Johnny Can So Program

theodp writes "In Johnny Can So Program, CS Prof Norm Matloff calls BS on CNET stories like Can Johnny Still Program? and Can the U.S. Still Compete?, saying it's a shame that CNET fails to cover the real threat to American technological competitiveness, the hidden agendas of Chicken Littles like Jim Foley of the Computing Research Association, David Patterson of the ACM and former Intel CEO Craig Barrett, all of whose organizations have a vested interest in playing the education card."

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Ignorance - 1, Knowledge - 0?

[Savage-Rabbit]

Sports are important in pratically every country and always get more attention then scientific achievment.

And that is a good thing? A few decades ago national pride was measured just as much in scientific and technological achievement as it was in terms of sports. These days two teams of steroid popping gorillas fighting each other over a leather ball seem to get more attention than, say, milestones in interplanetary exploration and in my book that is a sign of intellectual degeneration. Lack of interest in Science and general intellectual apathy among the population is what allows bible thumping morons to delete evolutionary theory from the science curriculum . I'm still having a hard time believing such a debate can take place in one of the worlds most advanced nations at the beginning of the 21'st century