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Measuring Progress on STEM a Challenge
Tweet Share on Facebook June 27, 2012 CommentQuick: How do you find the volume of a cone?
It's safe to say that a vast majority of adult Americans don't know the answer to that question. And though he is working to improve STEM education, Sam Houston, CEO of North Carolina Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Center, said at U.S. News' 2012 STEM Summit that there's no reason to expect a better outcome.
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Social Media Respond to U.S. News STEM Solutions Opening Panel
Tweet Share on Facebook June 27, 2012 CommentStarting Wednesday, U.S.News & World Report has partnered with Innovate + Educate, and STEMconnector to host the first-ever STEM Solutions Summit in Dallas. The opening panel, which preceded the launch of STEMx—a partnership of Battelle and 13 state STEM education networks—discussed a wide range of topics around the field of STEM.
Conference attendees and people interested in the field of STEM joined in on the #STEMSolutions12 discussion on Twitter.
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STEM Experts: Need To Focus on More Than Just The Numbers
Tweet Share on Facebook June 27, 2012 CommentDALLAS--How do you measure the success of an education system? Graduation rates? Getting kids past the university gates? At the U.S. News 2012 STEM Summit, state STEM experts talked about the weaknesses of common educational indicators-and the damages that focusing on simplistic data can do to schools on a state and national level.
Improving high school graduation rates, for example, can distract from the issue of college readiness.
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Department of Energy Labs Push to Fill STEM Void
Tweet Share on Facebook June 27, 2012 CommentDALLAS—The Department of Energy's 19 "National Labs" have pushed the envelope for years, doing the work that private industry and universities "can't ... won't ... or shouldn't do," and they're beginning to usher in the latest generation of American scientists with public-private partnerships and "STEM hubs" near many of their campuses.
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STEMx National Network Launched at STEM Solutions Event
Tweet Share on Facebook June 27, 2012 CommentDALLAS—To kick off the U.S. News STEM Solutions 2012 summit, basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and a host of science, technology, engineering, and math leaders announced the formation of STEMx, a multi-state network that will help connect policymakers with teachers, business leaders, and STEM organizations.
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U.S. News Kicks Off STEM Solutions Summit in Dallas
Tweet Share on Facebook June 27, 2012 CommentU.S. News & World Report has spent the past year highlighting the complex science, technology, engineering, and math education problem in the United States, in which a shortage of qualified tech workers has caused America to fall behind economically. Despite a high unemployment rate nationally, thousands of technology jobs have gone unfilled because companies can't find workers to hire.
It's time for solutions.
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Video: Norman Augustine on the STEM Crisis
Tweet Share on Facebook June 22, 2012 CommentIn advance of U.S. News's STEM Solutions Summit in Dallas Wednesday through Friday, Editor Brian Kelly sat down with Norman Augustine, former CEO of Lockheed Martin, to talk about the education crisis in America.
Augustine rang alarm bells in 2005 with the publication of Rising Above the Gathering Storm, a paper by the National Academy of Sciences that said if the United States didn't improve its math and science achievement, the country would fall behind its global competitors.
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Want Some Venture Capital Money With That Middle School Diploma?
Tweet Share on Facebook June 21, 2012 CommentWhen students from Sells Middle School in Dublin, Ohio head off to high school next year, they'll potentially take something with them—a U.S. patent.
Students from that school and the Shelton Public School District in Connecticut tied for first place in the FIRST Lego League Global Innovation Challenge for their food safety innovations.
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Companies Increasingly Influencing College STEM Programs
Tweet Share on Facebook June 13, 2012 CommentTechnology companies are having trouble hiring skilled workers, but in some communities, they think they've found an answer. A growing number of companies are partnering with universities to form specialized programs designed to give students the experience needed to work at the company.
Monday, the Business-Higher Education Forum—a consortium of CEOs and university presidents—announced 12 new programs nationwide that will help train students for specific careers. At the University of Maryland-College Park, Northrop Grumman will fund a new cybersecurity program, while Sherwin Williams has partnered with Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland to form a materials science program.
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STEM Competition Season Wraps Up With Winners All Around
Tweet Share on Facebook June 6, 2012 CommentIt's the end of the school year, which means the end of lots of national STEM competitions. Within the past few weeks, contests such as the Intel Science Fair, MATHCOUNTS, and the National STEM Education Video Game Challenge have wrapped up. Here's what you missed.
Jack Andraka of Crownsville, Md., won the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair for his new, noninvasive pancreatic cancer screening method. His test is similar to a diabetes test and is more than 90 percent accurate at diagnosing early stage pancreatic cancer. He says the test could one day be used to detect ovarian and lung cancers.
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