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Title: Demographics and Education in the Twenty-First Century

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: The National Academy of Sciences’ (2007) report, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, called for more scientific and technical innovation to maintain America’s economic growth and vitality. Countless other reports have called for more science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, culminating in Obama’s 2009 Educate to Innovate initiative. The thinking goes, the more STEM knowledge students gain, the more prepared they will be for the twenty-first-century knowledgebased economy. The problem is that STEM jobs account for merely 5 percent of all U.S. jobs, which suggests that prudent allocation of resources is a principal consideration: Do all students need STEM education, or should it be focused primarily on the mathematically and scientifically inclined? And if so, what are the implications for the majority who are not? In this connection, demographics may hold the key to developing a more pragmatic twenty-first-century solution to educational . . .

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Authors: Eng, Norman

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Volume Title: Curriculum and Learning

Publisher: CUNY Academic Works

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Other

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