Basics - STEM Education Has Little to Do With Flowers - NYTimes.com

[victor steinbok]

Another anti-initialism/acronym diatribe on NYT pages. In this case, it
mostly focuses on one--"STEM Education". I find the argument not
particularly persuasive--it's the same tired complaint about opaqueness of
jargon abbreviations (the target happens to be my primary field, so it
doesn't really bother me at all).

But there's a nice Sally Ride quote:

>Sally Ride concurred: "With my NASA heritage, I'm perfectly capable of
speaking entirely in acronyms, including the verbs," she said. "But this is
not very helpful when talking to the public."

The story is here http://nyti.ms/LxpbAT
Or use the single-page link  http://goo.gl/5nbTcK

VS-)

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