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STEM Educational Reform

Over the last several decades, educational reform in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) has involved many people and organizations. The need for reform has been discussed at many levels and has produced a variety of publications (see below). To produce a STEM-literate society, many STEM organizations have produced a variety of publications (see links below) aimed at improving STEM education in our nation’s schools (see links below). Educators at all levels have used these publications to identify and teach the concepts and skills needed by PK-16 students to produce a STEM literate society.

Need for STEM education reform & associated groups:

Achieve, Inc. and the National Governors Assoc. http://www.achieve.org/

• America’s High Schools: The front line in the battle for our economic future. http://inpathways.net/america-hs.pdf

• An action agenda for improving America’s high schools. http://www.nga.org/cda/files/0502actionagenda.pdf

• Rising to the challenge: are high school graduates prepared for college and work? http://www.achieve.org/node/548

• Advantage Wisconsin (U. of Wisconsin Strategic Framework) http://advantage.wisconsin.edu/

AAAS Education

• Science Education Reform for All http://ehrweb.aaas.org/ehr/sera/

• Center for Science, Technology and Congress http://www.aaas.org/spp/cstc/stc/Archive_home.shtml

• Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology http://www.aaas.org/programs/centers/pe/            

•  Science’s Education Forum http://www.sciencemag.org/education/

AAAS Project 2061. 1990. Science for All Americans

AAAS Project 2061. 1997. Resources for Science Literacy: Professional development.

AAAS Project 2061. 1998. Blueprints for Reform

AAAS’s Science & Technology Newsletter  

AAAS’s Science Careers http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/            

Rising Above “The Gathering Storm” http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/2007_12_14/caredit_a0700179/(parent)/158

Am. Assoc. of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) http://www.aacte.org/

• Government Relations http://aacte.org/index.php?/Government-Relations/

• Preparing STEM Teachers: The key to global competitiveness http://aacte.org/pdf/Legislation_Center/AACTE STEM publication.pdf

TechAmerica  http://www.techamerica.org/

• Losing the competitive advantage? Updated version http://www.techamerica.org/we-are-still-losing-the-competitive-advantage-2

Aspirnaunt Initiative http://www.aspirnaut.org/  

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) http://www.ascd.org/Default.aspx  

Best in Class:  How Top Corporations Can Help Transform Public Education http://www.fsg.org/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/PDF/Best_in_Class.pdf?cpgn=WP%20DL%20-%20Best%20in%20Class

Business-Higher Education Forum http://www.bhef.com/

• A commitment to America’s future http://hub.mspnet.org/index.cfm/11853

• Building a nation of learners http://www.bhef.com/publications/documents/building_nation_03.pdf

Business Roundtable http://www.businessroundtable.org/

• Tapping America’s potential http://www.tapcoalition.org/

Center on Education Policy

• Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era http://www.cep-dc.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=document.showDocumentByID&nodeID=1&DocumentID=212
   

Coble, C. and M. Allen. 2005. Keeping America Competitive: Five strategies to improve mathematics and science education.

Committee for Economic Development http://www.ced.org/

• Learning for the future http://www.ced.org/images/library/reports/education/report_scientists.pdf

Common Ground Initiative (Math education)

Competitive Wisconsin http://www.competitivewi.com/

COSEPUP. 2006. Rising Above the Gathering Storm.

Educational Testing Service (ETS). 2006. Keeping Our Edge: Americans Speak on Education and Competitiveness

EPE Research Center, "Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career”

Glenn Commission. 2000. Before It’s Too Late: A Report to the Nation from the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century.

Grunewald and Rolnick. 2006. A proposal for achieving high returns on early childhood development.

Mathematicians and Education Reform Forum (MER)

National Academies http://www.nationalacademies.org/

• Rising Above the Gathering Storm http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11463

• Resources for Involving Scientists in Education (RISE) http://www.nas.edu/rise/

National Alliance of State Science & Mathematics Coalitions http://www.nassmc.org/index.html

National Center for Education Statistics

• Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

• Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)

National Center for Technological Literacy

National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future

National Digital Science Library’s Project TestDrive http://www.tomorrow.org/research/testdrive.html

National Institute for Early Education Research http://nieer.org/

National Mathematics Advisory Panel

National Academy of Sciences http://www.nas.edu/          

• Sounds of Science podcasts http://media.nap.edu/podcasts/nax42readysetsc.mp3

National Research Council

• BIO2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists http://www.nap.edu/books/0309085357/html/

• Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8 http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11625

• How People Learn http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=9853

• How Students Learn http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10126 
   

National Science Board (NSB)

• America's Pressing Challenge — Building a Stronger Foundation. A companion to Science and Engineering Indicators.

• A NATIONAL ACTION PLAN FOR ADDRESSING THE CRITICAL NEEDS OF THE U.S. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION SYSTEM

• National Science Board Hearings on 21st Century Education in Science, Mathematics, and Technology

• Science and Engineering Indicators 2006

• Science and Engineering Indicators 2008

• Science and Engineering Indicators 2010

• Science and Engineering Indicators 2012

NSTA’s New Science Teacher Academy

New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce

NOYCE Foundation
 

National Science Foundation:

• GK-12 Partnership Program

• Report on Urban Systemic Program: “What works best in science & mathematics education reform”

• Students Benefit from Undergraduate Research. NSF press release 07-051 http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108939

OECD Education at a Glance 2006

Partnership for 21st Century Skills http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

Quality Counts 2007. From Cradle to Career: connecting American education from birth to adulthood.

Santiago Declaration

Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) http://wdr.doleta.gov/SCANS/

Sirica, C. Landmark AAAS/UNESCO Forum Explores Science Education

Science & Math Teacher Imperative

Mathematics & Science Teacher Imperative

STEM Ed Caucus Steering Committee (U.S. House of Representatives)

• Minnesota http://www.stemedcaucus.org/content/documents/state_profiles/STEMEdMinnesota06.pdf

• Wisconsin http://www.stemedcaucus.org/content/documents/state_profiles/STEMEdWisc06.pdf

STEM Education Coalition http://www.stemedcoalition.org/

Task Force on the Future of American Innovation http://www.futureofinnovation.org/

Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)

Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education http://www.triangle-coalition.org/  

U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  Tapping America’s Potential.  2005.  http://www.uschamber.com/publications/reports/050727_tap.htm  

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Issues in Schools http://cfpub.epa.gov/schools/index.cfm   

U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions http://help.senate.gov/  

Wisconsin Technology Council http://www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com/

Additional Reference Material

Darling-Hammond, L. & J. Bransford. 2005. Preparing Teachers for a Changing World: What teachers should learn and be able to do. Jossey-Bass. San Francisco.

Douglas, R. et. al. 2006. Linking Science and Literacy in the K-8 Classroom. NSTA Press. Arlington, VA.

Lambert, N. & B. McCombs (eds). 1998. How Students Learn: Reforming schools through learner-centered education. American Psychological Association. Washington DC.

National Research Council. 2005. How Students Learn: History, mathematics, and science in the classroom. National Academy Press, Washington DC.
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