{"id":233,"date":"2005-06-21T19:17:13","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T02:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2019-01-09T23:12:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T23:12:42","slug":"sobering-stat-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/21\/sobering-stat-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sobering Stat of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the most recent data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\">National Science Foundation,<\/a> 1.2 million of the world&#8217;s 2.8 million university degrees in science and engineering in 2000 were earned by Asian students in Asian universities, with only 400,000 granted in the United States. That means the US of A supplies less than 15% of all degrees.<\/p>\n<p>With China and India fast on the US&#8217;s heals, we&#8217;ve got to do a better job as a nation of not only educating our future innovators and leaders but making them <em>want<\/em> to learn these subjects. Math and science <em>are<\/em> a hard sell but we&#8217;ve got to be able to close the deal or else we risk a future where America no longer leads but follows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the most recent data from the National Science Foundation, 1.2 million of the world&#8217;s 2.8 million university degrees in science and engineering in 2000 were earned by Asian students in Asian universities, with only 400,000 granted in the United States. That means the US of A supplies less than 15% of all degrees. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[203],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4009,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/4009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}