"E.P.A. needs an appropriately qualified science official at a sufficiently high level to carry both the authority and responsibility for agencywide scientific performance," the committee said in its report.
Assistant Secretary of Education Tom Luce said they reflected a national shortage of fully qualified science teachers, especially in regions of poverty, where physics and chemistry classes are often taught by teachers untrained in those subjects.
Highly qualified Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) professionals will be needed for worldwide innovation and global economics (White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, 2012; Eisenhart et al., 2015).
First, before the independence, Science for all was not possible due to the lack of adequate equipment and qualified science teachers.
Profound implications from these changes are already apparent: the United States is falling behind India and China in scientific innovation (Branscomb, 2008; DeHaan and Narayan, 2008), qualified science educators in the United States at the K-12 level are in short supply (King, 2006), and many research and technological jobs are being sent overseas (Lieberman, 2004).
And when anything qualifies as science, science can no longer claim to have a unique grasp on secular truth.
Meanwhile, there was a shortage of people qualified, in science and in law, to work in patent law, and in the biotech industry the need for new patent expertise was -- and is -- increasing.
Recruiting qualified computer science teachers can be a legitimate obstacle.
Some question whether computer science really qualifies as science.
DURING the past few days, considerable prominence has been given in the Press to the appeal issued by the National Union of Scientific Workers to all men and women in Great Britain qualified in science to state their views on the possibility and desirability of building up a body which can claim to be fully representative of their varied interests.
