Peter Wood, executive director of the National Association of Scholars has this magnificent piece on Minding the Campus, in which he discusses the reasons why few young Americans study science.
Peter nails it, but will undoubtedly take tons of flak from the feminists, multiculturalists and educational progressives.
Something he didn’t say but I think is relevant is that if you can’t handle math, you won’t go far in science. Unfortunately, elementary school math instruction is pretty weak.
