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Jewish World Review
March 26, 2008
/ 19 Adar II 5768
Latest irony in Bush legacy science
By
William McKenzie
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
Here's another irony about George W. Bush: For all the conventional wisdom about his supposed hostility to science, he hasn't been a raving Luddite.
Before we get going, I'll concede that he has given some ammo to those willing to buy into that perception. Most recently, his Environmental Protection Agency leaned toward businesses rather than scientists when it set new pollution standards. The EPA has gone weak in the knees before, such as when it allowed high levels of arsenic in drinking water before reversing itself.
And, of course, the president banned scientists from using embryonic stem cells for medical research.
Decisions like these might lead you to believe he was almost begging The New York Times to tee off on him. I sometimes wonder if he secretly was, because the anti-science critique falls apart when you look at the rest of his record.
Look at how he has led on the "world is flat" front. Remember how Thomas Friedman warned in his book, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century, that the U.S. was woefully behind competitors like India and China? That these new tigers were poised to give us a go in leading the world's economy? After all, they produce many more scientists and engineers.
The New York Times columnist wasn't the only one warning us about other nations turning out the thinkers who will drive the wired world. A somber group assembled by the National Academy of Sciences issued a 2005 report lamenting how few engineers the U.S. was producing.
Their "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" analysis became the talk of science and education circles.
Given how anti-science President Bush supposedly is, you would think he'd have thrown those pages straight into the trash. But he hasn't. In fact, he's spent the better part of his second term pushing for ways to meet this challenge.
Earlier this month, the national committee he assembled to look at math instruction in elementary and secondary schools came out with a must-see report. Led by Larry Faulkner, the former University of Texas at Austin president, the Bush panel claimed that U.S. schools were trying to cover too much on math. Students weren't going deep enough into areas that would get them ready for algebra, like being able to do fractions.
Dr. Faulkner elaborated on this last week when he told me that students who don't know what something as simple as a third of the pie represents aren't going to be able to manipulate numbers in a way that the quantified world demands.
That's why the committee recommended that math classes focus on fundamentals to help prepare kids for algebra. And that will prepare them for the higher-order thinking they will need to get a good job in the next 15 years.
The math panel feeds on an earlier program that Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has been promoting. Math Now is the administration's attempt to interest more elementary and middle school students in math.
Ms. Spellings and Mr. Bush also championed the America Competes Act that came out of the National Academy of Sciences report. Among other things, the legislation will increase the number of high school courses that prepare students for college-level math and science.
Here's another thing that might surprise you: The budget Mr. Bush recently proposed seeks to double federal spending on the physical sciences over five years. Physics departments across the country should see a serious boost, as will labs exploring the latest in nanotechnology that benefits our lives.
That proposed spending increase comes on top of the administration's serious first-term boost in funding for the National Institutes of Health. Most of that money has gone for medical research.
To be sure, it's legitimate to wonder if Mr. Bush understands the protocols of science. Whether he fully gets that scientists follow where their facts take them, even if that's into politically unpopular places, like requiring communities to have tougher ozone standards.
But when you add everything up, science actually could gain from the Bush years.
The jolt given math education, physics and medical research will help our economy meet what everyone was worried about when they heard Tom Friedman or stumbled onto "Rising Above the Gathering Storm."
When we size up the Bush years, science is one area where we need to think about the ironies. Conventional wisdom won't help us understand all we need to know about the 43rd president.
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William McKenzie is an editorial columnist for The Dallas Morning News. Comment by clicking here.
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© 2007, The Dallas Morning News Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
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