22 Feb 2006
Science education seems destined this year to have its highest political profile since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957. That catalytic event led to passage the following year of far-reaching federal legislation designed to boost the nation's scientific literacy and enhance its production of scientists. Today, a different catalyst - the threat to U.S. competitiveness in the global economy - has prompted calls for new government action to stimulate our once-again-faltering pipeline of young scientists.
