STEM the Tide: Reforming Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in America

One study after another shows students ranking behind their international counterparts in the STEM engineering, technology,fields—science, and math. Businesspeople and cultural critics such as Bill Gates warn that this alarming situation puts the US at a serious disadvantage in the high-tech global marketplace of the 21century, and President places improvement in these areas at the center of his educational reform.