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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 312 150 SE 051 001 TITLE Math, Science and Engineerinc Education: A National Need. Hearing Before the Subc.mmittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor. House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session (Kansas City, Mo. May 1, 1989). INSTITUTION Congress of the U.S., Washington, D.C. House Committee on Education and Labor. PUB DATE 89 NOTE 257p.; Serial No. 101-19. Contains small print and graphs which may not reproduce well. AVAILABLE FROMSuperintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 ($8.00). PUB TYPE Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials (090) Reports - Evaluative/Feasibility (142) EDRS PRICE MFO1 /PC11 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS College Mathematics; College Science; Elementary Secondary Education; *Engineering Education; *Graduate Study; Hearings; Higher Education; *Mathematics Education; Mathematics Teachers; *Minority Groups; School Business Relationship; Science Careers; * Science Education; Science Teachers; ScientifiL Personnel IDENTIFIERS Congress 101st ABSTRACT This is a repott on the hearing for solutions to the problems in science, mathematics, and engineering education at the postsecondary level. Topics of prepared statements and the testifiers are: (1) educating scientists and engineers (Daryl E. Chubin); (2) science and engineering education needs viewed from the perspectives of the national laboratories (E. Michael Campbell);(3) current status and plan for United States-based companies (M. J. Montague); (4) quality education for minorities (R. 0. Hope); (5) programs of excellence in mathematics education (Shirley A. Hill); (6) problems and solutions in elementary school science (Cynthia K. Yocum); (7) students, teachers, and resources in secondary school science (Kent Kavanaugh); (8) education satellite networks (Hal Gardner); (9) challenge and future of science education (Dennis M. Wint); (10) preserving Americas' scientific preeminence (David Eli Drew); (11) graduate education in science and mathematics perspectives both as administrator and as scientist (Judson D. Sheridan); and (12) efficiency of graduate fellowships in areas of national need (Ed Wilson). (YP) **************************************t******************A************* Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. t*******P************************************************************** 0 1(3 MATH, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION: A 7-4N NATIONAL NEED r.4 CO A Pr4 i HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FIRST CONGRESS FIRST SESSION HEARING HELD IN KANSAS CITY, MO, MAY 1, 1989 Serial No. 101-19 Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER :ERIC> Tn.s document has been reproduced as ,rece.ved from the person or Orgarbiabon oogInabng .1 T.- Mo lor changes have been made to improve reProduct.on dually Poo Its of new 0' opo,ons st..ed in Mos doCu 'bent do cot necessarily represent olbc,a1 OE RI posdron or r'sbcy U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 99-177 = WASHINGTON : 1989 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office U.S. Government Printing Ofr-Washington. DC 20402 BEST COPYAVAILABLE 2 COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR AUGUSTUS F HAWKINS, California. Chairman WILLIAM D. FORD, Michigan WILLIAM F. GOODLING. Pennsylvania JOSEPH M GAYDOS, Pennsylvania E THOMAS COLEMAN, Missouri WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY, Missouri THOMAS E PETRI, Wisconsin GEORGE MILLER, California MARGE ROUKEMA, New Jersey AUSTIN J. MURPHY, Pennsylvania STEVE GUNDERSON, Wisconsin DALE E. KILDEE, Michigan STEVE BARTLETT, Texas PAT WILLIAMS, Montana THOMAS J. TAME, Iowa MATTHEW G. MARTINEZ, California RICHARD K. ARMEY, Texas MAJOR R. OWENS, New York HARRIS W. FAWELL, Illinois CHARLES A. HAYES, Illinois PAUL B HENRY, Michigan CARL C. PERKINS, Kentucky FRED GRANDY, Iowa THOMAS C. SAWYER, Ohio CASS BALLENGER, North Carolina DONALD M. PAYNE, New Jersey PETER SMITH, Vermont NITA M. LOWEY, New York GLENN POSHARD, Illinois JOLENE UNSOELD, Washington NICK JOE RAHALL 11, West Virginia JAIME B. FUSTER, Puerto Rico PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana JIM JONTZ, Indiana KWEISI MFUME, Maryland SUBCOMMITTEE ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION PAT WILLIAMS, Montana, Chairman WILLIAM D. FORD, Miclagan E THOMAS COLEMAN, Missouri MAJOR R. OWENS, New York WILLIAM F. GOODLING, Pennsylvania CHARLES A. HAYES, Illinois MARGE ROUKEMA, New Jersey CARL C. PERKINS, Kentucky THOMAS J. TAUKE, lov.a JOSEPH M GAYDOS, Pennsylvania STEVE GUNDERSON, Wisconsin GEORGE MILLER. California PAUL B. HENRY. Michigan NITA M. LOWEY, New York GLENN POSHARD, Illinois AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS, California (Ex Officio) BEST COPY AVAILABLE , '4, t. or It) : iI r.,,,. CONTENTS Page Hearing held in Kansas City, MO, on May 1, 1989 1 Statement of Campbell, Dr. Michael, Program Director, NOVA Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California... 