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Tennessee actively supports STEM Education. Understanding Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) topics is increasingly important to fully participate in society. STEM content comes alive when students consistently experience it during hands-on learning situations that seamlessly weave together the four sub-disciplines that comprise the STEM acronym.
STEM classrooms offer a curriculum that is integrated, emphasize questioning and inquiry, and give students frequent opportunities to apply engineering design and problem-solving. At STEMresources.com Tennessee teachers can gain quick and easy access to standards-based instructional tools, quality curriculum materials, and the latest Internet materials!
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"We do produce students who function at the highest levels in math and science internationally. The problem is we don't produce enough of them.
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Vivien Stewart
"…the mission of improving K-12 STEM education for all students is not merely important, it is extraordinarily pressing, and the success or failure of that mission will have lasting consequences for America’s economic and social well-being.
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National Governor's Association
"Tennessee is home to many STEM assets, including world-class public and private colleges and universities and internationally known companies operating in fields as diverse as energy, health care and technology. Our state is positioned to be a national leader in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math and this Network will help drive the development of the tools and resources that will help us realize those opportunities."
Governor Phil Bredesen
"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Richard Feynman
"Today, only 23% of college freshman declare a STEM major...But just 40% of those that elect STEM majors freshman year receive a STEM degree within 6 years. (about 6% of the total 3.6 million student population). We can't make progress if these students are leaving the STEM fields.
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Arne Duncan
"The Commission is calling for a dramatic redefinition of science instruction, away from the current system in which students are generally being told about science and asked to remember facts, to one where students, beginning in the very early grades, learn how to think scientifically and become proficient in science…including acquiring its crucial problem-solving and inquiry skills.
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Opportunity Equation
"One of my favorite quotes is from Carl Sagan, who said it's suicidal to create a society that depends on science and technology in which no one knows anything about science and technology - and that's the road that we are headed down….You need to generate the scientists and engineers, starting in school-elementary school, middle school, you have to fund the research that those scientists go on to do-the fundamental research. You have to generate the engineers that can turn those scientific breakthroughs into products and services."
Sally Ride
"Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It's time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and work to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology.
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President Barack Obama
" We must first recognize STEM as a unitary idea, not simply a grouping of four disciplines in a convenient acronym.
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Morrison and Bartlett
"…In the post-cold war world of the 21st century, when we have entered a new phase of globalization characterized by knowledge-based economies and fierce completion, the US can no longer afford not to be fully engaged with math and science …
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Vartan Gregorian
Q: "What do we know works to improve student achievement in K-12 STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] education?"
A: "I'd say great teachers, who know the content."
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
"If America is to maintain our high standard of living, we must continue to innovate. We are competing with nations many times our size. We don't have a single brain to waste. Math and science are the engines of innovation. With these engines we can lead the world. We must demystify math and science so that all students feel the joy that follows understanding.
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Dr. Michael Brown
"The only job categories for which both demand and ages are continuing to grow are non-routine analytic positions, requiring good judgment, an ability to solve problems, and strong communications, information management, and synthesizing skills.
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Richard Murmane and Frank Levy
"Yes, we know the world is flat. But what are we going to do about it? We need to start educating kids today for the jobs of tomorrow. We need better math and science classes and more math and science teachers. We need to launch a national campaign to make math and science a national priority. And we need to act like our future depends on it. After all, it does.
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Tom Luce
"Over the coming decades, today’s young people will depend on the skills and knowledge developed from learning math and science to analyze problems, imagine solutions and bring productive new ideas into being.
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Carnegie Institute for Advanced Study
