Best Practices

Bayer Corporation. Science Make Sense: Planting the Seeds for a Diverse U.S. STEM Pipeline: A Compendium of Best Practice K-12 STEM Education Programs. Available at http://www.bayerus.com/MSMS/stem/COMPENDIUM.pdf. Last accessed February 2008.

BEST (Building Engineering & Science Talent). Home page. Available at http://www.bestworkforce.org Last accessed February 2008.

Building Engineering & Science Talent: BEST was launched in 2001 to follow through on recommendations of the Congressional Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology Development. BEST convened the nation’s respected practitioners, researchers and policymakers and identify “what’s working” across the country to develop the technical talent of under-represented groups in pre-K through 12, higher education, and the workplace. No comprehensive assessment on this scale had ever been attempted. Three blue ribbon panels published their reports in 2004. http://www.bestworkforce.org

National Governors Association. Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math (STEM) Education webpage. Available at http://www.nga.org Last accessed February 2008.

The NGA Center for Best Practices is focusing on redesigning and improving state K-12 science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education systems through Arizona Governor Napolitano's initiative as NGA Chair, Innovation America. The work on K-12 STEM education is linked to the other two areas of the chair's initiative; enabling state postsecondary education systems to better support innovation and encouraging business innovation through supportive state policies. http://www.nga.org