Creating a Well-Prepared STEM Workforce: How Do We Get There from Here?
The STEM workforce is one on which the state - and the nation - will depend for innovation and economic prosperity. Unfortunately, as keynote speaker Bruce Alberts noted, decades of warnings about the erosion of quality science and math education have gone unheeded, both nationally and in California.
Cal TAC Symposium Focuses on STEM Workforce Preparation
CCST Board Member Bruce Alberts, Editor in Chief of the journal Science and former President of the
National Academy of Sciences, provided the keynote address at the Cal TAC Symposium, "Creating a
Well-Prepared STEM Workforce: How do we Get There from Here?" on February 2 in Sacramento. The symposium
addressed the challenge of ensuring that students, through their preparation in the public schools system,
be employment ready in the STEM disciplines from the perspective of business and industry.
Cal TAC Holds Joint Meeting With National Research Council
On February 8 and 9, 2007, the California Teacher Advisory Council (Cal TAC) participated in a meeting at the Beckman Center in Irvine that was organized by the National Research Council Center for Education. Cal TAC members served on the planning committee.
On February 8 and 9, 2007, the California Teacher Advisory Council (Cal TAC) participated in a meeting at the Beckman Center in Irvine that was organized by the National Research Council Center for Education. Cal TAC members served on the planning committee.
