Educational Resources, Learning and Professional Development

Matt Frankenbery | 04/01/2012

Science. Technology. Engineering. Mathematics. Just hearing these words individually causes concern in many students. Bring the subjects together under the STEM umbrella, and students’ ears begin to perk in curiosity. Implement an integrated, hands-on, relevant STEM program centered on career exploration, and hardly any student fails to hear the resounding message: “This is your future.” Read More...

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Maxine Bleich | 04/01/2012

Today there is a widening and deepening national awareness of the significance of high school, college, and graduate-level preparation in STEM to the United States’ primacy in innovation and in the global marketplace. Paradoxically, the nation’s K-12 preparation for STEM-based careers appears to be at an all-time low. Read More...

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Bart A. Aslin | 04/01/2012

New manufacturing thrives on and drives innovation, and in the US we have a gold mine of future innovators. Right now, they are two years old and their parents are reading bedtime stories while holding an iPad or a Kindle. By 2031, these children will be candidates for advanced manufacturing positions. Their ability to innovate will be predicated on their parents and teachers encouraging their creativity and imagination with a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education; and their introduction to these technologies at an early age is raising the bar on how they learn. Read More...

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NICOLA SOARES | 11/27/2011

STEM education has been a huge focus in conversations about education. There is a continuing need to address the U.S.’s falling rankings in STEM subject areas on a global basis and schools need to do a better job of getting students engaged in the STEM topics. Kelly Services, a leader in providing workforce solutions, compiled information from studies by the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Science Foundation and the Bureau of Labor Statistics to take a look at some recent trends in STEM and some forecasting for the future of STEM, as it relates to career prospects, student proficiency and interest in STEM education in our schools. Read More...

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VICE ADMIRAL GERRY HOEWING, MARC WATSON and DR. PAM NORTHRUP | 11/27/2011

“You have been chosen, as part of a select group of teens, to test pilot the latest in Transformer Aircraft simulators aboard the National Flight Academy (NFA) Ambition, at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. The missions are real; the challenges are critical. You will have to understand your objectives; chose the transformer characteristics to meet the demands; and pilot the aircraft to mission success. Do you have The Right Stuff?” Read More...

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SUSAN KANNEL | 11/27/2011

Workforce preparation for the “evolving information industry” is both complicated and critical. It involves two equally challenging questions which need to be continually answered: Where is the industry headed? And what workforce skills are required to get there? Just 10 years ago, telecom innovation included a fax machine — second phone line — in every home and an exorbitantly expensive cell phone the size of a brick. Today consumers expect to be connected at all times to phone, text, movies, shopping, social media and music, using a growing variety of interchangeable devices — all available at competitive prices. Read More...

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BY BART A. ASLIN and JOHN HELFEN | 08/09/2011

While experts debate about everyone needing some college education – the workplace is linking middle-class employability to postsecondary education and training. Are parents, teachers and students on the right track? Every time we turn on the television, media outlets seem to be commenting on the failing education system in this country. At least the word “education” is making the nightly news. We think unparalleled attention being paid to the topic of education and the importance of STEM is long overdue. It’s time for all of us to consider more collaboration for more immediate solutions. Read More...

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Celia Clark | 08/09/2011

The current state of computer technology allows developers to simulate almost any experience from the horror of wars to idyllic getaways. This technology is being harnessed for the creation of experiential learning tools. Some might question the value of electronic vs. real-life experiences. Nowhere does the debate rage more hotly than in high school biology labs, where simulations are now a viable alternative to wet lab dissections. Many students are reluctant to cut up animals in the pursuit of learning – and many educators insist that cutting up preserved specimens is the only way to effectively learn anatomy and physiology. Read More...

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Bart A. Aslin | 03/21/2011

Stealth, what does it mean? According to Webster, stealth means “Flying under the wire unobserved and unacknowledged.” The word has been used to describe technology, business behavior, a computer virus and even a roller-coaster. Surprisingly, the word “stealth” has also been applied to engineering in saying it is a stealth profession. But how can that be? It defies logic — as a country, it’s time we pay more attention to the silent “E” in STEM education. Read More...

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DAVID MARSLAND | 03/21/2011

Who could have guessed that a gift from an illegitimate son of an English lord would lead to the formation of the world’s most famous museum and research complexes, one that is situated in Washington DC and is visited by millions of excited visitors each year? The bequest of $580,000, a fortune when it was donated in 1846, was made by James Smithson, a member of Britain’s Royal Society. Smithson was an analytical chemist of some repute in Europe. The institution his fortune provided for was, of course, the Smithsonian Institution — its goal was the “diffusion of knowledge.” Read More...

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Jill Rosenblum | 03/21/2011

The Challenge Among the 13 southeastern states, 10 currently have an Algebra I graduation requirement, and two more will have one in the 2011–2012 school year. This means that every student graduating from high school will need to succeed in algebra. Read More...

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