Science teaches you many skills. Even if you don't plan for a science related career, including a science subject in your senior years can provide a good balance. But only if you're interested.
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Picture books and young adult biographies can introduce kids to design-based thinking and engineering habits like creativity and persistence.
Her giving style is unusual for a billionaire donor.
A hands-on approach to learning about bugs can help students from urban communities take an interest in science.
She believed and advocated that Africa needs to find solutions to its own problems and worked tirelessly to build biomedical engineering capacity across the continent.
Applying cultural sensitivity in teaching STEM to Black students can help them engage in the sciences more.
Science is often taught from a white or Western standpoint. Can teaching science from a hip-hop perspective make science more relatable to students of color? A hip-hop science educator weighs in.
An analysis of data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has found the gender gap in maths tests increased where papers contained more multiple choice questions.
Diversity in STEM fields means higher quality research and innovation. To ensure that Canada can compete globally, marginalized students must be supported through STEM education and careers.
After completing a hands-on STEM program, students in Los Angeles were more likely to draw scientists as people of color or themselves instead of stereotypical white men in lab coats.
Since 1999, extreme poverty has declined while rates of young people in education and employment have risen. Without investment though, the impact of the pandemic could see this progress imperilled,
South Africa is producing an oversupply of graduates in fields that don't support economic growth.
Parents thrust into the role of math teacher can take simple steps to help their children understand math better and dread it less.
The new Alphabet Workers Union is making clear that changes must be put in place, both in education and on the job, to allow engineers to start taking responsibility for the social impact of their work.
Women enrolled in STEM courses are often more confident than men, but it hasn't translated into career success and they are still very much a minority. More needs to be done in workplaces and schools.
A higher proportion of Islamic-school students in years 11 to 12 are enrolled in science and maths than other students in Australia. But they may not all get the careers they want.
Less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women. The biases and perceptions that keep women and girls out of STEM must be tackled.
The late Hollywood star celebrated being young, Black and gifted, both on screen and off.
Racial disparities in the tech sector begin well before college.
The story of invention in America typically features larger-than-life caricatures of white men like Thomas Edison while largely ignoring the contributions of women and people of color.
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