The Tapping America’s Potential coalition released a report assessing progress toward the goals TAP set in 2005, specifically to double the number of students graduating with a bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by 2015. Read the full report Read the executive summary Read the press release

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Business Leaders Call for Progress in Advancing U.S. Innovation by Strengthening Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
(July 15, 2008)
Tapping America's Potential (TAP), a coalition of 16 of the nation's leading business organizations, today released a report assessing three years' progress in working towards the TAP goal of doubling the number of students earning bachelor's degrees in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by 2015.

Report: US behind in doubling science grads
(July 15, 2008)
A high-profile push by business groups to double the number of U.S. bachelor's degrees awarded in science, math and engineering by 2015 is falling way behind target, a new report says. In 2005, 15 prominent business groups warned that a lack of expert workers and teachers posed a threat to U.S. competitiveness, and said the country would need 400,000 new graduates in the so-called STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields by 2015.

L'Oreal is honored for making science attractive to women
(February 10, 2008)
Not too long ago, a group of female students at Hehnly School in Clark used balloons to build flying machines as part of an "Invent Now" after-school science club. The club and several other similar science programs in the school district are sponsored by L'Oreal USA, which was honored last month with a "Friends of Education" award from the New Jersey Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development for its support of the science clubs.