Time Warner Cable, which launched its Connect a Million Minds (CAMM) initiative with President Obama in 2009, today returned to the White House to launch a new segment of its $100 million campaign to inspire the next More »
Time Warner Cable Announces “Stem in Sports” Campaign
April 22nd, 2013 by Brad Graham
Next Generation Science Standards Released
April 19th, 2013 by Carolyne Hart
The Next Generation Science Standards released this week are designed to address a deficiency in U.S. science education: most high school students can scratch the scientific surface – follow instructions, More »
New Guidelines Call for Broad Changes in Science Education
April 19th, 2013 by Carolyne Hart
New science education guidelines, known as the Next Generation Science Standards, are meant to do for science what a separate set of guidelines known as the Common Core is supposed to do for English and More »
Engineering Design Advanced Placement Program Under Review
April 19th, 2013 by Carolyne Hart
Advanced Placement (AP) courses and exams help high school students earn college credit before they leave high school. Today there are ten different STEM related AP programs: Biology, Calculus AB and CD, Chemistry, Computer More »
Stemming the Tide: New Study Examines Why Women Leave Engineering
April 18th, 2013 by Brad Graham
After years of increases, the number of women graduating with undergraduate engineering degrees in the United More »
Women Are Making Gains In Booming Tech-Consulting Market
April 16th, 2013 by Brad Graham
While the average unemployment rate for technology professionals is a mere 3.5 percent — significantly lower than the national average of 7.7 percent — the rates vary by job function. Among Web developers, it’s just 1.0 percent, whereas More »
NASA and STEM Education Programs Face Consolidation
April 10th, 2013 by Brad Graham
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has just released President Obama’s budget request for 2014. It will take More »
Contextualizing the Conversation on Women and STEM
April 9th, 2013 by Brad Graham
The acronym, STEM, regularly appears in newspapers, blogs, scholarly journals, and even presidential addresses, as part of a national conversation about education, jobs, and the economy. Much of the time, the conversation is More »
