{"id":653,"date":"2006-02-02T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolanpro.com\/wordpress\/?p=312"},"modified":"2006-02-02T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T01:06:00","slug":"non-faith-based-hopeful-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/2006\/02\/02\/non-faith-based-hopeful-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Faith Based Hopeful Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent State of the Union Address the President spoke in regards to the US regaining competitive strength in the world economy by increasing the math and science skills of young students. Last night on Charlie Rose Norman Augustine and Roy Vangelos, members of the National Academy, were talking about a report they had just finished which laid out a plan for the US to regain this competitive edge. The report was published as: <strong>Rising Above the Coming Storm <\/strong>a pdf for free download can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/books.nap.edu\/catalog\/11463.html\">http:\/\/books.nap.edu\/catalog\/11463.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, since TV is twice as fast at information you can watch Augustine and Vangelos on Charlie Rose via Google(double twice as fast) video here: <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=7533029211333433510&#038;q=tvshow%3ACharlie_Rose\">http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=7533029211333433510&amp;q=tvshow%3ACharlie_Rose<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest issues discussed by Augustine and Vangelos is that of improving K-12 education in the math and science fields. Augustine does briefly and jokingly address one issue about the problem of inspiring the youth towards interests in these fields that I think might be the real crux of the problem. In the US math and science are not viewed, or portrayed in the media, with the reverence that they are in other parts of the world. This is a critical concern.  I wonder if there is enough money (as that is all the government can really offer as a remedy) to produce teachers that will inspire kids to dig math and science as much as American Idol (which has been pretty lame this season)? Ultimately it will be up to the kids.  I just hope (fingers crossed) that the society will not be inhereited by ambivalent malcontents . . . or Communists.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/653_0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/653_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent State of the Union Address the President spoke in regards to the US regaining competitive strength in the world economy by increasing the math and science skills of young students. Last night on Charlie Rose Norman Augustine and Roy Vangelos, members of the National Academy, were talking about a report they had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}