Wasted Education Civil rights & citizenship Williams Outback Magazine

Williams Outback Magazine

A companion to their Lift

but nobody wants to talk

Rather than inundate teachers with laudable ‘big ideas’ that prove so hard to put into practice

Hidden Gold

Wasted Education Civil rights & citizenship Williams Outback MagazineAn urgent reality check for Americas blinkered fixation on STEM education. We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate American enterprise and economic growth while complaining of STEM shortages, but we also need scientific solutions to impending crises. As a society, we have poured enormous resourcesincluding billions of dollarsinto cultivating young minds for well paid STEM careers. Yet despite it all, we are facing a