The U.S. military, employers and economic development specialists have been raising alarms about the implications of American students’ low math scores for the country’s competitiveness…
Evan Tran says he loves superheros because of their everyday jobs of engineers, scientists and things of that nature.“The advances in technology that are going to drive where the world goes in the next 50 years are going to come from other countries, because they have the intellectual capital and we don’t,” said Jim Stigler, a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies the process of teaching and learning subjects including math.
Bridge to Calculus summer program participants, Steven Ramos, Kevin Dang, Kevin Tran, Peter St. Louis-Severe, Elian Martinez, and Wintana Tewolde on the campus of Northeastern University on Aug. 1, 2023.“We are no longer keeping pace with other countries, particularly China,” the Aspen report says, calling this a “dangerous” failure and urging decisionmakers to make education a national security priority.
But most American students aren’t prepared for those jobs. In the most recent Program for International Student Assessment tests in math, or PISA,than their counterparts in 36 other education systems worldwide. Students in China scored the highest. Only one in five college-bound American high school students is prepared for college-level courses in STEM, according to the National Science and Technology Council.
In Massachusetts, employers are anticipating a shortage over the next five years of 11,000 workers in the life sciences alone.“It’s not a small problem,” said Edward Lambert Jr., executive director of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education. “We’re just not starting students, particularly students of color and from lower-resourced families, on career paths related to math and computer science and those things in which we need to stay competitive, or starting them early enough.
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