Tablet PC learning SI metric should be implemented in all schools.
Begin learning with English, math, physics & How Stuff Works." These are
needed in everyday life.
Inexpensive tablet PCs, including courses and tests on inexpensive memory
sticks, should replace textbooks. It's less expensive and more flexible
than paper textbooks & current education practice.
Learning then could take place any time in any place on any path at any pace
& with connection to the Internet, learners would have broader access to
other information sources.
Stan Doore
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Congress Cuts Science and math programs in our schools. What?
Congress voted to authorize HR1 - the appropriations bill which passed the
House over the weekend with huge cuts in government spending. Several parts
of this bill cut funding for science, technology, engineering and math
(STEM) programs from America's K - 12 schools. Now the Senate version will
be written. It's time to call your Senator, the President, your local
newspapers, etc. Forward this to them, or write your own version of it, but
let them know where you stand on cutting STEM funding.
STEM educational funding provides the basis for the innovation and
creativity necessary for our children and grandchildren to be successful in
the sciences, technology, engineering and math fields from which all new
technologies, new sciences, and new industries will evolve tomorrow and
which will secure our future. STEM is the foundation for America's success
in the global marketplace of ideas, trade, business and job creation.
Without STEM funding we are essentially cutting the future of our nation off
at the knees and relegating our children and grandchildren to third world
status.
Please call me at 1-205-765-6090 to let me know where you stand on this
issue. Time is running out for the Senate. I for one will fight loudly and
vocally, locally and nationally, against any cuts to STEM programs. This is
more than just money, it's the future of our nation and children.
Getting our debt under control is vitally important to our future. Cut any
area that you wish, including defense, but if we cut STEM programs we are
putting the US further behind, by at least a generation, in technological
innovation. We will be dependent upon those nations that do invest heavily
in STEM programs such as India, Brazil and China for our new technologies.
Is that what we want? I will do everything in my power, with every contact
I have around the nation, to make sure that STEM is funded above all else.
Our future depends upon it. Will you fight for STEM funding too? Is our
future important to you?
I understand the dire straits our nation are in where the national debt is
concerned, and agree that cuts must be made in spending to reign in debt -
at the local and national levels. The national debt to GDP ratio stands at
~93%. This number is accelerating and will exceed 100% of GDP in a few
years at our current rate of spending. We have been here before though -
several times as a matter of fact. For the year 1945, the debt to GDP ratio
was ~116%, in 1946 it was ~121% and in 1947 it was ~105% of GDP.
Today, we are somewhat more fortunate in that debt to GDP is at ~93% even
with two costly wars. The rate of acceleration of that ratio is the
worrying part.
Another set of facts of interests are that the US has always operated with a
positive debt to GDP ratio, from before George Washington was president -
except for one two year period from 1834 to 1836. And that was a fluke
because Andrew Jackson shut down the national bank by 'de-funding' it, which
skewed debt to GDP away from the federal level to the state level, which in
turn exacerbated a real estate bubble of the day, (yes, it was based on
speculation, on avarice and greed, not at all unlike the one we have
experienced recently), which drove the nations economy into the ground for
almost 8 years in the 1830's and 40's. So I understand the need to control
debt to GDP to keep it well under 100%, because to exceed 100% means that we
really would be spending more than we are taking in as a nation - thank god
we are not yet doing that.
What does this mean? Wars are costly. We pay for them long after they're
over.
But in doing so, we must remember that the future of our nation, our
economic sustainability, will only be found in those new sciences and new
technologies, and the new industries which evolve from them, that our
children and grandchildren develop - but only if they have the right stuff
from the start.
STEM funding represents their future, their jobs, their technologies.
Increasing funding for STEM programs, rather than cutting that funding,
makes more rational sense than any other action our government can take.
It's more important than defense. It's more important than all other
programs combined. It's our future.
So keep STEM programs going. Fund them at higher levels. Get rid of the
hurdles our children must jump over to be competitive in the sciences and in
technology with the rest of the world. Get the SI metric system implemented
nationally - for trade, for science, for the future. Metric is a foundation
of STEM. STEM, metric and the future of the US are inextricably connected.
What are your thoughts on this issue? Call your congressman. Call your
senators. Call the President. Call the pope. Call whomever it takes, . but
we need STEM funding to grow so that our nation grows too. Any real
economic recovery over the long-term is and always has been tied directly to
innovation and creativity in the sciences. So we need to get this right
today, so that tomorrow has a fighting chance.
Thanks!
Tim Williamson
15926 Hwy 216
Brookwood, Alabama, 35444-3703
USA
1-205-765-6090
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