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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

ED Surge

By partnering with HBCUs, the hope is that the curriculum will be more culturally responsive to the needs of students in the rural South. The most important thing for me is to do social science that can be replicated by other people,” Schneider says, adding she hopes more HBCUs will join the project. It's an opportunity for us.

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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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An Ode To STEM? What poets can teach academic scientists

The Hechinger Report

At Northwestern University, seven quarter-long courses in social science or humanities are required for engineers. In science education, cultural origins and ethnic diversity are not marked as topics of discussion. As science educators, we have integrated literature and poetry into scientific training.