Bill Gates, whose charitable foundation has given away more than $3 billion since 1999 for educational programs and scholarships, noted that about 30 percent of U.S. ninth-graders fail to graduate on time. “As a nation, we should start with this goal: Every child in the United States graduating from high school,” he said.
A federal study released last month showed about a third of high schoolers fail to take a standard-level curriculum, which is defined as including at least four credits of English and three credits each of social studies, math and science.
“We simply cannot sustain an economy based on innovation unless our citizens are educated in math, science and engineering,” Gates said.
As long as the culture and news media of the United States continues to consider being smart as an aberrant “geeky” thing on par with halitosis, this country is in deep trouble.
This country celebrates non-intelligent people who deliberately choose to not be intelligent. Hence, Dear Leader.
When your local newspaper employs more reporters to cover high school sports than to cover old people going without food or heat, something is deeply wrong.
This administration has declared war on science. It is no different than the Catholic bishops who ordered Galileo to deny and renounce what he saw with his eyes through a telescope aimed at Jupiter.
FOX news is the official network of those medieval bishops. FOX news wants our young children to put down their science books and spend their time instead cheering on their favorite black NASCAR star.
