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STEM Research Headlines

Integrated skills and relevant approaches are the direction most research is pushing as effective ways of teaching STEM
Focus needs to be preK -20 to really establish change. This is a major undertaking.
STEM needs to become more appealing to minority populations: not the suburban student if can be used as an economic stimulus and driver.
There is not a singular formula that will work for everyone – think globally, act locally is a good idea to remember when it comes to system change.
There are resources and information available for districts/states/classrooms – but overhauling the system is costly and requires a commitment beyond what we have had in the past. Without assurances that any major overhaul will increase student achievement – this is almost impossible to sell.

Children should be led to make their own investigations, and to draw upon their own inferences. They should be told as little as possible.

Herbert Spencer. Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical. 1864