| Title | Organization/Source | Description |
| 20 Websites Useful to Scientists, Engineers | Philadelphia Examiner | A list of 20 great websites that every scientist, engineering, or geek-at-heart ought to know about. |
| A New View of Why Women Shun Science Careers | Tom Jacobs, Miller McCune | Tom Jacobs shares the results of a study from a team of Miami University researchers which shows that "women perceive STEM careers as largely incompatible with one of their core goals: Engaging in work that helps others." |
| Aerospace Engineering Teacher's Guide | Celeste Baine | This guide launches into aerospace with five activities and three challenges using four different types of rockets. Learn about testing and controlling variables with straw rockets, fuel pressure with air-powered rockets, fuel volume and trajectory with water rockets, altitude and velocity with solid-fuel rockets, and more. |
| Alaska Women in Science on Being Women in Science | Ned Rozell, Alaska Science Forum | The author sent a questionnaire to a few Alaska women scientists who have excelled at their craft. He summarizes the responses from two women, who discuss the greatest hurdles they faced in their careers, the way "public perception [has] changed about women scientists," and their advice for young women considering careers in STEM fields |
| An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Committee for Capitalizing on Science, Technology, and Innovation: An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program, National Research Council
| This book assesses a program designed to encourage small business to develop new processes and products and to provide quality research in support of the many missions of the U.S. government, including health, energy, the environment, and national defense. |
| Analysis Finds Technical Nature of Science, Engineering Not Behind Exit Of Women | Forbes | Jennifer Hunt explores the idea that women are "exiting from science and engineering disproportionately," and asks if this is the case, "is this exodus simply a hallmark of male-dominated fields in general, or is it specific to science and engineering?" |
| Arlington high school teacher heads to South Pole in name of science, education | By Kevin Sieff Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 12, 2010; 10:37 PM | Teacher Katey Shirey, who is a Knowles Science Teaching Fellow, will spend a month in Antarctica working on the project and conducting a related experiment created by her students. |
| Aspiring Teachers to Learn Novel Approach to Science Instruction | Jennifer McNulty, UC Santa Cruz | Nearly 1,000 aspiring teachers in San Francisco and San Diego will learn cutting-edge techniques for teaching science to young children whose first language isn't English as part of a collaboration led by UC Santa Cruz. |
| Association of MIT Alumnae | Celebrating 125 Years of Women at MIT 1873-1998 | A look at women MIT pioneers with lots of photos, and a bibliography. |
| Attracting and Retaining Females and Minority Students into Technology
| Alka Harriger and Antonia Munguia, Purdue University | Research in STEM education focuses on innovation in what is taught, how it is taught, and increasing the access of underrepresented groups to these innovations. |
| Avatar's James Cameron Pushes Tech Career to Young | Karen Zeitvogel, Yahoo News | "Avatar" director James Cameron urged young Americans Monday to pursue careers in science and technology to keep the United States at the forefront of technical innovation and allow him to make more blockbuster movies. |
| Base Ten | The Feminist Press | Base Ten exposes the daily battles of women scientists fighting to preserve a family life and succeed in a discipline that functions on the archaic belief that every scientist has a "wife" at home. |
| Bayer Facts of Science Education | Bayer | Read the results of a survey of Fortune 1000 Executives about STEM education and the STEM workforce. |
| Becoming Leaders: A Practical Handbook for Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology | F. Mary Williams and Carolyn J. Emerson | This book provides practical advice for girls considering engineering careers, women engineers, and employers and families of women engineers. |
| Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering | Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering | Beyond Bias and Barriers explains that eliminating gender bias in academia requires immediate overarching reform, including decisive action by university administrators, professional societies, federal funding agencies and foundations, government agencies, and Congress. |
| Bill Gates Offers the World a Physics Lesson | Beyond Binary | Gates has made classic physics lectures available free online. |
| Biographies of Women Mathematicians | Agnes Scott College | These pages are part of an on-going project at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics. |
| Biomedical Engineering Predicted to be Among Fastest-Growing Jobs in United States | Abigail Rome, CTICareerSearch | The authors Report on Bureau of Labor Statistics Reports, which show that biomedical engineering is one of the fastest growing occupations in the United States, and salaries for biomedical engineers are among the top five for the 20 fastest growing occupations. |
| Blacks, Latinos and Women Lose Ground at Silicon Valley Tech Companies | Mike Swift, Mercury News | The unique diversity of Silicon Valley is not reflected in the region's tech workplaces - and the disparity is only growing worse. |
| Blinding the Students with Science | Sharon Weatherall, Free Press | U.S. native chemical engineer Dr. Nancy Jackson, told Beausoleil First Nation students that, because of her people's strong relationship to the Earth, she wanted to "work in technologies that would not damage the environment." Jackson, who spoke at a recent symposium manages the International Chemical Threat Reduction Department in Sandia National Laboratories. |
| Boot Camp Informs School Counselors about Tech Careers for Students | ASCD SmartBrief | Middle- and high-school counselors from one Oklahoma district participated in a hands-on technology boot camp to learn about pre-engineering, construction and other tech-based career tracks that are available for their students. Juniors and seniors in the district can earn up to 25 college credit hours through a partnership between a local college and the district's technology center, which hosted the boot camp sessions |
