A recent survey shows Republican and Democratic voters alike want politicians to establish alternative pathways to the middle class. It's harder than it looks.
This month, Michigan and Massachusetts began covering tuition costs for a broader swath of state residents. Campus leaders say they are already seeing positive signs.
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Every year, Compton College administrators make a wish list of commencement speakers. This spring, when President Keith Curry saw Kendrick Lamar’s name on the list, a light bulb went off.
In the United States, we lament the lack of diversity in STEM fields and in teacher education, but many of our actions as educators continue to "weed out" students from nondominant communities and those who are differently abled.
Despite a push for greater STEM instruction, students and teachers continue to experience inequitable access to STEM-related classes and resources, according to a new survey of 1,200 schools and 7,600 teachers.
Federal STEM education programs need better coordination, finds a new report by the Government Accountability Office—the federal government's watchdog arm. In 2010 Congress created the Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics to review some 163 STEM education programs in
High schools with a greater menu of science, technology, engineering, and math classes did not produce students more likely to declare a STEM major in college—or to earn a degree in a STEM subject—than their peers, concludes a new longitudinal study.
The OECD recently issued its new book-length report, "Measuring Innovation in Education 2019." Today, I'll flag five big questions the report helps answer about international STEM instruction.
The Next Generation Science Standards call for more "computational thinking" in middle school science. Two pilot projects at the American Educational Research Association meeting look at why that's difficult, and ways to do it.
