Why Isn’t America Awesome at STEM Education?
Figuring Out How the Nation That Leads the World in Innovation Can Do a Better Job of Teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
The World Economic Forum ranks the United States 52nd in the world in the quality of its math and science education. What are we doing wrong? Arizona Daily Star education reporter Alexis Huicochea opened an event co-presented by the Arizona State University Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College on the state of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in America with this question. ASU science education scholar Dale Baker said that there are three reasons the country is lagging behind. She warned the crowd at the Hotel Congress in Tucson …
