Managing for Effective Teachers and Leaders

MOBILIZATION

Connecting to Your Work

How can you mobilize to help the nation improve math and science education for all students? Read recommended actions from The Opportunity Equation report. MORE
 

READ THE REPORT

We must raise the bar in education and rethink the design of school if we want excellent math and science learning for all students. The Opportunity Equation report provides a roadmap for this vision with recommendations for key stakeholders. MORE

 
STEM IN FOCUS

Common Core Standards: Why Did States Choose to Adopt?

We hear from: Former Senator Bill Frist (R-TN), Education Commissioners Eric J. Smith (FL) and Mitchell D. Chester (MA), and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute's Chester Finn. MORE
 

VISUALIZATION

 

Common standards, linked with rigorous assessments, set the bar for all students—from struggling to advanced—to master academically rigorous content and succeed in the global economy. MORE

 
News Item

Wheelock, NASA team up on STEM for elementary grades

Rodney H. Brown
Mass High Tech News
11/22/2011

NASA has funded a newly launched STEM education program at Wheelock College in Boston featuring an online professional development course in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education.

According to a release from the Boston-based college, Wheelock is targeting elementary teachers (grades 1-6) with courses on how to teach STEM subjects to younger students that are the usual focus of STEM education programs. Specifically, Wheelock is offering a set of eight online courses focused on STEM education, with two starting in January: Numbers and Operations and Teaching and Learning Elementary Science.

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