| Bridging American Indian Students' Scientific Achievement Gap | Erica Gies, High County News | This article profiles Michael Ceballos, a man of Tepehuan descent, who earned a bachelor's in physics while holding down a day-job as a draftsman for Boeing, and recently earned a Ph.D. in integrative microbiology and biochemistry. |
| Bridging the Diversity Gap in Science and Engineering: Introducing STEM Industries to K-12 Best Practicde Programs | Bayer | |
| Budding Engineers Need Mentors | Digital Learning Environments | Students need exposure to the ideas of science, technology, engineering, and math. They need mentors. They need experts to show them what engineering is and how it is used to build and create the products the world uses. |
| Building a Better Pipeline | Barry Bock, Huffington Post | We pride ourselves on being a nation of diversity. But when it comes to diversifying our workforce in high-tech fields of tomorrow, well, let's just say we still have a lot of work to do. Consequently, as we attempt to motivate more young students into the STEM areas, it is paramount that we also increase our efforts to include more women and underrepresented minorities in these fields. |
| CAMS & STAMS Book Collection | Curriculum Associates LLC | This powerful combination of assessment and instruction works effectively as a program to make sure your students gain a solid understanding of key mathematics concepts. |
| Can Building Robots Reboot Education? | The Atlantic | Some technology experts, such as MAKE Magazine founder Dale Dougherty and Pixar's Tony DeRose, are promoting hands-on learning through the practice of making things as a method for revitalizing education, particularly in the STEM fields. DeRose has created a program to involve children in "technologically sophisticated projects," according to this article, and both DeRose and Dougherty are developing the principles needed to create a curriculum based on the maker ethic. |
| Can Women Be Creative Scientists? The Dangers of Testing for Creative Ability | Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein, Psychology Today, Imagine That! Blog | Is creativity an inborn personality trait or a set of learned skills? The answer determines whether we test for intrinsic talent or teach creative skills. Current research on screening for scientific creativity suggests why getting the answer right is critical to the future of women in science. |
| Celebrating 125 Years of Women at MIT 1873-1998 | Association of MIT Alumnae | This website provides information about women MIT pioneers. |
| Change the Equation | White House | Change the Equation, a new 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is a response by the business community to the President?s ?call to action? at the National Academy of Sciences in spring 2009 for all Americans to join the cause of elevating STEM education as a national priority essential to meeting the economic challenges of this century |
| Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers | Extraordinary Women Engineers Project. | This compliation of real-life stories provides a fresh perspective, inspiration, and encouragement for young women pursuing careers in engineering. |
| Climbing the Technical Ladder:
Obstacles and Solutions for Mid-Level women in Technology | Stanford University | This report proposes data-driven, systematic solutions for the retention and advancement of technical women. |
| Computer Science Continues To See Gender Gap | Campus Technology | If the attitudes of high school students are a good predictor of eventual career choices, the future will continue to see computer science fields dominated by males. |
| Creating More Opportunities for American Indians in Science and Engineering | Michelle J. Nealy, Diverse Issues in Higher Education | While many have doubted the ability of American Indian students to thrive in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, Dr. Herb Schroeder is converting skeptics with his Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program. |
| DARPA to Teen Geeks: Build Us Better Robots | Katie Drummond, Wired | DARPA is putting $10 million into a new program, Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach, or Mentor, that aims to "develop and motivate a next generation cadre of system designers and manufacturing innovators." The agency is looking for legions of high school students with a firm grasp on tools like Facebook and Twitter, who can work in teams "within a single high school and across multiple high schools" to design and develop "cyber-electro-mechanical systems" like go-carts, robots and even unmanned aircraft |
| Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia's Contributor List | Noam Cohen, New York Times | A study revealed that Wikipedia's contributor base was barely 13 percent women; the average age of a contributor was in the mid-20s. |
| Determining Prograss Toward Achieving Equity, Second Edition | ITEA | Create a program that reflects educational equity, recognizing the learning differences of all students regardless of gender or ethnicity. |
| Diversity/Careers in Engineering and Information Technology | Renard Communications | This publication serves engineering and IT professionals who are women, African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, Native Americans, people with disabilities and members of other diversity groups. |
| Educators Refocus on Real-Life Problems to Make Computer Science More Relevant | Jenna Johnson, Washington Post | As Virginia Tech and other universities train a new generation of computer scientists, professors are asking students to create programs that address real-life problems, often through handy, smartphone-ready apps. |
| Educators Seek New Ways to Steer Kids Toward Technical Fields | Converge Magazine | Across the country, as the push for more STEM professionals continues, partnerships between K-12 schools and colleges will continue to expand as a win-win option for both sides: Colleges and universities can have a direct influence on their future undergraduates, and the younger set can experience STEM in a real-world context. |
| EdWeek Spotlight on STEM | Education Week | Education Week's 2009 Spotlight on STEM in Schools brings together a collection of STEM articles hand-picked the magazine's editors. |
| Effective Access: Using Digital Resources to Enhance High School Teaching in STEM | Gender, Diversity & Technology Institute | Through surveys, focus groups, and interviews, Effective Access staff developed clear pictures of educators' use of digital resources. The project results highlight ways that developers can aid teachers in finding and integrating digital resources |
