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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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What’s Wrong With STEM Education: How to Address the Problems

STEM Education Guide

Research has suggested that children lose interest in science by the time they are 12-13 years of age. In reality, almost all industries need a branch of STEM to conduct Research and Development work and maintain existing technology. In our article, is nursing STEM? We answer all your questions.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

The ability to travel to reach educational or employment opportunities is essential for ensuring social equality. By combining engineering and human rights disciplines, he is researching the links between access to transport and the inequalities facing Peruvians today. This process is known as peripheralisation.

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STEM Statistics For 2023 (Education, Diversity, Careers)

The Maker Mom

Education and outreach to girls starting in primary school have increased, as well as the number of women who receive degrees in STEM-related fields. For instance, in the social sciences, women hold an impressive 64% share of the workforce. The gaps that have formed over decades could take just as long to close.

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The importance of community for reducing social isolation

Futurum

Mexican women often follow their partners into the workforce to support the family income, but they also tend to have primary responsibility for children, family and the home, meaning that the time they have left to socialise and develop meaningful relationships with other women is scarce. I’m not even a medical anthropologist.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

Futurum

The application has since been taken up by lots of agencies, including the Council for Environmental Equality at the White House. When I was younger, I always loved math and science. I also teach GIS and data science classes, all with a geophysical component, and conduct research in these topics.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

He starts off by saying about Carnot’s book: The idea which serves as a basis of his researches seems to me to be both fertile and beyond question; his demonstrations are founded on the absurdity of the possibility of creating motive power or heat out of nothing. But why should this be true?

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