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NASA’s latest mission can fuel STEM engagement

eSchool News

STEM education is in crisis in the United States. million STEM jobs in the U.S. It’s an exciting time for space exploration and perhaps the launch pad American educators and employers need to renew students’ interest in STEM education–and in turn, create a pipeline of new technical talent in the U.S.

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Engineers Week Feb. 18-24

Ask a Tech Teacher

Job growth from 2010 to 2014 was in the double digits in several engineering occupations. She is also the author/editor of over a hundred books on integrating tech into education, adjunct professor of technology in education, blog webmaster, an Amazon Vine Voice , and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics.

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The Importance of Developing Spatial Skills for STEM Success

MIND Research Institute

This article features contributions from MIND's Education Research Director Martin Buschkuehl. Having a deep conceptual understanding of math creates the problem-solving foundation that all areas of STEM are built on, and early math skills are powerful predictors of later learning. Spatial Skills and Gender Gaps in Higher Ed.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. A’s on the rise Percentage of ACT test takers with a grade point average of A, B, or C from 2010 to 2022 by subject.

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The First Days of the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content

User Generated Education

I believe that all classes, regardless of grade level including through graduate school, should begin with focusing on having the students make connections between themselves and the educator; and between one another. 2010; Cowan, 2012; Lohr & Haley, 2018; Sadera et al., 2009). ( Community Building in the Classroom ).

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

Edsurge

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. Yet how we devised the traditional education system, they can’t be accepted the way they are. Online education opens the door to be inclusive.

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3 keys to filling the STEM pipeline

eSchool News

Many educators are familiar with the research suggesting the demand for employees in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. For instance, the nonpartisan New American Economy notes that for every unemployed STEM worker in the United States, there were 13 job openings in 2016.

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