| Effective Math and Science Instruction | Intercultural Development Research Association | In many schools, teachers have made positive changes in the mathematics they teach and how they teach it. They have focused on providing both basic instruction and complex thinking skills that students need to grasp advanced concepts presented in math and science. |
| Electronic Brain Stimulation Can Improve Math Skills | By Kate Kelland
November 4, 2010 | Stimulating the brain with a very low electric current can enhance a person's math ability for up to six months. For this study, 15 student volunteers aged 20 and 21 were taught symbols that represented different numerical values, and then timed to see how quickly and accurately they could complete a series of math puzzles based on those symbols. |
| Encouraging the Hand-Mind Connection in the Classroom | Margaret Honey and Eric Siegel, Education Week | These authors argue that the best way for students to get excited about math and science is by encouraging them to create, build, and invent. |
| Engaging Girls in STEM | Bridget McCrea, The Journal | There may not be one all-encompassing solution to STEM gender equity, but there are some tools that can help get girls interested in STEM and keep them engaged with it through their secondary and post-secondary education--ranging from investments in professional development to simple, everyday encouragement. |
| Engineer Helps Craft Barbie's Latest Image | Joyce Gannon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Late one January afternoon, Erin Fitzgerald opened an e-mail from the National Academy of Engineering seeking her input on a design project. It wasn't an unusual request considering that Dr. Fitzgerald, 30, is a trained electrical and computer engineer who earned her undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon University and is a research fellow at the U.S. Department of Defense in Arlington, Va. But the engineering academy wasn't after her technical expertise. On behalf of Mattel, the academy wanted suggestions on how to dress and accessorize a computer engineer Barbie doll that will hit store shelves this fall. |
| Engineering Career? Many Kids Say No | American Machinist | A survey indicated that 85 percent of youth, ages 8 to 17, say they are not interested in a future engineering career for a variety of reasons. |
| Engineering in K-12 Education: Understanding the Status and Improving the Prospects | The National Academies Press | Engineering education in K-12 classrooms is a small but growing phenomenon that may have implications for engineering and also for the other "STEM" subjects--science, technology, and mathematics. |
| Engineering Schools Boost Efforts to Attract Females | Claude Solnik, Long Island Business News
| Engineering schools are re-engineering their Programs to attract more women and retain students who have been switching to other disciplines. They are making the effort after seeing the number of people obtaining engineering degrees remain basically flat and the number of women slip slightly. |
| Engineering Success | Sherwood High School | The use of advanced technology helps make Niebergall?s classes a big draw for Sherwood High?s population of teen boys, but young women are nearly absent from the class. |
| Engineering: Go For It Magazine | Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) | The magazine shows how engineering is saving lives and the environment every day, taking into account research demonstrating that girls want to know how their career will make a difference in the world |
| Engineers Find Soft Skills Hard | L.M. Sixel, Houston Chronicle ÿ | Universities across the country are giving their engineering and science students extra help navigating the soft skills that may come more naturally to liberal arts students. |
| Engineers Make a Difference | Celeste Baine | With a focus on the state of K-12 engineering education and motivating students, this book is an invitation to explore engineering and share the fun with students of all ages. |
| Entrepreneurial Women Claim High-tech Turf | Aimee Miles, Palo Alto Online | Silicon Valley is a beacon of hope for entrepreneurs. But with women-founded, venture-backed startups accounting for just 8 percent of the total, it's clear that women in the valley's high-tech sector who channel that potential into high-growth, scalable companies are statistically the exception, not the rule. That trend has recently begun to correct itself |
| Female Scientists May Make Significant Personal Sacrifices for Professional Success, Study Finds | Politics Daily, Summary from 9/30/10 ACTE Legislative Update | Results of a recent survey of 1,300 female and male scientists suggest that female scientists might be making significant personal sacrifices to achieve professional goals. |
| Flickering Clusters: Women, Science and collaborative Transformations | Cheryl Ney, Jacqueline Ross, and Laura Stempel | Flickering Clusters documents an innovative project designed to attract and retain women and minority students in science, mathematics, and engineering. |
| G3 STEM Guide | A3 Creative Group | This guide helps a student focus on a career choice matched to his or her interests, abilities, and ambitions, and shows him or her how to follow a pathway/program of study from high school to personally and professionally rewarding employment in the STEM sector. |
| Gender Differences in Learning Style Specific to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) | Donna Milgram, SelfGrowth.com | This article discusses the gender differences in learning styles that STEM teachers should keep in mind when developing lesson plans and teaching in the classroom. |
| Gender Differences in Spatial Ability of Young Children: The Effects of Training and Processing Strategies | Sarah Sparks, Education Week | Research has long found a gender gap favoring boys in spatial ability-considered vital to fields like engineering and physics-but a new study in the October issue of Child Development suggests that formal training in spatial ability can help girls catch up. |
| Gender Equality Helps Girls with Math, study says | Philadelphia Inquirer | High school boys outscored girls in math in the United States, but girls performed just as well in Norway, Sweden and other countries. |
| Gender Equity in Education Page | Martha C. Phelps-Borrowman | This site was constructed to promote a heightened awareness of the need for gender equity in education for both girls and boys |
