Redesigning Education: Building Schools for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science." --Carl Sagan

Not since the Soviets launched Sputnik into Earth's orbit in the 1960s has there been such urgency for America to redesign science and math education programs. Now, in the third millennium, the initiative takes the form of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education. Research demonstrates that interest among American students in STEM...