Empowering the Inner City by Investing in STEM
Empowering the Inner City by Investing in STEM:
‘The system needs to be blown up,’ Arizona State University president Michael Crow said.
AS THE U.S. News/Raytheon STEM Index found that women, African-Americans and Latinos are still lagging far behind white and Asian men when it comes to earning degrees or finding jobs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, the head of the National Urban League and leading educators made a forceful call for change.
“You can’t keep doing the same old thing,” Marc Morial, the National Urban League’s president and CEO, told corporate executives, teachers and STEM education leaders gathered Wednesday for the opening keynote of the U.S. News STEM Solutions Conference in Baltimore. “Today is where we must invest, we must dig deeper, we must do more.”
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