| Gender Equity in Mathematics Education | Asian-Pacific Economic Coopreration | This report summarises gender equity in education in terms of its challenge and the approaches recommended to promote women's access to education in math and science. |
| Gender Equity Resources | Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc. | The results of Dr. Patricia B. Campbell?s work to increase gender and race equity in math, science, and technology education can be found in the following "user friendly" reports, brochures, and pamphlets. |
| Gifted Students Learn Forensic Science Through Modern Version of Clue | SmartBrief
October 29, 2010
| Students in a gifted and talented program at an Ohio middle school are participating in a modern version of the board game Clue, designed to warn students about Internet dangers while teaching them about forensic science. The students, who also visited the forensic science department at Marshall University, will use anthropology, ballistics, handwriting analysis and other skills to solve the mystery |
| Girls in Outer Space | NASA | NASA is collaborating with the Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now (FFAWN) and the NASA Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Aerospace Academy (SEMAA) to engage middle schools in math and science learning. |
| Girls in Science | NSTA | The authors of Girls in Science engaged in years of working under a grant funded by the National Science Foundation on this all-too-real problem of gender-equitable science teaching. What they found through working with students, teachers, and scientists- the three elements of the Triad community in which their research started-can change the way you teach and level the playing field of science education for girls. |
| Girls Interest in Computing Science Piqued by Making Video Games | Science Magazine | Computer science professors at the University of Alberta have recently determined that game design is an effective way to attract and retain female students. |
| Girls Worse at Math? No Way, Study Says | Reuters | Girls can do just as well at math as boys-even at the genius level-if they are given the same opportunities and encouragement, researchers recently Reported. Their study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, contradicts studies showing girls can do as well as boys on average in math -- but cannot excel in the way males can. |
| Green Space | Wider Opportunities for Women | This newsletter contains stories about green jobs and green-collar job trainingÿas well as state and federal legislation information. |
| Helping STEM Take Root | Ron Schachter, District Administration | Over the past two years, the STEM movement has shown signs of taking root, as district leaders say they are finding public and private funding to develop STEM-related curricula, ramping up professional development, and even launching dedicated STEM academies. |
| High school girls take robotics talents to state championship this weekend
| East Oregonian | Three Umatilla teenagers head for a state robotics competition and nine hours later, the trio of fledgling robotics engineers accepted the hefty first-place trophy. |
| How to fix the STEM education 'crisis'
| eSchool News | Experts weigh in on teacher qualification, cultural perceptions, and systemic solutions for improving U.S. math and science instruction
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| How to Use Illustrations to Help Students Learn Science | Accomplished Teacher by SmartBrief | Illustrations, comics and graphic novels can be used to help improve students' understanding of science concepts. In this blog post, several lesson plans are suggested for capitalizing on the arts, including instructing students to illustrate a particular scientific concept or create a comic strip. |
| InDemand | Career Voyages | This issue highlights careers in Science-Technology-Engineering-Math (STEM). |
| Innoculation Against Stereotype | Insider Higher Ed | New research provides evidence that female instructors may be key to encouraging talented female STEM students to stay in those disciplines. |
| International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology | Open University | This journal's aim is to help foster and develop the growing community of researchers, practitioners and policy makers who are interested in gender issues in science and technology and provide a focus for constructive debate and interchange of ideas between key players and experts in this field. |
| Is the STEM push working? | Tech & Learning | If a push for STEM education just means that we search for more ways to test STEM subjects, we will miss the promise of STEM education. |
| Jump in Fall 2008 Enrollments of First-Time, Full-Time S&E Graduate Students | National Science Foundation | This report shows that in 2008 there were more students enrolled in graduate programs for these subjects than in the previous year. Overall enrollment grew 2.5 percent over 2007, and first-time full-time enrollments actually increased by nearly 8 percent. |
| Madame Curie and the Science of Radioactivity | American Institute of Physics | This website provides information about M. Curie's life. |
| Making a Case for Diversity in STEM Fields | Daryl E. Chubin and Shirley M. Malcom | This report discusses how, at a time when STEM fields are increasingly important to our national security, health, and competitiveness, we are neither supporting the research nor producing the diverse pool of scientists and engineers we need to fuel our future. |
| Md. teachers create online tool to improve STEM teaching | November 10, 2010|By Liz Bowie, The Baltimore Sun | A group of teachers in Maryland has created an online tool designed to improve the teaching of science, technology, engineering and math. STEMnet Teachers Hub will allow teachers to collaborate and share lesson plans and connect with researchers in STEM fields. |
| Mobile Labs Increase Students' Access to Science Education | USA today | Mobile labs are active in at least 10 states and are an important tool in attracting young people to the so-called STEM courses ? science, technology, engineering and math |
| Momentum Building on STEM Education: Science and math accelerate, but experts urge schools not to forget about the 'T' (technology) and 'E' (engineering) in their STEM efforts | Laura Devaney, eSchool News | This article discusses the building momentum for recognizing the "T" and "E" in STEM--technology and engineering, two subjects often overlooked. |
