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A Surprising Approach to Science Labs for Online Students Boosts Access to STEM Fields

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But ASU has an explicit mission to help more people access higher education — including, Austin says, students from low-income families and students from underrepresented minority groups. They could succeed in STEM jobs that tend to pay well in industries that are facing pressure to increase the diversity of their workforces.

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PROOF POINTS: It’s easier and easier to get an A in math

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This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The latest warning sign comes from college admissions test maker ACT, which compared students’ ACT test scores with their self-reported high school grades between 2010 and 2022. Grades continued to rise in math and science even as grade inflation stabilized in English and social studies.

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Some rural states are cutting higher ed. One state is doing the opposite

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The hope is that if you build the institution, employers will come,” said Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, which has studied the idea on behalf of the legislature. Robert Stivers, the president of the Kentucky Senate, and the sponsor of the bill that commissioned the council’s study. “I

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

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Their work is a version of what educators call project-based learning, which means gaining knowledge by solving problems rather than by studying textbooks. Garcia and the scientists wanted to study conditions on the 300-foot-deep lakebed where the frogs live to see if changes there were responsible for the species’ dramatic decline. “We

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An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM

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Tahiv McGee, who graduated from North Star this spring and will attend Pomona College this fall, explains the research study he worked on at Rutgers-Newark. Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked with faculty and a doctoral student on a psychology research study.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

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Whittenberg, a public elementary school in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in its curriculum. Whittenberg has been around since 2010, when Greenville County Schools opened it as a magnet school in an area that is historically low-income and majority Black.

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The path to a career could start in middle school

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The early teen years are also a stage when students are especially vulnerable to “identity foreclosure,” or the walling off of certain options, such as a STEM career, as not for them, Deutsch said. She wants to study engineering in California, and recently returned from a road trip to the state, where she visited four colleges.

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