STEM Readings

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The following links provide interesting reading:

• MASCD Perspectives, Winter 2009 -- Future Ready: Advancing STEM Education
• Opportunity to Learn Audit: High School Science (Fall 2008) (pdf)
• Opportunity to Learn Audit: Elementary School Science (Spring 2008)
• Tomorrow's Teachers: Preparing the Education Workforce for 21st Century Schools 
• MA DOE STEM Brief
• The Case for Urgency
• Teacher Licensure Tests: Their Relationship to Mathematics Teachers' Academic Competence and Student Achievement in Mathematics
  
• Keeping America Competitive: Five Strategies to improve Mathematics and Science Education
  
• Securing America's Leadership in Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics
  
• Project Making the Grade, The Governor's Blue Ribbon Panel on Mathematics & Science Education
  
• The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Programme Report
  
• Innovation America - Building a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Agenda
  
• Draft Report Calls for National Standard for Certifying Math and Science Teachers
  
• ISTE releases draft of new tech standards
  
• Science in the Spotlight, Educational Leadership
  
• A Model Curriculum for K-12 Computer Science
  
• Partnership for the 21st Century Skills
  
• The National Academies: Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering and Medicine
  
• National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF)
  
• International Society for Technology in Education
  
• The National Science Foundation
  
• Math and Science Partnership Program
  
• National Center on Education and the Economy
  
• The Wingspread Conference
  
• The Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy
  
• The National Alliance of State Science and Mathematics
  
• Report from the Educational Testing Services Policy Information Service
  
• Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education
  
• More Female Students Pursuing Science and Engineering
  
• Lawmakers Query Bush Budget for Science Education
  
• Life-Long Computer Skills
  
• Individual Public/Private Access, Computer Access Survey Massachusetts School Districts
  
• The Triangle Coalition - Commitment to Science Math and Technology Education
  
• Overhauling the American High School Science Lab
  
• STEM News from the Board of Higher Education 
  
• The New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce
  
• The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education Web Page
  
• Tough Choices or Tough Times
  
• Trends for Women in Science and Technology
  
• Technology Counts Archive - A Digital Decade
  
• Four Schools Get Chance to Reverse Failures
  
• Inovation and STEMs Progress:  New England Mustn't Loose Its Edge
  
• Simplified Exams OK'd for More Students : Law Change is Aimed at Children With Disabilities
  
• New Breed of Digital Tutors Yielding Learning Gains
  
• Bill on Science Teacher Ed. Advances
  
• Slow to Reboot - Schools Running out of Funds to Upgrade Computers
  
• GlaxoSmithKline Foundation adds $725,000 to Women in Science Program
  
• US Mathematics Woes Add Up to Big Trouble
  
• With simplified code, programming becomes child's play
  
• Colleges and universities should take concrete actions to increase the number and improve the quality of mathematics and science teachers across the country
  
• Teaching Mathematics Requires Special Set of Skills
  
• How Dads Influence their Daughters Interest in Math
  
  

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