July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
8h 52m
English
book
The U.S. Technology Skills Gap: What Every Technology Executive Must Know to Save America's Future, + Website
by Gary J. Beach
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INDEX
A
Abelson, Hal
Accenture Institute for High Performance
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (DARPA)
“Advocate Mom”
African American girls, STEM careers and
Agarwal, Anant
Alexander, Lamar
Allison, David
AMD
America 2000
American Association for School Administrators
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
American Chemical Society
American College Testing (ACT)
American Electric Power Foundation
American Electronics Association
American Federation of Teachers
American Mathematical Society
America’s Choice: High Skills or Low Wages! (Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce)
Anjum, Hassan
Archie (search engine)
“Arks.” See Technology skills initiatives
Asia, PhD degrees earned in. See also People’s Republic of China
Aspire (AT&T)
Assessment tests
compulsory testing introduced
review of
U.S. Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)
U.S. Army General Classification Test
See also American College Testing (ACT); SAT
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Atkinson, Rob
Atomic bomb, invention of
AT&T
Augustine, Norman
B
Baby boomers
Baker, James A.
Baker, William O.
Banta, Maura
Barrett, Craig
Bartik, Jean
Bazooka, invention of
Beach, Noelle
Becker, Gary
Before It’s Too Late (National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century)
Bell, Terrel H.
Beller, Leslie
Benioff, Marc
Bennett, William
Benniga, Brant
Berliner, David
Berners-Lee, Tim
Bestor, Arthur
Biddle, Bruce
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Bingaman, ...
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