A New Agenda for Business in Improving STEM Education
By Frederick M. Hess, Andrew P. Kelly, Olivia Meeks, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, April 14, 2011
The United States has historically enjoyed astonishing success on most measures of accomplishment in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), even though international assessments repeatedly suggest that American students lag behind their peers in many nations when it comes to science and math achievement. But in an evolving world, the advantages that carried the United States through the past century appear far less likely to carry it through the next. With other nations making dramatic educational gains and challenging American supremacy in technology, fi nance, and research, our nation's continued success requires dramatic improvement when it comes to educating our youth in math and science.
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