways and Means Chairman Charlie
Rangel, Natural Resources Chairman Nick Rahall,
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and House Majority Leader
Steny Hoyer listen on.
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Actions Taken
-- Rising Above the Gathering Storm testimony
given by Norman R. Augustine, Chair of study
to the Science Committee, U.S. House of
Representatives, October 20, 2005 -- Mentioned
in President Bushs 2006 State of the Union
Address -- America COMPETES authorization Act
signed into law August 9, 2007. . 
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Partial Summary of America COMPETES Act
Increase Research Investment by Doubling
funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF)
from approximately 5.6 billion in Fiscal Year
2006 to 11.2 billion in Fiscal Year 2011.
Setting the Department of Energys Office of
Science on track to double in funding over ten
years, increasing from 3.6 billion in Fiscal
Year 2006 to over 5.2 billion in Fiscal Year
2011. Establishing the Innovation
Acceleration Research Program to direct federal
agencies funding research in science and
technology to set as a goal dedicating
approximately 8 of their Research and
Development (RD) budgets toward high-risk
frontier research.
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Partial Summary of America COMPETES Act
Strengthen Educational Opportunities in Science,
Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and
Critical Foreign Languages by Authorizing
competitive grants to States to promote better
alignment of elementary and secondary education
with the knowledge and skills needed for success
in postsecondary education, the 21st century
workforce, and the Armed Forces, and grants to
support the establishment or improvement of
statewide P-16 education longitudinal data
systems. Strengthening the skills of
thousands of math and science teachers by
establishing training and education programs at
summer institutes hosted at the National
Laboratories and by increasing support for the
Teacher Institutes for the 21st Century program
at NSF. Expanding the Robert Noyce Teacher
Scholarship Program at NSF to recruit and train
individuals to become math and science teachers
in high- need local educational agencies.
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Overall Federal spending in research has not kept
up with inflation since 2004
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The future of Chinas science and technology
depends fundamentally on how we attract, train,
and use young scientific talents today. Thus, at
the core of our science and technology policy is
attracting a diverse range of talents, especially
young people, into science and providing them
with an environment that brings out the best of
their creative ideas.
Wen Jiabiao, Premier, Peoples Republic of China
SCIENCE VOL 322 31 OCTOBER 2008
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Personal Remarks,Hopefully,In the Spirit of
This Report
No more critical or opportune a time exists to
invest in research and education.
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Science is Not a Zero Sum Game
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Conclusion

• The world is changing. We need to take action to
  renew our nations commitment in
• education
• research
• innovation policies
• so our nations children have worthwhile jobs.

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What Does It Cost?
Low Less than 500 million Medium Between
500 million and 5 billion (about NSFs current
budget) High Greater than 5 billion
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