The plan calls for every American to master basic STEM concepts, and aims to increase access to STEM among underserved students and to encourage students to pursue STEM careers. Other points include strengthening community-school partnerships and urging educators to focus on project-based learning, science fairs, robotics clubs, invention challenges and gaming workshops. Much of what […]

Three years of construction to build a state-of-the-art STEM school in New Orleans has officially started. Money from the post-Hurricane Katrina Federal Emergency Management Agency settlement is being used to build the new $27.5 million New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School.

The University of Florida College of Engineering received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to provide professional development for K9 STEM teachers in 11 Florida school districts. It will focus specifically on teaching educators about the use of, and lesson planning for, data gathering and data analytics.

An increasing number of school districts across the country are starting not only to screen and treat at-risk kids for opioid addiction, but also access mental health counseling specifically for students whose families and communities are consumed by opioid abuse. When Maddy Nadeau was a toddler, her mother wasn’t able to care for her. “I […]