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Cyber Champions Tour Washington
Vice President Joe Biden speaks to the 2014 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Champions from the University of Central Florida, in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office...
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Will The Next Generation Science Standards Be The Common Core For Science?
Photo Credit Thinkstock American students are falling behind students in other countries on international assessments of math and science. Statistics such as these are driving the call for education...
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STEM Education: The Campaign To Recruit STEM Educators
Photo Credit Thinkstock The number of jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is growing at a rate nearly double that of non-STEM jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects there...
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STEM Education & Why President Obama Has Made It An Educational Priority
Photo Credit Thinkstock Innovation drives the U.S. economy, and employees with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills have become a hot commodity in post-recession America. Between...
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Rockets and ‘Rithmetic: Engineers’ Tutoring Pays Off For Students
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon What do you get when you add pizza, probability, teenagers and engineers? Improved test scores, students say. Engineers at...
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Will Common Core Better Prepare Students For Careers In STEM Fields?
Photo Credit Thinkstock In the first year of his presidency, Barack Obama launched his “Educate to Innovate” campaign. The initiatives that came from this campaign are aimed at building a workforce...
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‘No Fake Math,’ Raytheon Math Heroes Make Numbers Real For Students
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon Math teachers wielding lollipops and PlayDoh props, configuring 60,000 pennies in a parking lot and channeling Beyonce’s...
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The ConnectED Initiative Aims To Bring All Schools Into The Digital Age
Photo Credit Thinkstock American schools increasingly depend on digital technologies to expand learning opportunities, to individualize instruction and to graduate students with the skills necessary...
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STEM Skills Are In Demand Across The Labor Market
Photo Credit Thinkstock In a first-of-its-kind study, the Brookings Institute analyzed millions of advertisements for job vacancies and compared the length of time jobs requiring science, technology,...
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STEM Education: Why Increasing Interest Among Minority Populations Is Crucial
Photo Credit Thinkstock Women make up nearly half the college-aged population in the United States, yet only a third of degrees and certificates awarded in science, technology, engineering and math...
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The Importance Of STEM In Higher Education
Photo Credit Thinkstock Nearly a decade ago, the alarm was raised. The “Rising above the Gathering Storm” report, commissioned by the U.S. Congress, warned that America will fall behind in the global...
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‘Race To The Top’ Grant Program Is Changing Education
Photo Credit Thinkstock In the five years since President Obama’s signature education reform, Race to the Top was launched, schools across the country have adopted new, rigorous education standards,...
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Vice President Biden Leads Initiative On Job-Training Programs
Photo Credit JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images More than three million job openings in the U.S. go unfilled for months, according to the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. The Jobs Council, a...
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Engineering A Love For Science In Kids
Photo Credit ThinkstockThis article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon Kevin Jarrett isn’t your typical computer teacher. His students build walls from clay, sand and water. They design parachutes...
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Engineer Urges Girls To Smash Stereotypes
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon The painted line on the playground made the boundaries clear: Girls on one side, boys on the other. Anybody who crossed got a...
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Top STEM High Schools In The Country & How They Are Making A Difference
Photo Credit Thinkstock This past August, New York Lt. Governor Robert Duffy, State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, and other dignitaries attended the ribbon cutting ceremony for a...
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How College Scorecard Can Help With College Selection Process
Photo Credit Thinkstock The average total cost of one year at a public four-year college is more than $18,000. The price tag more than doubles for students attending a private institution. A college...
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At The Frontiers Of Science
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon Raytheon is thinking big by thinking small. Working with the smallest building blocks of the universe, the company’s...
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Education Of A Hacker: One Woman’s Journey
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon Her hands smeared with typewriter ribbon ink and smudged with carbon copy paper, her fingernails caked with white correction...
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What You Need To Know About The Pell Grant Program
Photo Credit Thinkstock The federal Pell Grant program is the nation’s largest needs-based college grant program. It provided more than $32 billion in financial aid to 9 million students for the...
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Why Every College Student Should File A FAFSA
Photo Credit Thinkstock The federal government provides billions in grants, loans and work-study opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students each year. The College Board estimates that...
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For The Love Of Science
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon The school year has begun, and Debra Palmer’s fifth-grade class is learning the usual subjects. There’s some math, some...
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Marriage Made In The Heavens: Storm-Chasing Engineers Share Passion For...
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon Storm chaser Scott Nicholson remembers the day he first fell in love with extreme weather. “I was three years old, sitting on...
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‘Youth CareerConnect’ Grants Fund STEM Focused Programs
Photo Credit Thinkstock Students graduating from Toledo Technology Academy (TTA), a Toledo Public School District magnet school, leave with more than a well-rounded high school education. They have...
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College Affordability: Know Your Federal Student Loan Repayment Options
Photo Credit Thinkstock In 2013, the median weekly earnings of a worker with a bachelor’s degree was $1,108. Compare this to the worker with only a high school diploma whose median weekly earnings...
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New Technology Making Its Way Into The Classroom
Photo Credit ThinkstockEven before Dr. Howard Gardner put forth his revolutionary theory of multiple intelligences, teachers knew that to reach all of their students, they must present information in...
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Who Is Eligible For Student Loan Forgiveness?
Photo Credit ThinkstockStudents attending public colleges graduate with an average of $25,550 in student loan debt; their peers at private, for-profit schools walk away with a degree and an average...
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A Redesigned SAT Will Debut In Spring 2016
Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesFor college-bound high school students, the SAT exam is a rite of passage. It is the assessment most widely used by colleges to determine a student’s readiness for...
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Is Competency-Based Learning The Future Of Education?
Photo Credit ThinkstockThe traditional approach to formal education ties students to classrooms. Degrees are earned based on accumulated credits, a system developed in 1906 as an attempt to measure...
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The People Who Took Us To The Moon
Photo by NASA/Liaison This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before a joint session of Congress and made a bold pledge: “I believe that...
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Smart Mouse: Using Your Grip As Your Computer Password
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon The idea dawned on Glenn Kaufman one day in the lab. His computer was running a pattern-recognition biometrics program – a...
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‘First In The World’ Grant Program Challenges Colleges To Increase Access And...
Photo Credit Thinkstock The State University of New York Oswego will partner with two area community colleges to help two-year graduates transition into bachelor’s degree programs. Courses at the...
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After School Programs Are A Growing Part Of STEM Education
Photo Credit Thinkstock The technology industry has raised an alarm. There are not enough workers trained in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to fill positions in their companies....
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Engineered for Success: Four Women Tell Their Stories of Achievement
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon One chased amoebas in a creek. Another loved puzzling out math problems. One fed her curiosity through a sash full of Girl...
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Next Generation Tech Puts Air Traffic Ahead Of The Weather
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon The passengers are standing at the gate and itching to board when the dreaded news comes down over the scratchy intercom,...
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The Phantom Tollbooth: The Surprising Tech Behind Highway Toll Lanes
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon The idea behind automated toll collection seems simple: A car passes through with a transponder, and a radio sensor charges...
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Still Bringing The Thrills: Behind The Scenes Of Raytheon’s Epcot Ride
Photo by Matt Stroshane/Getty Images This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon The team of Disney Imagineers huddled with a Raytheon brain trust to work through a perplexing problem. The...
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