It doesn't help that the Regents of the University of California do not count Earth Science toward the three years of science required for admission.
"Each upstream patent allows its owner to set up another tollbooth on the road to product development, adding to the cost and slowing the pace of downstream biomedical innovation".[ 23] The emerging patent thicket represents a distinct threat to the traditions of open science required for progress.
What if we began with a look at actual scientific practice (as suggested in §§6.3, 7.5) and determined what exactly science requires for acceptable causal explanation?
Fully 31percentt of current New York City public school teachers who took the liberal arts and sciences test required for certification failed at least once, compared with only 4.7percentt in the rest of New York State.
Therefore, the synergy of researchers with different backgrounds, such as physics, chemistry, robotics, materials science, micro-/nanotechnology, and computer science, is required for the advancement of this emerging field.
Authors of ambitious proposals often find their work dismissed by reviewers who use that very word--ambitious--as a criticism, as Science's Jeffrey Mervis observed in a news article late in 2004 (institutional or Science subscription required for access).
They could respond "no" if they believed that the career did not require high school mathematics or science, or they could choose "uncertain" if they were not sure that high school mathematics and/or science were required for that career.
Such a student, he said "obviously has not the ability to come to grips with the necessary natural science information" required for medical practice.
Too many students are obtaining too many Mickey Mouse degrees from no-name universities, often without the hard math and science background required for a successful career.
I brought in the educational goals, relevant research on learning in museums, and the specific science content required for teachers and students.
