This issue brief explores the STEM workforce challenge in Missouri, where only 17 percent of Missouri 12th grade students are both proficient in math and interested in STEM.
This brief highlights an analysis of 12th grade students’ STEM interest and proficiency, which indicates that current interest in STEM fields and proficiency in math are not sufficient to meet U.S. workforce demand.
This issue brief discusses the untapped potential of STEM-interested (but not math proficient) students in increasing the STEM workforce.
This issue brief discusses the importance of cultivating new STEM talent. Innovations in science and engineering have driven economic growth in the United States over the last five decades. More recently, technology has risen to become a defining driver of productivity in business. In that context, college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines provide critical talent that fuels America’s competitive ability.
This report details a comprehensive set of recommendations that will serve as the foundation for transforming STEM education in the United States. Recognizing the innate and vital connection between top-caliber teachers, student interest, and achievement, we believe it imperative to focus on improving both the quality and the number of mathematics and science teachers. Our recommendations span three crucial areas—teacher recruitment, retention, and renewal.
Recent studies have pointed to the critical role of a highly qualified teaching workforce in raising mathematics and science achievement. However, states and schools face a host of challenges in recruiting, preparing and retaining enough highly qualified teachers: an aging teacher workforce, poor pay and working conditions, and rapid enrollment growth represent a few of these challenges. According to the Council of Chief State School Officers, the national teaching workforce includes an estimated 331,000 mathematics and science teachers in grades 7-12 alone.
Experts from Government, Business, and Higher Education Unite on a Key Workforce Need
Washington (December 17) — The Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) launched its National Undergraduate Cyber Network at an elite gathering at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Washington (August 9) — The BHEF U.S. STEM Education Model® has been honored by the National Consortium for Continuous Improvement in Higher Education (NCCI) with its 2012 Leveraging Excellence Award. NCCI recognizes initiatives that significantly scale, leverage, and impact effective higher education practices, and it commends BHEF for the use of the BHEF U.S.
Washington, DC (July 9, 2012) — More than three million unfilled jobs in the U.S. today require individuals with training and skills in science, technology, engineering, and math. In partnership with the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF), U.S. News and World Report brought together over 1,500 people in Dallas June 27-29 for U.S. News STEM Solutions 2012: A Leadership Summit to share, educate,
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