Education Week – Madeline Will
“Indeed, research shows that students who are engaged in STEM by the time they are adolescents are more likely to pursue the field as adults. But elementary teachers are generalists, and few are trained to specifically teach STEM. Just 3 percent of undergraduate elementary programs require relevant coursework—or ask candidates to pass an admissions test—in biology, chemistry, and physics or physical science, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality. Sixty-six percent of the 810 programs studied don’t require coursework in any of those core subjects.” (more)