Education has a vital role to play in remedying the democratic deficit, but what citizens need is not simply more STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) courses.
But an urgent call for more STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) teachers may have merit.
Those who advocate for more STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) training in higher education are on the right track.
Pittsburgh has more STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) jobs than other shrinking cities, about 80,000 or 7percentt of all jobs.
Climer, who studied chemistry at Imperial College before joining the BBC as a trainee engineer, wants to see quotas introduced for female engineers as well as more female Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) role models in popular culture.
The president has called on universities to graduate hundreds of thousands more engineers and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) teachers in the next few years, but 40 percent of students who enter college intending to get a degree in a STEM field don't.
More students enrolled in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) courses will require more science and math teachers, of course.
The rise of technology startups in the past 5 years and one of the most prolific investment periods in Silicon Valley history has led to more than just TV sitcoms and "unicorns" - young students in the Bay Area are more focused on studying STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) majors.
"Throughout the 2011 budget, you will find expansion of family planning programs, childcare tax credits, promoting more women in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields, as well as increases in the budget for women veterans," says Tchen.
Getting Girls Involved Coding is also being lauded as a way to get more girls involved in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math).
Citing ample statistics, the Chairman's Staff of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress makes the case that Americans must produce more students to fill STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) jobs or the economic future of the United States in the new global economy is doomed.
