From our Report and Strategic Plan 2013 Click Here Committed to
increase student interest, excellence, competitiveness and
participation in science, technology, engineering, and math
fields in the State of Nevada. Rather convincing empirical
evidence suggests that most children who are ‘turned off’ by
mathematics and science have already arrived at that conclusion
by the time they are in 4th grade. The die is usually cast by a
teacher who finds teaching science and mathematics an unwelcome
and intimidating burden or by a parent with a disinterest or
disdain for these fields. Ninety-three percent of US public
school students in fifth through eighth grade are taught the
physical sciences by a teacher without a degree or certificate
in the physical sciences. American students’ disinterest in math
and science continues at the graduate level too, where less than
10% of degrees are conferred in engineering, math, and computer
science. This places our country 20th internationally in terms
of the share of graduate de