'STEM Deserts' in the Poorest Schools: How Can We Fix Them? - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

Students attending high-poverty schools tend to have fewer science materials, fewer opportunities, and less access to the most rigorous mathematics classes, like calculus and physics, than students attending low-poverty schools, a new analysis points out. That means that they're less likely to encounter real-world problem-solving that characterizes advanced work in those fields—as well as the most rigorous content that serves as a benchmark for beginning college majors or minors in those fields. The report comes from Change the Equation, a nonprofit made up of business members who push for higher standards and policy attention to the STEM fields of science,...

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