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Colleges Can Make Calculus a Gateway — Not a Gatekeeper — to STEM Fields

Edsurge

With science and technology jobs expected to grow twice as fast as other occupations over the next decade amid rapidly shifting demographics , creating a robust and diverse pipeline into STEM fields is essential to ensuring U.S. But neither will happen unless we address the fundamental gatekeeper to all STEM fields: undergraduate calculus.

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The Importance of Developing Spatial Skills for STEM Success

MIND Research Institute

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. Having well-developed spatial skills is very important for advanced STEM coursework, and many STEM-related occupations.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

The early results of her randomized control trial were so extraordinary that her study influenced not only CUNY in 2016 but also California lawmakers in 2017 to start phasing out remedial education in their state. Most importantly, it studied math, often an insurmountable requirement for many students to complete their college degrees.

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Why This College Student Created a Coloring Book to Celebrate Black Women in STEM

Edsurge

EdSurge: Why did you decide to create a coloring book, of all things, about Black women in STEM? That was a breakthrough for me because I was like, “How do I become more hands on and vocal during these team meetings?” What have your experiences with representation in STEM been like? Then in March 2020, the pandemic hit.

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Part 2: Over 150 STEM Resources for PBL and Authentic Learning… Technology

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to number two in a series of four posts bringing you over 150 amazing resources for STEM education. I hope you enjoyed my thoughts of STEM being a Verb a few posts back, along with the 40 resources geared toward STEM Science in the last pos t. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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To attract more students to STEM fields in college, advocates urge starting in sixth grade

The Hechinger Report

After three years in the program, McKinnon was accepted to Morehouse College in Atlanta, a historically Black men’s college, where he is now a sophomore studying applied physics and mechanical engineering on a full-ride scholarship from SMASH. Latinos represented about 16% of the country’s workforce, but only about 7% of the STEM workforce.

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Computational Thinking Strategies to Support Young Children’s Learning

Digital Promise

How CT can be linked with other STEM subjects promoted in early learning, such as math and science. For example, the team designed “Playdough Workshop,” where children are invited to engage in problem decomposition as they identify the large task and then smaller tasks needed to successfully make the playdough creations.

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