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Cross-Agency Priority Goal

STEM Education

CROSS-AGENCY PRIORITY GOAL

STEM Education

GOAL STATEMENT:

Improve Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education by implementing the Federal STEM Education 5-Year Strategic Plan, announced in May 2013, specifically:

Improve STEM instruction
Increase and sustain youth and public engagement in STEM
Enhance STEM experience of undergraduate students
Better serve groups historically under-represented in STEM fields
Design graduate education for tomorrow’s STEM workforce
Build new models for leveraging assets and expertise
Build and use evidence-based approaches

Themes:

Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services General Science, Space, and Technology

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Overview
Progress Update
Supporting Information

Goal Leader(s):

Jo Handelsman, Associate Director for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation

Overview

Improving STEM education is a priority for the President and this Administration. Advances in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) have long been central to our Nation’s ability to manufacture better and smarter products, improve health care, develop cleaner and more efficient domestic energy sources, preserve the environment, safeguard national security, and grow the economy. For the United States to maintain its preeminent position in the world it will be essential that the Nation continues to lead in STEM, but evidence indicates that current educational pathways are not leading to a sufficiently large and well-trained STEM workforce to achieve this goal, nor is the U.S. education system cultivating a culture of STEM education necessary for a STEM-literate public. Thus it is essential that the United States enhance U.S. students’ engagement in STEM disciplines and inspire and equip many more students to excel in STEM fields.

A number of Federal agencies place a high priority on STEM education and have developed education initiatives unique to their agency’s mission, needs, and resources. To better leverage Federal assets, expertise, and partnerships toward a goal of national importance, a cross agency priority to improve STEM education has been developed to increase agency coordination and use of evidence-based approaches to improve P-12 STEM instruction, increase and sustain youth and public engagement in STEM, enhance the STEM experience of undergraduate students, better serve groups historically underrepresented in STEM fields, design graduate education for tomorrow’s STEM workforce, build new models for leveraging assets and expertise, and build and use evidence-based approaches.

Members of the Committee on STEM education (CoSTEM) are:
Office of Science and Technology Policy
National Science Foundation
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of the Interior
Department of Transportation
Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Management and Budget
Domestic Policy Council
Smithsonian Institution

Progress Update

Previous Quarterly Updates

Supporting Information

Please look below for access to the tables or graphs referenced in slide 15 of the FY2016 Quarter 1 STEM Education Cross Agency Priority Goal Quarterly Progress Update Report.

Percentage of high school mathematics and science teachers who hold degrees in their teaching field or in science or mathematics education: S&EI 2014
Number of STEM bachelor’s degrees earned annually: S&EI 2016
Number of STEM Certificates earned annually: NCES, IPEDS
Number of STEM Associate’s Degrees earned annually: NCES, IPEDS
Undergraduate students enroll in 4-yr institutions: S&EI 2016
Retention rate in U.S. 4-yr institutions: S&EI 2012
Percentage of STEM degrees earned by Women: S&EI 2016
Percentage of STEM degrees earned by Racial and Ethnic Minorities: S&EI 2016
Number of associate’s degrees earned annually in computer science: S&EI 2016
Number of associate’s degrees earned annually in engineering: S&EI 2016
Number of bachelor’s degrees earned annually in computer science: S&EI 2016
Number of bachelor’s degrees earned annually in engineering: S&EI 2016
Number of views of the Reaching Students webinar: NAS, NRC, BOSE
Number of times Reaching Students has been downloaded: NAS, NRC, BOSE
Number of international venues in which Reaching Students has been downloaded: NAS, NRC, BOSE

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