NPR Ed – Eric Westervelt
“Leaders in business, education and politics love to talk up how important Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education is for America’s future…”People like to talk, but the actions don’t measure up to words,” says City College of New York physics professor Michael Lubell. He’s also a fellow at the American Physical Society, which has long sounded the alarm on the need to bolster physics, science and math education. “STEM today is the child left behind. And it’s being left behind at the juvenile level,” Lubell says. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle talk about STEM as being critically important. “But the number of champions in Congress for STEM ed has actually gone down” in recent years, Brown says.”(more)