| NASA Program Will Target Minority Students | Charlie Curnow, The Daily Tell | A new partnership led by NASA will pilot a series of multi-week math and science education Programs this summer. NASA's "Summer of Innovation" program will come under the umbrella of the Educate to Innovate program. According to the article, NASA will "encourage low-income, minority students to pursue careers in engineering, math or science." |
| Natalie Portman, Oscar Winner, Was Also a Precocious Scientist | Natalile Angier, New York Times | Among the lesser-known but nonetheless depressingly impressive details in Ms. Portman?s altogether too precociously storied career is that as a student at Syosset High School on Long Island back in the late 1990s, Ms. Portman made it all the way to the semifinal rounds of the Intel competition. |
| National Lab Day Part of Larger Movement for Hands-On Learning | Erik Robelen, Education Week, summary from 5/13/10 ACTE Career Tech Update | Education Week reported on National Lab Day, a public-private initiative (but not a one-day event, despite the name) launched to bring more 'authentic, hands-on, discovery-based lab experiences to students. As the movement for greater STEM learning gains momentum, a number of recent efforts have emerged to address what's seen as a critical component: helping students get access to high-quality laboratory experiences. |
| National Labs-Now Free With Delivery | eGFI | At the Department of Energy's National Laboratories, more than 30,000 scientists and engineers perform cutting-edge research with up-to-date facilities and equipment. Most offer some form of educational outreach, including workshops, lectures and tours, and make materials available to teachers nationwide via the Web. Several labs have also hit the road in order to bring free science and engineering education directly to nearby schools. |
| Navigating a Complex Landscape to Foster Greater Faculty and Student Diversity in Higher Education | (American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association of American Universities) | This handbook outlines legally sustainable ways to expand diversity on campuses, particularly within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. |
| New Web-based Science Game for Girls Gets $200,000 Boost | Sally Kalson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | A Web-based science game being designed to interest more girls in science and gaming technology won $200,000 in the MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition. The Carnegie Science Center's Click!Online game will feature a fictional spy agency where girls can solve real-world challenges in environmental protection, "expressive technology" and biomedical science. "Senior agents" will act as online mentors and provide support for the girls in the critical-thinking and problem-solving skills needed to solve the mysteries. |
| Next Generation of STEM Innovators: Identifying and Developing Our Nation's Human Capital | National Science Board | On September 15, 2010 the National Science Board released Preparing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators: Identifying and Developing Our Nation's Human Capital. |
| NSF Seeks New Approach to Helping Minority Students in Science | (Paul Basken, The Chronicle of Higher Education) | The National Science Foundation is re-evaluating its approach to helping minority college students, proposing a consolidation of programs that currently assist specific racial and ethnic groups. The new direction was set out by the Obama administration in its budget recommendation for the 2011 fiscal year, which calls for the outright elimination of three NSF programs: the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program, the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation, and the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program. |
| Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley | Claire Cain Miller, New York Times | CANDACE FLEMING'S r‚sum‚ boasts a double major in industrial engineering and English from Stanford, an M.B.A. from Harvard, a management position at Hewlett-Packard and experience as president of a small software company. But when she was raising money for Crimson Hexagon, a start-up company she co-founded in 2007, she recalls one venture capitalist telling her that it didn't matter that she didn't have business cards, because all they would say was "Mom." |
| PCAST STEM Ed Report | President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology | On September 15, 2010, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a plan for improvements in K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education. |
| Planting the Seeds for a Diverse U.S. STEM Pipeline: A Compendium of Best Practice k-12 STEM Edcuation Programs | Bayer | |
| Professor Tries to Measure Student Achievement in Science and Technology Fields | NewsLeader.com | What does it mean to be an expert in science, technology, engineering and math - the so-called "STEM" fields, which change so quickly that before you've had a chance to boot up the latest electronic gadget, a newer version already exists? The work of David Feldon, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education, is focused on answering this question. |
| Questions and Answers About Women in Astronomy | University of Maryland | This website provides information about women in astronomy and their careers. |
| Race Matters When Recruiting, Retaining Undergraduate Women Engineers | University of Washington | Attempts to recruit and retain more women in undergraduate engineering programs often lump all female students into a single group. At best, minority women as a group may receive special attention. But a new study of female engineering students' perceived challenges finds significant differences between black, Hispanic, Native American, Asian-American and white women. |
| Report Card | NCWIT | The NCWIT Scorecard is a status report on women's participation in computing and information technology at every segment of the pipeline. |
| Research on images of science and scientists in the mass media | Dr. Jocelyn Steinke | Jocelyn Steinke?s research focuses on images of science and scientists in the mass media. Her most recent research explores the influence of media images of women scientists and engineers on adolescent girls? conceptions of gender roles and their occupational aspirations |
