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Comprehensive Planning for STEM Education

October 29, 2007

The U.S. education system needs a coherent, comprehensive, sustained, and integrated nationwide approach to improvement of the quality, accessibility, and real-world relevance of science, math, engineering, and technology (STEM) education. Susan Millar and colleagues are building on the significant intellectual and human capital developed over the last 2 decades as part of initiatives designed to improve postsecondary STEM education. Their work aims to articulate, and then realize, the role that improved STEM education must play in addressing the serious problems evident in our physical and social environments. These problems relate to (among other things) the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we produce, and the energy we use. Millar says that realizing this goal will require devising effective strategies for (a) disseminating evidence-based knowledge and resources to all postsecondary institutions and (b) encouraging use of this knowledge and these resources.