Winter 2013 Issue

• RIP: The Basic/Applied Research Dichotomy
• Pathways to the Middle Class: Balancing Personal and Public Responsibilities
• Staying in School: A Proposal for Raising High-School Graduation Rates
• Changing the Way We Account for College Credit
• Four Technologies and a Conundrum: The Glacial Pace of Energy Innovation

Published quarterly, Issues in Science and Technology is a forum for discussion of public policy related to science, engineering, and medicine. This includes policy for science (how we nurture the health of the research enterprise) and science for policy (how we use knowledge more effectively to achieve social goals). Our goals are to improve the effectiveness of public and private policy in making a better world and to raise the level of debate and mutual respect among all those who appreciate the critical contributions of science and technology.