| Researchers Probe Causes of Math Anxiety | Sarah D. Sparks, Education Week ÿ | Math problems make more than a few students-and even teachers-sweat, but new brain research is providing insights into the earliest causes of the anxiety so often associated with mathematics. |
| Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5 | Members of the 2005 "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" Committee; Prepared for the Presidents of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine | In the face of so many daunting near-term challenges, U.S. government and industry are letting the crucial strategic issues of U.S. competitiveness slip below the surface. Five years ago, the National Academies prepared Rising Above the Gathering Storm, a book that cautioned: "Without a renewed effort to bolster the foundations of our competitiveness, we can expect to lose our privileged position." Since that time we find ourselves in a country where much has changed--and a great deal has not changed. |
| Rock Stars of Science' pairs rockers, Nobel winners to entice kids | USA Today | A campaign debuting in the December issue of GQ magazine features the "2010 Rock Stars of Science," as part of an annual effort by the Geoffrey Beene Foundation to interest more people in science. The campaign pairs top scientists with famous musicians to raise the profile of the scientists and draw attention to their achievements. |
| Rockin' Out for Science | Baltimore Sun | Dr. Francis S. Collins, who led the government's successful effort to decode the human genome (he also happens to play the guitar) is among a handful of preeminent researchers featured in a slick six-page photo spread in the June issue of GQ. The photos are part of a larger ad campaign called "Rock Stars of Science" designed to celebrate scientists, highlight the importance of their research and draw attention to the funding needed to make their work possible. |
| Rowan University Offers Engineering Approach to High School Lesson Plans | Gloucester County Times | Teachers and high school seniors from around the state gathered at Rowan Hall this week to work with engineering faculty on design projects that can be integrated into classroom lessons. Originally, the program was only open to teachers. Since last year, high school seniors considering a future in engineering or technology education have been welcomed as well. For example, Rowan associate professor of mechanical engineering, showed teachers in the sports workshop how they could connect science and engineering with a more-commonly recognized and understood topic. |
| Sally Ride Parent Handbook | Sally Ride Science | This guide (English and Spanish) for parents provides the facts about girls and science and practical ways to encourage girls' interests in science, math and technology. |
| Schools Team Up With University to Increase Hands-On Science Learning | ASCD SmartBrief 5/10/2010 | Teachers and students in San Francisco's public schools are conducting more sophisticated science laboratory experiments, thanks to a partnership with the University of California, San Francisco. UCSF scientists boost classroom teachers' science knowledge and help students develop hands-on skills they need to conduct the experiments |
| Science Matters | National Science Teachers Association | Science Matters is an initiative by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) to bring content, news, and information that supports quality science education to parents and teachers nationwide. |
| Scientist Shortage, Maybe Not | USA Today, Greg Toppo and Dan Vergano | As the push to train more young people in STEM - science, technology, engineering and math - careers gains steam, a few prominent skeptics are warning that it may be misguided - and that rhetoric about the USA losing its world pre-eminence in science, math and technology may be a stretch. |
| Searching for STEM Success | David Moltz, Inside Higher Ed | In recent years, rural community colleges have done significantly better than their urban and suburban counterparts in the percentage increase of associate degrees awarded to women and minorities in STEM disciplines. |
| Series Aims to Spark Kids' Interest in Science and Math | ACTE Policy Watch Blog
November 2, 2010
| Five years ago, educators at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology began planting seeds they hoped would sprout budding young science and math students. Classes brought textbook science and math concepts to life. Their cultivating is beginning to pay off. 94 percent have gone on to college and 85 percent of them have chosen science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) majors. |
| Serving Up Science and Engineering (to girls especially): a quick briefing | R. Sevo et al. | This guide is designed for people who find themselves involved with education outreach Programs to recruit girls and minorities to science and engineering, or want to know about them. It offers a quick digest on a range of topics from activities to use with kids, to who's doing what in this area and why. |
| Sketching a Path to Better Education | Medill, Markham Heid | ÿ"If you don't learn to read well early on, there are ample studies showing that you are crippled all through school," said Ken Forbus, head of the Cognitive Systems Division at Northwestern University's Department of Computer Science. "The question is: Is there an analogous phenomenon in spatial thinking" that relates to sketching? Forbus said spatial ability is a great predictor of whether a student will excel in the "STEM" disciplines: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. |
| Stakeholders? Listening Meeting | U.S. House of Representatives Diversity and Innovation Caucus | This paper summarizes stakeholders' answers to questions about diversity in STEM. |
| State Technology Report 2008 | edweek.org | The report assigns grades to the states for their technology performance overall and in the areas of access, use, and capacity. |
| STEM Education Can Help Prevent the Next Disaster | Eric A. Clayton, District Administration | With oil continuing to spill into the Gulf of Mexico...How do we prevent this kind of disaster from happening again? The most sustainable and forward-thinking answer may lie elsewhere-in education. It is within the academic realm of STEM, often touted as the Achilles' heel of the U.S. educational system, that the foundations for future disaster-aversion could be built. |
