Published On: March 16th, 2017|

Pay Scale – Anne Holub

“Even if you don’t have kids, you should care about STEM education in schools. After all, our future depends on today’s students becoming tomorrow’s innovators and business leaders, and that means getting a solid foundation in science, technology, engineering, and math — no matter what field they enter. Dr. Melanie LaForce, Principal Research Scientist at Outlier Research & Evaluation at the University of Chicago, warns that all students need STEM, even if they plan to make their living far outside of the computer lab. “All students should learn how to do some coding, even if they don’t plan for a career in [computer science],” she says, in a recent interview with PayScale.”(more)