U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the Sciences
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“The United States has started to lose its worldwide dominance in critical areas of science and innovation, according to federal and private experts who point to strong evidence like prizes awarded to Americans and the number of papers in major professional journals.
Foreign advances in basic science now often rival or even exceed America’s, apparently with little public awareness of the trend or its implications for jobs, industry, national security or the vigor of the nation’s intellectual and cultural life.
‘The rest of the world is catching up,’ said John E. Jankowski, a senior analyst at the National Science Foundation, the federal agency that tracks science trends. ‘Science excellence is no longer the domain of just the U.S.’ “
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Des Aubery
March 13th, 2007
at 9:30pm
‘The rest of the world is catching up’
I’m not sure that the rest of the world was ever behind the US. If this were the case, then why does the US actively recruit foreign experts in order to bolster its academic fraternity.
Europe has always been ahead of the US in many areas of original thought.
Marc Erickson
March 14th, 2007
at 4:43pm
‘The rest of the world is catching up’ is a typically American chauvinistic comment. The American educational system has been poor for twenty - maybe thirty - years and it’s finally caught up with them.