31 Chubin, Dr. Daryl, Senior Analyst, Office of Technology Assessment, Washington, DC 5 Drew, Dr. David Eli, Professor of Education and Public Policy, Clare- mont, California 182 Gardner, Hal, Executive Director, Missouri Education Satellite Network, Midlands Star-Schools Consortium, Columbia, Missouri 159 Hill, Dr. Shirley, Chairman, Mathematical Sciences Education ...ard, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri 131 Hope, Dr. Richard 0., Executive Director, Quality Education for Minori- ties Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massa- chusetts 68 Kavanaugh, Kent, Teacher, Park Hill Senior High School, Kansas City, Missouri 152 Montague, Michael, Manager, Research Operations & External Funding Biological Sciences, Monsanto, St. Louis, Missouri 58 Sheridan, Dr. Judson D., Graduate Dean, University of Missouri-Colum- bia, Columbia, Missouri 220 Wilson, Dr. Edward N., Dean of Graduate Studies, Washington Universi- ty, St. Louis, Missouri 233 Wint, Dr. Dennis M ,President, St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri 167 Yocum, Cynthia, Teacher, Hall Elementary Schooi, St. Joseph, Missouri 145 Prepared statements, letters, supplemental materials, et cetera: Campbell, Dr. Michael, Program Director, NOVA Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, prepared state- ment of 34 Chubin, Dr. Daryl, Senior Analyst, Office of Technology Assessment, Washington, DC, prepared statement of 8 Corporation for Public Broadcasting, prepared statement of 248 Drew, Dr. David Eli, Professor of Education and Public Policy, Clare- mont, California, prepared statement with attachment 185 Gardner, Hal, Executive Director, Missouri Education Satellite Network, Midlands Star-Schools Consortium, Columbia, Missouri, prepared state- ment of 161 Hill, Dr. Shirley, Chairman, Mathematical Sciences Education Board, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, prepared statement of...: 135 Hope, Dr. Richard 0., Executive Director, Quality Education for Minori- ties Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, prepared statement of 71 Kavanaugh, Kent, Teacher, Park Hill Senior High School, Kansas City Missouri, prepared statement of .............. ........... 155 Montague, Michael, Manager, Research Operations & External Funding Biological Science., Monsanto, St. Louis, Missouri, prepared statement of 61 Sheridan, Dr. Judson D., Graduate Dean, University of Missouri-Colum- bia, Columbia, Missouri, prepared statement of... ....... 224 Wilson, Dr. Edward N., Dean of Graduate Studies, WashfrIton Universi- ty, St. Louis, Missouri, prepared statement of 236 IV Page prepared statements, letters, supplemental materials, etceteraContinued Wint, Dr. Dennis M., President, St. Louis ScienceCenter, St. Louis, Missouri: Letter dated May 8, 1989, to Hon Pat Williams. 252 Prepared statement of 170 Yocum, Cynthia K, Teacher, Hall Elementary School,St. Joseph, Missou- ri, prepared statement of.... ..... ..... ............. ........ ....... 148 tir 1 MATH, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION: A NATIONAL NEED MONDAY, MAY 1, 1989 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, Kansas City, MO. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 8:57 a.m., in room 110, Fei, aral Building, 601 East Twelfth Street, Kansas City, Mis- souri, Hon. Pat Williams, [Chairman] presiding. Members present. Representative E. Thomas Coleman of Missou- ri. Staff present. Rick Jerue and Michael Lance. Mr. WILLIAMS. Good morning. I'm Pat Williams, chair of the House Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education. For the informa- tion of those who don't know me and whom I don't know, I repre- sent western Montana in the Congress. I am pleased to be here with my friend and colleague and the ranking member of our subcommittee, Tom Coleman. Tom, I feel to some degree that I'm back home. Tom and I went to school at the same place, although not together. We both went to William Jewell up here at Liberty. My folks on my father's side are from Olathe. I haven't been in Kansas City for a while, but I'm glad to be back, and I see everything is still up to date here. I want to thank all of you for being here to discuss an issue that is of great concern to this country, and that is the need for future engineers, mathematicians and scientists. The economies of all major nations have international signifi- cance. America's economy, if it is to