America’s Strategy for STEM Education
The Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) under the National Science and Technology Council shared a new resource aimed at helping to grow STEM education and talent over the next five years. The vision for the resource, the Federal Strategic Plan for Advancing STEM Education and Cultivating STEM Talent, is to inspire and cultivate a diverse STEM workforce and ensure equitable access to STEM opportunities for all Americans. The plan emphasizes multi-sector partnerships, ensuring access, opportunity, transparency and accountability. Through the outlined principle of STEM training and workforce development, the strategy references Career Technical Education (CTE) and local community colleges as a direct means of building the STEM workforce needed for the future. America’s Strategy for STEM Education.
About The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was established by the National Science and
Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 to provide the President and others within
the Executive Office of the President with advice on the scientific, engineering, and technological
aspects of the economy, national security, homeland security, health, foreign relations, the
environment, and the technological recovery and use of resources, among other topics. OSTP leads
interagency science and technology policy coordination efforts, assists the Office of Management and
Budget with an annual review and analysis of federal research and development in budgets, and serves
as a source of scientific and technological analysis and judgment for the President with respect to major
policies, plans, and programs of the federal government. More information is available at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp.
About The National Science and Technology Council
The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) is the principal means by which the Executive
Branch coordinates science and technology policy across the diverse entities that make up the federal
research and development enterprise. A primary objective of the NSTC is to ensure science and
technology policy decisions and programs are consistent with the President’s stated goals. The NSTC
prepares research and development strategies that are coordinated across federal agencies aimed at
accomplishing multiple national goals. The work of the NSTC is organized under committees that
oversee subcommittees and working groups focused on different aspects of science and technology.
More information is available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/nstc.
About the Committee on STEM
The Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (CoSTEM) was first established
in 2011 as the Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education
pursuant to the requirements of Section 101 of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010
(COMPETES Act) (Pub.L.111–358). The Committee reviews STEM education, workforce development, and research capacity investments; coordinates investments with the Office of Management and Budget and with other offices of the Executive Office
of the President throughout the federal government; and develops and implements through federal
agencies a five-year strategic plan. This document is the five-year
strategic plan called for in the COMPETES Act.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2024fedSTEMplan.pdf
America’s Strategy for STEM Education
https://www.techedmagazine.com/category/technical-resources/from-washington/