STEM Education: May Provide Sustenance for Economy
Have you ever wondered how an Iphone or any phone works? Wondering how the Iphone functions is great but also knowing who created it is better. No, I do not mean Apple, I mean the technicians, engineers, and scientists behind how such a small item could hold so much power. Of course we could not have this product or the brilliant people who created it without STEM education. STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and math. It is a type of program striving towards better education in the fields previously listed. As we all should know, most of our education is government funded especially from kindergarten to twelfth grade. Sadly the government does not fund STEM as much as …show more content…
Most people believe that the secret to finding a job is getting a STEM degree. In truth, it is not the number of people applying for STEM degrees or the statistical number of available STEM related jobs. The article, “So That 's What They Meant by Rigor,” created a statistical study on high school dropouts using focus groups and interviews. The data they collected showed that eighty-eight percent of these students were not in the range of failing classes and seventy percent said that if they went back they could get their high school diploma. They then continued to go in depth asking the students what should change about schools. Almost forty seven percent of the students agreed that the classes were not interesting, sixty nine percent agreed with the fact that they were not motivated enough, and sixty six percent said that they would have worked harder if they were asked to. At the core, it is the quality of STEM education that affects education itself and in turn the future economy. We cannot run a workforce that is supposed to pave the way for the future by having a watered down and decelerate education system. Not to say that a STEM education system that is paced to the student’s perfect learning process should no longer be instituted, what is being said is that all schools should teach with rigor and not quantity. Quantity kills brain cells, but rigor strengthens them by stretching …show more content…
According to the article, "Investing in the Future: An Economic Strategy for State and Local Governments in a Period of Tight Budgets," the Hamilton project looks to invest into the future by creating a strategy for local and state governments, “growth in high school and college completion rates [have] slowed dramatically over the past thirty years. The percentage of Americans aged twenty-five to thirty-four who have completed high school has barely increased since the late 1970s”(Greenstone 9). If our twenty-five to thirty five-year olds do not complete their high school diploma in today’s society, then how can future generations pave the way for the future of STEM? Our younger generation looks up to the older generation for guidance in schooling and everyday issues, but our older generation is full of you only live once and turn that around to what they want to hear. The beautiful thing about STEM is that if taught from an early age with the proper instruction it can help children become more focused on their life goals and allow them to think logically in any situation. Sadly this is not the case for the generation that is supposed to be the leaders of the future STEM trailblazers because they end up doing an a plethora of
Have you ever wondered how an Iphone or any phone works? Wondering how the Iphone functions is great but also knowing who created it is better. No, I do not mean Apple, I mean the technicians, engineers, and scientists behind how such a small item could hold so much power. Of course we could not have this product or the brilliant people who created it without STEM education. STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and math. It is a type of program striving towards better education in the fields previously listed. As we all should know, most of our education is government funded especially from kindergarten to twelfth grade. Sadly the government does not fund STEM as much as …show more content…
Most people believe that the secret to finding a job is getting a STEM degree. In truth, it is not the number of people applying for STEM degrees or the statistical number of available STEM related jobs. The article, “So That 's What They Meant by Rigor,” created a statistical study on high school dropouts using focus groups and interviews. The data they collected showed that eighty-eight percent of these students were not in the range of failing classes and seventy percent said that if they went back they could get their high school diploma. They then continued to go in depth asking the students what should change about schools. Almost forty seven percent of the students agreed that the classes were not interesting, sixty nine percent agreed with the fact that they were not motivated enough, and sixty six percent said that they would have worked harder if they were asked to. At the core, it is the quality of STEM education that affects education itself and in turn the future economy. We cannot run a workforce that is supposed to pave the way for the future by having a watered down and decelerate education system. Not to say that a STEM education system that is paced to the student’s perfect learning process should no longer be instituted, what is being said is that all schools should teach with rigor and not quantity. Quantity kills brain cells, but rigor strengthens them by stretching …show more content…
According to the article, "Investing in the Future: An Economic Strategy for State and Local Governments in a Period of Tight Budgets," the Hamilton project looks to invest into the future by creating a strategy for local and state governments, “growth in high school and college completion rates [have] slowed dramatically over the past thirty years. The percentage of Americans aged twenty-five to thirty-four who have completed high school has barely increased since the late 1970s”(Greenstone 9). If our twenty-five to thirty five-year olds do not complete their high school diploma in today’s society, then how can future generations pave the way for the future of STEM? Our younger generation looks up to the older generation for guidance in schooling and everyday issues, but our older generation is full of you only live once and turn that around to what they want to hear. The beautiful thing about STEM is that if taught from an early age with the proper instruction it can help children become more focused on their life goals and allow them to think logically in any situation. Sadly this is not the case for the generation that is supposed to be the leaders of the future STEM trailblazers because they end up doing an a plethora of