| PRES | Sunday, April 6, 2008 | ||
1:30 PM-4:05 PM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 244/245, Oral | |||
America Competes: Innovations in Science Education for the 21st Century | |||
| Sponsored by: | PRES | ||
| Cosponsored by: | Committee on Professional Training and SOCED | ||
| Organizers: | Mary Kirchhoff Frank Walworth Bryan Balazs William F. Polik | ||
| 1:30 PM | Opening Remarks, Bruce Bursten, ACS President | ||
| 1:40 PM | 71 | Global competitiveness, the skills gap, and science education Bruce Fuchs | |
| 2:10 PM | 72 | A talent pool for science: an "American dilemma" Shirley Malcom | |
| 2:40 PM | Break | ||
| 2:50 PM | 73 | Selling science to unwilling buyers Lawrence M. Krauss | |
| 3:20 PM | 74 | Science education in a cyber-enabled age Arthur B. Ellis | |
| 3:50 PM | Panel Discussion | ||
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The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008