| STEM in the States | Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology | STEM in the States provides information on important indicators of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and workforces in each state in comparative perspective. |
| STEM Major Choice and the Gender Pay Gap | Andresse St. Rose, AAUW's On Campus with Women | AAUW senior researcher Andresse St. Rose discusses the relationship between gender segregation in STEM and the gender pay gap among college-educated men and women. |
| Students Who Study Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in
Postsecondary Education | ies National Center for Education Statistics | This Statistics in Brief focuses on undergraduate students, examining students? entrance into and persistence toward degree completion in STEM fields. It is designed to provide a profile of undergraduates who pursue and complete STEM degrees. |
| Study Points To Uncertainty of K-12 Engineering Standards | eSchool News | With efforts to ensure U.S. competitiveness in a global economy revolving around stronger STEM education, some policy makers are looking at whether it makes sense to include engineering standards for K-12 education. |
| Study points to uncertainty of K-12 engineering standards | eSchool News | With efforts to ensure U.S. competitiveness in a global economy revolving around stronger STEM education, some policy makers are looking at whether it makes sense to include engineering standards for K-12 education. |
| Studying Engineering Before They Can Spell It | Winnie Hu, New York Times | In a class full of aspiring engineers, the big bad wolf had to do more than just huff and puff to blow down the three little pigs' house. To start, he needed to get past a voice-activated security gate, find a hidden door and negotiate a few other traps in a house that a pair of kindergartners here imagined for the pigs - and then pieced together from index cards, paper cups, wood sticks and pipe cleaners |
| Survey: Hands-on science education is key | EdTech Ticker | Almost all science teachers (99 percent) and nine in ten parents (90 percent) feel that science education is important, if not very important for a child?s future, but that it needs to be more engaging to capture the attention of children in America today. |
| Survey: Teachers Do Poor Job of Encouraging Science Careers | Lisa Singleton-Rickman, Times Daily | A recent survey by the American Society for Quality indicates the country's K-12 teachers get high marks for science smarts, but their grade drops when it comes to encouraging science, technology, engineering and math as career options. |
| SWE 2007 Literature Review of Women in Engineering | Society of Women Engineers | The SWE compiled a list of articles that examine programs that increase the number of women and minorities involved in STEM and the experiences and impact of women engineers in industry and academics. |
| Swimming Against the Tide: AfricanAmerican Girls and Science Education | Sandra L. Hanson - Temple University | This book uses Department of Education data as well as a recent survey of young African American women to examine the experiences in families, communities, and peer-groups that help young African American women ?swim against the tide? of the white, male science education system |
| Tech Industry Searching for Girls Gone Geek | Eve Tahmincioglu, MSNBC | Mattel recently conducted an online poll asking girls everywhere to choose Barbie's next occupation from the following choices - surgeon, architect, news anchor, environmentalist and computer engineer. ÿThe overwhelming choice among the girls was news anchor. But adults in the blogosphere, on Twitter and Facebook launched their own campaign for computer engineer Barbie. ÿ |
| Tech Professor Receives Grant to Study Stereotypes | Stephen Largen, News Star. Com | Do stereotypes that women lack the innate abilities to succeed in scientific careers affect the motivation of women to pursue and succeed in such careers? That's the question Eric Deemer, a professor of psychology in Louisiana Tech University's College of Education, has been awarded a $312,000 National Science Foundation grant to investigate. |
| Techies with a Cause: The Couple Is out to Decrease the Gender and Socioeconomic Gaps in Computing | Caroline Winter, Bloomburg Business Week | When Sep Kamvar showed his newest batch of students how to color the text on their Web pages purple, they jumped up and squealed. The Stanford consulting professor and former Google (GOOG) executive has been seeing a lot of that lately. His students are 10- and 11-year-olds at Girls Prep Middle School, a New York City charter school that serves mostly low-income families. Kamvar and his wife, Angie Schiavoni, recently launched CodeEd, a pilot program to introduce fifth-grade girls to computer science |
| The 10 Best-Paying College Majors | Chriss Morran, The Consumerist | A new study lists the 10 college majors that will net the most income right away. Seven of the top spots are taken up by engineering gigs, with economics, physics and computer science filling the three remaining slots. Of the 10 majors listed, Chemical Engineering has the biggest immediate payoff, with a starting median salary of $65,700/year. But it's Aerospace Engineering that pays off better in the long run, with a median mid-career salary of $109K/year |
| The Daring Game | USA Today | This article discusses a new video game. We all know that you can shoot villains and conquer the world in video games, but did you know that a game can provide your daughter with a hefty dose of self esteem? |
| The Race to Become a Green-Job Hub | (Sudeep Reddy, Wall Street Journal) | Cities and states are marketing themselves as leading centers for green jobs, though few are likely to achieve this status. "Every community in the country will benefit from the green-jobs movement," said Jose Beceiro, the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce's director of clean energy. "But there are only a handful of cities that will probably emerge as a clean-technology capital." |
| Tracking The Reasons Many Girls Avoid Science And Math | Science Daily | This article states that, while interest is certainly a factor in getting older girls to study and pursue a career in these disciplines, more attention should be given to building confidence in their abilities early in their education |
| Trailblazers | Virginia Dept of Education | To meet federal Perkins Act requirements, school divisions need to increase the enrollment and completion rates of underrepresented students in nontraditional CTE Programs. Trailblazers' mission is to provide the support you need to accomplish this goal. |
