THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING, AND MEDICINE
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Board on Science Education
Committee on PreK-12 STEM Education Innovations
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Congressional Briefing
Monday, November 18, 2024 – 3:00 p.m.
via Zoom
on
Scaling and Sustaining Pre-K-12 STEM Education Innovations: Systemic Challenges, Systemic Responses
In the modern history of the United States, investment in the teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics has resulted in a rich variety of education innovations (programs, practices, models, and technologies). Although a number of these innovations have had the potential to impact learners on a broad scale, that potential often remains unrealized. Efforts vary in their success in widescale implementation and sustainability across different educational contexts - leaving questions about how to achieve the major improvements to STEM education that many policy leaders seek.
Requested by Congress in P.L. 117-167, The Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act of 2022, this new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines the interconnected factors at local, regional, and national levels that foster or hinder the widespread implementation of promising, evidence-based Pre-K-12 STEM education innovations, to identify gaps in the research, and to provide guidance on how to address barriers to implementation.
This briefing was for members of Congress and congressional staff only. The report was publicly released on November 20, 2024 and can be found, in its entirety, on the Web site of the National Academies Press.