Washington Post – Valerie Strauss
“The education reform discussion is often fraught with false choices. Consider the news last month that U.S. students are still struggling with science, according to national assessments. The same assessments showed last fall that two thirds of fourth graders are not reading proficiently. So should we invest our limited education resources in teaching critical reading skills or in what’s known as STEM — science, technology, engineering and math? The truth is, we can and must do both.” (more)