Eric Jolly: We need to better engage kids in science and math: "Minnesota will face a 10 percent decrease in the number of high school students over the next 10 years. (Most states will have a 4 percent increase.) While the overall number of students declines, minority students will increase 51 percent over the next decade. These are not the students our system is succeeding with; in fact, fewer than 1 in 5 minority students currently go to college. Therein lies the critical challenge. Fewer kids in high school means fewer kids in college. And the kids for whom we really need to increase college participation are those our current educational system is least successful with."