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Kerry Brenner Ed.; Maria Lund Dahlberg Ed. – National Academies Press, 2024
People with disabilities are the largest minority group in the United States. While nothing about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, jobs, or workplaces would seem to inherently exclude people with disabilities, in practice, stigma and discrimination continue to limit opportunities for disabled people to fully…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, STEM Education, STEM Careers, Social Bias
André Porter; Paula Whitacre – National Academies Press, 2024
A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a series of three hybrid workshops to examine the key issues highlighted in the National Academies 2022 consensus study report, Defense Research Capacity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions: Transitioning from…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Minority Serving Institutions, STEM Education, Research
Forstag, Erin Hammers – National Academies Press, 2022
On October 14 and 15, and December 8, 2021, the Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a virtual Summit entitled Taking Stock of Science Standards Implementation. Participants explored the landscape of state science standards implementation, identified where there have been successes and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Academic Standards, Program Implementation, State Standards
Laurencin, Cato T., Ed. – National Academies Press, 2022
The number of Black students in science, engineering, and medicine in the United States has remained disproportionately low over the past several decades. A number of reasons have been identified as contributing to these low numbers, including those related to finances. Financial considerations range from the most immediate - the ability of…
Descriptors: Barriers, Engineering Education, Science Education, Medical Education
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Cassandra Glynn, Editor; Allison Spenader, Editor – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2024
The 2024 Central States Conference was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 14-16. This year's theme, Reclaim Your Joy!, reflects the choice we make every day as educators to bring the joy of acquiring a language to our students. Even though the last several years have been fraught with challenges, we are finding ways to bring back the joy into…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, National Surveys, Literacy
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Glynn, Cassandra, Ed.; Spenader, Allison, Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2023
The 2023 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages was held in Columbus, Ohio on March 9-11. This year's theme, Empathy, Equity, and Empowerment is reflective of the vital work educators do in classrooms every day across the country. The Wikipedia definition of empathy is "the capacity to understand or feel what another…
Descriptors: Empathy, Equal Education, Empowerment, Cultural Awareness