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2.0 Efforts to Avert the Storm
2.0 Efforts to Avert the Storm
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Bush included many of the report's recommendations in his 2006 State of the Union Address and in the days immediately fol lowing the address traveled extensively, speaking in part about the report's highest priority findings -- K-12 education and basic research. Implementing-legislation with 62 co-sponsors was promptly introduced in the United States Senate.
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During the first two years following the release of the Gathering Storm report the principal impact of the efforts by the Academies and a wide array of interested constituencies -- including the Council on Competitiveness, the Business Roundtable, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, and others -- was to forestall actions that would otherwise have diminished America's competitiveness. A private-sector organization, the National Math and Science Initiative, was established based on the Gathering Storm recommendations to increase participation in Advance Placement courses in high school and to provide additional teachers qualified in mathematics and science.1 SUbSEqUENT FOLLOW-UP Responding to the severe downturn of the economy in the fall of 2008, "stimulus legislation," designated the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or ARRA, was introduced.
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OvERALL STATUS OF FOLLOW-UP Table 2-1, derived from an assessment conducted by the Congressional Research Service, summarizes recent Congressional actions, or lack thereof, in response to each of the National Academies' recommendations and implementing actions in Rising Above the Gathering Storm. Today, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, intended as a one-time action, is nearing expiration.
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Some steps taken to enhance K-12 education have been noteworthy as well, but in terms of actual implementation have fallen far short of the Gathering Storm committee's recommendations. Similarly, such actions as increasing the granting of H-1B visas; making the R&D tax credit permanent; changing intellectual property laws; modernizing export control policies; and assuring that qualified math and science teachers are available to every student, have languished.
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. week summer institutes to upgrade the skills Obama Administration argues that this corresponds to of as many as 50,000 practicing teachers each DOE Academies Creating Teacher Scientists program.
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Action B-4: Allocate at least 8% of the budgets America COMPETES contains "sense of the Congress" of federal research agencies to discretionary language encouraging agencies to allocate a portion of funding of high-risk, high-payoff research. basic research funding to transformative projects.
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progress in streamlining security screening. Action C-5: Provide a 1-year automatic visa By regulation, the Office of Citizenship and extension to international students who receive Immigration Services extended the optional practical doctorates or the equivalent in STEM fields at training period for F-1 nonimmigrant students with qualified U.S.
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Patent and Trademark Since 2005, various appropriations acts have provided Office with sufficient resources to make the United States Patent and Trademark Office with intellectual-property protection more timely, budget authority to spend all fees collected, effectively predictable, and effective. providing additional resources to this agency.
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NOTE: Appendixes E and F of the original Gathering Storm report provide cost estimates for implementing the recommendations. Making a specific assessment of Congressional actions and executive branch implementation against the recommendations would require additional information and analysis.
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