A national priority for decades now is to improve our STEM education. STEM means science, technology, engineering, and math. The reality is that our country churns out students who are subpar, on an international basis, in these areas which puts our nation and our citizens at a disadvantage.
There has not been any dramatic improvement in STEM education in the elite or general population. I’m curious what other homeschoolers think: any idea how to improve STEM education? I’m particularly interested in ideas that deal with starting improvement in the K8 population.
I started thinking about STEM for the rest of us when I read a new blog on the topic. I found that the STEM term was not that useful to google since I ended up in the stem cell research area. Science for the rest of us produces a suggested science reading list, a social networking site where we can self publish our science articles (huh?), and a funny glossary illustrating what pseudo scientific jargon actually means.
What I mean by “science for the rest of us” is education that affects not just the small minority that are very scientifically oriented but the general population that is being educated or at least, the population that is college-bound.
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