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The new administration has identified math, science, and technology education as high priorities. Increased development of STEM Schools (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) is emerging as a clear solution to the administration's priority. Already a significant movement in Texas, Ohio and elsewhere, STEM schools are an answer to preparing a globalized workforce for the 21st century. STEM schools also provide a new opportunity for previously underserved urban students and opens fields often closed to them.

October 22-23, 2009, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (click here for directions) During this meeting, PCAST heard presentations on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, the role of science and technology in foreign policy and development assistance, and discuss its other activities. An archive of the video webcast is available by clicking on the figure below.

STEM education for girls

"Genomics Digital Lab (GDL) Project GDL was created in conjunction with ASPB member and GAP winner David Salt's Genomics eXplorer, an interactive walk-through plant cell museum exhibit. GDL, a first place winner in the NSF 2008 Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, offers a series of curriculum-aligned and integrated games, modules, and interactive simulations covering an array of topics in biology. GDL is a continually expanding interactive on-line environment where users experience the world of biology through discovery-based learning. "

BEoN, a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project of the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) and Access Excellence at the National Health Museum (AE@NHM) is a part of the National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL). This peer reviewed e-journal is by and for those teaching K-16 life sciences.

The plan will address the imperatives of global competition, Cator said, but also will stress the importance of global interdependence. It will focus on ensuring effective teachers are present "in every zip code," on seamlessly bridging the gap between the wide array of technology students use outside of school and the more limited technology available to them in the classroom. She said America's ed-tech plan will promote careers in science, technology, engineering, and math--but now will add an emphasis on the arts, because, as Cator explained, creativity is essential to lifelong success in the age of technology.

College of William and Mary