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Report: Students Who Study STEM in Postsecondary Education

Posted by Dale Fleury, Regional Director

Those who focus on STEM fields have a higher rate of completing a bachelor's degree program, 35 percent, compared to the overall student population, at 29 percent, according to a new report released by the National Center for Education Statistics.

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Most Lucrative College Degrees

Math majors don't always get much respect on college campuses, but fat post-grad wallets should be enough to give them a boost.

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PRESIDENT OBAMA ENDORSES UTEACH

We are excited to share some good news with you! In President Obama's remarks at the U.S. Department of Education today, he challenged everyone to play a role in preparing math and science teachers. He also called on non-profits and universities to support programs such as the UTeach Program.  The President's remarks are pasted below with a link to the transcript on White House website.

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Educating Our Own Computer Hackers

Post by Tom Luce, CEO of National Math and Science Initiative, published in the Huffington Post

The recent wave of cyber-attacks on American and South Korean websites raises a new kind of security issue: Do we have enough brainpower in the pipeline to counter such sabotage in the future?

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Investing in science will pay in future

Posted by: Rena Pederson, NMSI Communications Director

Tom Scarritt, editor of the Birmingham Alabama News, has written a thoughtful overview of the new Pew poll on attitudes toward science.

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Filling the tech talent pipeline

Posted by BJ Goergen, NMSI Chief of Staff:

Pattie Sellers, Editor at Large a FORTUNE magazine, got the NMSI Young Leaders' conference for female college students majoring in math and science off to an exciting start Monday with a roundtable breakfast at the offices of Time Inc. in New York City. Here is the report she immediately posted on her blog "Postcards:"

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VA Students: "We Love AP"
Posted by Gregg Fleisher
NMSI National Program Director, AP Training and Incentive Program

Here's a great example of the terrific rapport that the AP teachers in programs supported by NMSI grants have with their students:

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Widening the doors to AP

Jun 17, 2009
By John Winn

The recent article, "Is AP for everybody?" (Telegram & Gazette, June 4) raises a valuable question, but would have benefited from more views explaining that expanding AP is not the problem - it is the solution if the program is expanded appropriately.

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CNN focuses on robotics competition

Posted by Lin McMullin, NMSI Director of Math Programs

CNN recently did an interesting segment on a robotics competition that boosts minority interest in engineering. Here is the link --

Competing with robots*

 

 
NMSI CEO Commends STEM Education Coordination Act

 Posted by Rena Pederson, NMSI Communications Director

(WASHINGTON) – Thursday, June 11 -- Congressman Lamar Smith announced today that H.R. 1709, the STEM Education Coordination Act of 2009, which he cosponsored, was passed this week by the House 353 – 39. The legislation establishs a committee to develop a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education strategic plan and to coordinate federal programs and activities in support of STEM education, including at the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and Department of Education.

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Advanced Placement Initiative Receives First Major Award from the Daniels Fund

SANTA FE, NM— The Daniels Fund, started by cable television pioneer Bill Daniels to provide educational grants and scholarships in select western states, has awarded $75,000 to the Advanced Placement Initiative to expand the impact of Advanced Placement on student achievement in New
Mexico. Advanced Placement (AP) courses are college-level courses that students can take in high schooland for which they can earn college credit college at most post-secondary institutions in the United States—saving them time and money in college.

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Why Paying Kids To Study Works In Texas

The March 8 edition of Newsweek has a helpful analysis of the recent working paper that shows students who receive incentives for passing AP courses not only earn better GPA's, they are more likely to earn their degrees - and the effects are more pronounced among minorities.

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Many Authorized STEM Projects Fail to Get Funding

Here is an article from EdWeek with some timely information about STEM funding:

Many programs in the America COMPETES Act never got any money.

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