U.S. News & World Report – Alan Neuhauser
“Integrating Common Core education standards involves integrating once-disparate school subjects with one another, experts said Tuesday at the 2015 U.S. News STEM Solutions Conference in San Diego. “Thinking about the standards as being integrated really can push you,” said Thomas Smith, dean and professor of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California—Riverside. “What can an English teacher do to help reinforce the math and science standards in their classroom when it comes to writing? What sort of writing activities would you expect to have in a mathematics class?” It’s those expectations, he and other panelists said, that can help students develop not only science, technology, engineering and math proficiency, but true STEM “fluency.””(more)