White House Unveils Strategy for STEM Education

The White House has released a five-year strategic plan for STEM education, which defines the federal government’s role in advancing STEM education through collaborations with state and local stakeholders, the education community, and industry. The plan identifies several goals, including building foundations for a STEM-literate citizenry, training a STEM workforce for the future, increasing diversity and inclusion, engaging students in interdisciplinary activities, and building computational literacy. In response, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced that it will be partnering with other federal agencies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), to support NSF INCLUDES National Network, a program aimed at diversifying the STEM workforce. NSF INCLUDES was launched in 2016 as one of the “10 Big Ideas for Future NSF Investment.” NSF will be supporting the White House strategy by committing $10 million to its Data Science Corps, which will provide basic training courses in data science and also expects to fund 200 industry and other non-academic internships of up to $55,000 for graduate students in FY 2019 and FY 2020 through the NSF INTERN program. NASA has announced that it will work with the NSF INCLUDES community to broaden participation in STEM careers and elevate it...
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