At both the state and national level, the importance of a technologically literate workforce is essential to meeting the challenges of the 21st Century. Preparing students for this workforce depends ...

Suggested Citation: "7 Student Pathways Through Undergraduate STEM Curricula." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education: Supporting ...

When we discuss STEM education, it's easy to focus on acts of teaching and learning. But if our vision of STEM is only confined to the classroom, we risk ignoring a large portion of what the true ...

As a nation, we need to begin approaching STEM as a culture, not as content. As a larger community of educators, industry leaders, and government leaders, we need to examine how we are currently ...

STEM workforce shortages are a well-known global issue. With demand set to rise by nearly 11 percent in the next decade, today’s students are the solution. They will be the ones to make the next big ...

Turns out, intelligence isn’t cool. At least not in the opinions of some middle school students, especially girls. Implicit biases—such as girls aren't as good as boys in science and math—have ...

Career and technical education programs more deeply engage students in their coursework as shown by the fact that students who concentrate in CTE have a high school graduation rate of 90 percent—much ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Escalante M.D. covers neurodiversity, pediatrics and parenting. What makes someone a creative person? For most of us, the ...

Addressing inequities within the system of higher education involves making changes at every level of the institution that enable instructors to improve instruction in ways that benefit all students.

We prepare students to be able to communicate their expertise of STEM concepts and to work collaboratively and effectively with others. The undergraduate certificate in STEM education provides STEM ...