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The STEM Imperative: Science Education in America

Science education in America is an incredibly pressing issue; in his 2011 State of the Union address, President Obama made it his key theme.  He stressed the need to lead the nation into a new Sputnik era in which the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math—are popular and robust.1 This is because the STEM fields [...]

Methods for Educating Special-Needs Students

Special needs students are often the most challenging to teach yet also the most neglected by politicians and government educational policymakers. The number of students in special education has skyrocketed since the 1980s and only stabilized in the last few years. During the 2008–2009 academic school year, about 6.5 million students aged 3 through 21 [...]

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