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STEM the Tide
Author | : David E. Drew |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2015-05 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1421416956 |
Proven strategies for reforming STEM education in America’s schools, colleges, and universities. One study after another shows American students ranking behind their international counterparts in the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math. Businesspeople and cultural critics such as Bill Gates warn that this alarming situation puts the United States at a serious disadvantage in the high-tech global marketplace of the twenty-first century, and President Obama places improvement in these areas at the center of his educational reform. What can be done to reverse this poor performance and to unleash America’s wasted talent? David E. Drew has good news—and the tools America needs to keep competitive. Drawing on both academic literature and his own rich experience, Drew identifies proven strategies for reforming America’s schools, colleges, and universities, and his comprehensive review of STEM education in the United States offers a positive blueprint for the future. These research-based strategies include creative and successful methods for building strong programs in science and mathematics education and show how the achievement gap between majority and minority students can be closed. A crucial measure, he argues, is recruiting, educating, supporting, and respecting America’s teachers. Accessible, engaging, and hard hitting, STEM the Tide is a clarion call to policymakers, administrators, educators, and everyone else concerned about students’ participation in the STEM fields and America’s competitive global position.
"STEM" the Tide
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Alien Reptiles and Amphibians
Author | : Fred Kraus |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 2008-12-19 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1402089465 |
Transportation of species to areas outside their native ranges has been a feature of human culture for millennia. During this time such activities have largely been viewed as beneficial or inconsequential. However, it has become increasingly clear that human-caused introductions of alien biota are an ecological disruption whose consequences rival those of better-known insults like chemical pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. Indeed, the irreversible nature of most alien-species int- ductions makes them less prone to correction than many other ecological problems. Current reshuffling of species ranges is so great that the present era has been referred to by some as the “Homogocene” in an effort to reflect the unique mag- tude of the changes being made. These alien interlopers often cause considerable ecological and economic d- age where introduced. Species extinctions, food-web disruptions, community alte- tions, ecosystem conversion, changes in nutrient cycling, fisheries collapse, watershed degradation, agricultural loss, building damage, and disease epidemics are among the destructive – and frequently unpredictable – ecological and economic effects that invasive alien species can inflict. The magnitude of these damages c- tinues to grow, with virtually all environments heavily used by humans now do- nated by alien species and many “natural” areas becoming increasingly prone to alien invasion as well. Attention to this problem has increased in the past decade or so, and efforts to prevent or limit further harm are gaining wider scientific and political acceptance.
Culturally Responsive Strategies for Reforming STEM Higher Education
Author | : Kelly M. Mack |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2019-01-14 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1787434052 |
This book chronicles the introspective and contemplative strategies employed within a uniquely-designed professional development intervention that successfully increased the self-efficacy of STEM faculty in implementing culturally relevant pedagogies in the computer/information sciences.
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1983
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1520 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Emigration and immigration law |
ISBN | : |
Making Threats
Author | : Betsy Hartmann |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Bioterrorism |
ISBN | : 9780742549074 |
Making Threats is designed to make students, scholars, activists and policymakers think critically about how environmental and biological fears are implicated in the construction of threats to local, national and global security. Writing from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the authors contribute to scholarship on environment and security that engages with some of the more potent and disturbing political and cultural aspects of the contemporary scene.
Little Brazil
Author | : Maxine L. Margolis |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1400851750 |
Walking west on 46th Street in Manhattan, just three blocks from Rockefeller Center, one passes Brazilian restaurants, the office of New York's Brazilian newspaper, a Brazilian travel agency, a business that sends remittances and wires flowers to Brazil, and a store that sells Brazilian food products, magazines, newspapers, videos, and tapes. These businesses are the tip of an ethnic iceberg, an unseen minority estimated to number some 80,000 to 100,000 Brazilians in the New York metropolitan area alone. Despite their numbers, the lives of these people remain largely hidden to scholars and the public alike. Now Maxine L. Margolis remedies this neglect with a fascinating and accessible account of the lives of New York's Brazilians. Showing that these immigrants belie American stereotypes, Margolis reveals that they are largely from the middle strata of Brazilian society: many, in fact, have university educations. Not driven by dire poverty or political repression, they are fleeing from chaotic economic conditions that prevent them from maintaining amiddle-class standard of living in Brazil. But despite their class origin and education, with little English and no work papers, many are forced to take menial jobs after their arrival in the United States. Little Brazil is not an insentient statistical portrait of this population writ large, but a nuanced account that captures what it is like to be a new immigrant in this most cosmopolitan of world cities.