STEM Archives - The Hechinger Report

Data is now everywhere in our lives, informing our decisions about which new show to watch, what path to take or whether to grab an umbrella. But it’s practically absent from the way our kids learn. Our approach to teaching data science and data literacy has hardly evolved since I started my teaching career in […]

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OPINION: Why we need a joint and urgent effort to teach data science and literacy in the U.S.

Some schools cut paths to calculus in the name of equity. One group takes the opposite approach

COLUMN: Education that convinces kids the world isn’t doomed

An AI tutor helped Harvard students learn more physics in less time

Building better early grade math teachers: Milwaukee goes back to an old playbook

OPINION: As a Black middle-school student, I was tracked into lower-level math classes that kept me back

TEACHER VOICE: Instead of worrying about whether math is easy or difficult, let’s make it welcoming

Alternative STEM education: A noncollege path to jobs for students from underrepresented groups

OPINION: We need more women scientists, and there’s a lot more that universities can do about it