July 19, 2017
Education Dive reported that former federal accountability measures under No Child Left Behind, as well as Common Core standards derived from them, primarily emphasized reading and math, which left many schools pushing science education to the background. However, this created serious gaps in learning for students and a general lack of interest in science education overall. Education Dive also reports that in considering the K-12 to workforce pipeline, employers are increasingly concerned that students will not be able to fill jobs and cites this page from the Smithsonian Science Education Center, which shows that STEM jobs are not only growing, but that many STEM jobs will go unfilled due to lack of qualified candidates.
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