We are raising students in America who are, by and large, historically illiterate.
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
We do not need an immigration policy that displaces American workers or American students and drives up costs in education.
There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.
A new study shows that American students are becoming less proficient in science, and if the trend continues, we will become a nation that's science and chemistry illiterate. And you thought a lot of meth labs are blowing up now?
Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.
we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities
Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.
Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.
My biggest entertainment in Moscow was to go to the subway and watch people. When American students visited, I watched them; I learned English from them.
Years ago, I worked briefly as a consultant for Sciences-Po, one of Paris's famed grandes ecoles, encouraging American high school students and their parents to pursue an English-language education abroad.
Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.
