Submission + - Gates to Senate: Education Reform Now
eldavojohn writes: "Bill Gates appeared before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions last week and called for education reform. "We simply cannot sustain an economy based on innovation unless our citizens are educated in math, science, and engineering," he said. "As a nation, we should start with this goal: Every child in the United States graduating from high school." From the article, "A federal study released last month found that about a third of high school students fail to take a standard-level curriculum of at least four credits of English and three credits each of social studies, math, and science. Another recent federal study found that 40 percent of high school seniors failed to perform at the basic level on a national math test. And on a national science test, half the twelfth-graders who took the test lacked basic skills.""
