By Timothy P. Murray
The Herald News
Education is transformational. It opens the doors of opportunity and enlightenment for our students and cultivates our next generation of innovators and leaders. And sometimes it takes just one spark, one special experience, to inspire and motivate a student to walk through one of those doors and set them on a new path.
To help the youth of Massachusetts reach their potential, and to support the state's economic future in a range of leading industries that depend on innovation, we need to do more to ensure that spark is lit with STEM education -- the study of science, technology, engineering and math. To do this, we need a new model, rooting STEM education in the minds of all students early on in their studies.
Read the full op-ed.
The Herald News
Education is transformational. It opens the doors of opportunity and enlightenment for our students and cultivates our next generation of innovators and leaders. And sometimes it takes just one spark, one special experience, to inspire and motivate a student to walk through one of those doors and set them on a new path.
To help the youth of Massachusetts reach their potential, and to support the state's economic future in a range of leading industries that depend on innovation, we need to do more to ensure that spark is lit with STEM education -- the study of science, technology, engineering and math. To do this, we need a new model, rooting STEM education in the minds of all students early on in their studies.
Read the full op-ed.
