Posted by Dale Fleury, NMSI Regional Director
This is good news: Thanks to legislation that was recently passed by the Kentucky legislature, a new AP-related scholarship program will get underway this fall in Kentucky. The program is a terrific way to reinforce the work that NMSI and Advance Kentucky are doing to expand AP enrollments – and it should go a long way toward making college more affordable for low-income students.
Here’s how it works: The program is a new component of the existing Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship (KEES) program. Students who are eligible for free and reduced-price lunches and who make qualifying scores on Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) exams can earn scholarships to attend Kentucky colleges and universities.
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Posted by Rena Pederson, NMSI Director of Communications:
USA Today has a “science quiz” in the Aug. 13 edition that is a handy way for Americans to test themselves. It’s reinforced with a Harris survey that found 79 percent of Americans believe science is not getting enough attention in our schools – and only 35 percent believe the U.S. will be the world leader in science in the future.
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Posted by Tom Luce, NMSI CEO:
Norman J. Ornstein, who is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., has been speaking up about the need for the presidential candidates to make scientific competitiveness a core part of their campaigns. Here is the lead-in from a recent email he sent out and the links to his recent articles for AEI and Roll Call:
"Our overwhelming lead in basic scientific research and our position as home to the best scientists in the world have been the key to our international economic edge. But we are slipping badly as other nations gain strength in research and science education. Senators Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) should make scientific competitiveness a core part of their campaigns and policy agendas."
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