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Press Release: National Science Foundation Requests $6.43 Billion for Fiscal Year 2008

National Science Foundation Requests $6.43 Billion for Fiscal Year 2008
Increase keeps agency on track with American Competitiveness Initiative

Excerpt from press release:
"Traditional approaches to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education does not take full advantage of communications technologies, new concepts and tools, and convergence among disciplines. Yet, recent analysis of NSF's Math and Science Partnership program showed that participating elementary, middle- and high-school students improved in mathematics and science proficiency over the 3-year survey period. Projects in the current MSP portfolio are expected to impact more than 141,000 science and mathematics teachers and 4.2 million students in 550 local school districts."

For more information:

• FY 2008 Budget Request for the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
  Page three of this report may be particularly helpful in understanding the changes anticipated for EHR.


• Overview of FY 2008 Budget Request for all of NSF
  See page five for specific mention of the MSP Program.