In Search of a Sputnik Moment

Mrs. Davenport, my fourth-grade teacher at Fall Creek School in Ithaca, N.Y., planted her straight-backed chair in front of her desk and proceeded to lead a serious discussion, starting with a review of the news and the physics of rockets and satellites. Already, Tsinghua has two-thirds of the annua...

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Published in:ASEE prism 2006-01, Vol.15 (5), p.64-64
Main Author: Fogel, Daniel Mark
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Colleges & universities
Economic expansion
Environmental education
Grade 4
Libraries
Students
Universities
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Summary:Mrs. Davenport, my fourth-grade teacher at Fall Creek School in Ithaca, N.Y., planted her straight-backed chair in front of her desk and proceeded to lead a serious discussion, starting with a review of the news and the physics of rockets and satellites. Already, Tsinghua has two-thirds of the annual patent activity of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on a campus as impressive in its libraries, classrooms and laboratories as the great research universities of the United States.
ISSN:1056-8077
1930-6148