Jon Miller, the John A. Hannah Professor of integrative studies and director of the International Center for the Advancement of Scientific Literacy at Michigan State University, told a symposium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting recently that the U.S. still leads the world in science literacy. ScienceDaily reports:
 

Despite frequent warnings of the inadequacy of education in the United States, citizens here are still among the world’s most scientifically literate, a Michigan State University researcher said.

You can thank those general education requirements that force English majors to sit through biology classes and budding engineers to read Hemingway, Jon Miller said…

“What makes the American market and society different,” he said, “is that we have more science- and technology-receptive citizens and consumers, and as a society we’re willing to spend money for basic science and have been doing that for years.”

A little good news among the doom and gloom.