Introduction -- Elementary and secondary education: shaping the pool -- Higher education for science and engineering -- Policy issues and options.

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Examines how children behave when they or their caregiver is ill, discussing methods of offering reassurance and explaining the situation in terms the child can understand.

Are we producing too many PhDs? Does the current graduate education system adequately prepare science and engineering students for today's marketplace? How do foreign students enter the picture? What should be the PhD of the future? These and other questions are addressed in this book by a blue-ribbon panel of scientists and engineers. Recommendations are aimed at creating a new PhD that would retain the existing strengths of the current system while substantially increasing the information available, the potential versatility of students, and the career options afforded to them by their PhD education.