{"id":27686,"date":"2011-11-28T09:29:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T13:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27686"},"modified":"2011-11-28T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T13:30:32","slug":"self-esteem-vs-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27686","title":{"rendered":"Self Esteem vs Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This does not bode well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lanterloon.com\/?p=1446\" target=\"_blank\">Top Defense Scientists Send Out S.O.S. for Scientists and Engineers<\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ll skip to the kicker:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The decline in teaching our children in STEM fields \u2013science, technology, engineering, and math\u2014is frightening. Just look at the facts: According to the National Center for Education Statistics, a more level comparison from country to country, U.S. eighth-graders science scores ranked 11th against many Asian countries and Russia. It goes downhill by the time high school graduation arrives with a rank of 25 against 34 other nations. Chinese students have an 89 percent college admission rate, higher than America\u2019s 70 percent.\u00a0Narrowing the focus on science and engineering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India graduates 230,000 engineers every year, another 50,000 earn master degrees and still another 20,000 earn a doctorate.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S. graduates about 7,000 engineers each year, but 55 percent are earned by foreign students. Another 3,000 earn master degrees and a mere 9,000 earn a doctorate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to get verifiable numbers from China, but I would suspect that they are closer to India\u2019s than ours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, what the author calls STEM fields require students to deal with facts, and 2+2=4 kinda stuff.\u00a0 No blue ribbon just for showing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This does not bode well&#8230; Top Defense Scientists Send Out S.O.S. for Scientists and Engineers I&#8217;ll &hellip; <a title=\"Self Esteem vs Reality\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27686\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Self Esteem vs Reality<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}