Students First STEM Content Second
Some perceive that the STEM education reform movement began a few years ago. It did not. STEM educators have been trying to improve the way STEM subjects are taught and to increase underrepresented students’ access to these disciplines for more than 40 years—to my knowledge, since Sputnik. The work is slow, considering how long it […]
Beyond Graphs to What Truly Matters: Resilience, Sense of Belonging, and STEM Success
On January 15, 2015, I had the opportunity to participate as a panelist at the Front and Center: Bringing Marginalized Girls into Focus in STEM and Career and Technical Education (CTE). The event was sponsored by the White House and Georgetown Center for Poverty and Inequality, Georgetown Law Center. See more at Front and Center: Girls of […]
Higher Education & Entrepreneurship
STEM Entrepreneurship can catapult students’ interest in STEM after years of marginal engagement especially from students of color. ILC will soon be writing articles on this. In the meantime, check out this great article written by Daniel Margolis for Chief Learning Officer. He quotes Cathy Ashmore, executive director of the Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education: “There […]