| Transcript: Teaching Innovation | Morgan Brennan, Forbes | Entrepreneur and inventor Dean Kamen shares his perspective about U.S. math and science education. Kamen says he believes creativity can't be taught, but that it can be squashed by an education system focused on rote learning. A good education, he contends, leaves off at a point where children have a foundation to find their own answers. |
| U.S. Science and Engineering Leadership Facing Foreign Foes | Dan Vergano, USA Today | In the "Globalization of Science & Engineering Research" report, the National Science Board calls for federal agencies and U.S. industries to benchmark their research against international competitors, to ensure domestic technical expertise stays ahead of other nations |
| U.S. students behind in math, science, analysis says | CNN | U.S. students placed below average in math and science. In math, U.S. high schoolers were in the bottom quarter of the countries that participated, trailing countries including Finland, China and Estonia |
| Using Data/Getting Results | Nancy Love | This is a practical guide for school improvement in math and science. |
| UVA study finds gender bias remains on sexes, science | MEDIA General NEWS SERVICE | Both men and women hold to the stereotype that males are more easily linked with science than females, a new study says. |
| Why Do Girls Steer Clear of STEM? | MinnPost.com | As Normandale Community College in Bloomington prepares to host a July 26-29 Technology Engineers Camp for Her (TECH) aimed at sixth- and seventh-grade girls, a new study may help explain why some girls steer clear of STEM fields. A Miami University team of researchers found that girls may avoid STEM careers because they are "perceived as less likely than careers in other fields to fulfill communal goals (e.g., working with or helping other people)," according to the abstract in Psychological Science, the journal of the Association for Psychological Science. |
| Will Science and Engineering Now Be a Good Career? | Hal Salzman and Lindsay Lowell, Education Week | The authors of this article advocates for a balanced, evidence-based policy approach to guide efforts to strengthen the science and engineering workforce at a time when dollars are precious, time for effective solutions is short, and the competitive costs of pursuing the wrong fixes are great. |
| Win a Copy of the Physics of Superheroes | L. Wallace, Wired | This interview with introductory physics professor, James Kakalios, reveals how examples from comic books, Star Wars, and television can be used to illustrate various scientific principles. |
| Women and Minorities in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics : Upping the Numbers | Mary Mattis et al. | This book discusses scientific, technological advances and innovations that are critical to the economic performance of developed countries and the standard of living of the citizens. |
| Women Atop Their Fields Dissect the Scientific Life | Gina Kolata, New York Times | Four female scientists at the top of their fields talk about their lives as scientists, the joys and struggles of research, and the specific challenges women in science face. |
| Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology: Three Decades of UK Initiatives | Alison Phipps | This book presents an accessible overview of the recent history of UK initiatives designed to encourage girls and women into nontraditional fields such as science, engineering, technology, construction, and the trades. |
| Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) | University of Colorado at Boulder | The results are in, and girls in the United States aren't any more interested in STEM (science, technology, math and engineering) careers than they were 10 or 20 years ago....There may not be one all- encompassing solution to STEM gender equity, but there are some tools that can help get girls interested in STEM and keep them engaged with it through their secondary and post-secondary education--ranging from investments in professional development to simple, everyday encouragement. |
| Women in Science:Then and Now | The Feminist Press | Gornick?s original 100 interviews show how deep and severe discriminations against women have been in all the scientific fields. Her new interviews, with some of the same women she spoke to twenty-five years ago, provide a fresh description of the hard times and great successes these women have experienced. |
| Women in STEM: How are they doing? | Trailblazers | Despite significant progress, few women complete engineering or mathematics and computer science degrees. |
| Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering | National Science Foundation | This report provides information about the participation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering education and employment. |
| Women?s Adventures in Science Series | National Academy of Sciences | Read this series of biographies written about ten contemporary working scientists. |
| Women's Adventure in Science Books for Middle Schoolers | The National Academies | In this series, readers will learn about trailblazing women who are leaders in a variety of scientific fields. |
| Young Scientists Highlight Need | Ben Wolfgang, Washington Times | Educators and scientists say hands-on learning, such as that needed to take part in a recent national science competition, helps to better engage students. |
| Young students explore science, engineering | STEM Equity Pipeline's Plymouth High School | Participants in the recent Plymouth Science Adventures Week built roller coasters, earthquake-resistant buildings and alternative-energy vehicles. They also took and tested water samples at Meyer Nature Park. Last year, 36 students participated, but only three of them were girls. This year, the opportunity was promoted more, garnering 67 participants, 29 of whom were girls. |
| Zeroing in on why women avoid math-intensive fields | Cornell Alumni Magazine, Sherrie Negrea
| The Mathematics of Sex: How Biology and Society Conspire to Limit Talented Women and Girls, a book that some say has fundamentally altered the debate on the dearth of women in math-intensive fields. It reaches a surprising conclusion: the reason why so few women hold tenure-track positions in engineering, physics, and mathematics departments is simply because they choose not to enter those fields?and if they do, they tend to leave them in large numbers. |