美国实施科学、技术、工程和数学教育战略提升国家竞争力

Implementation Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Strategic Plan to Enhance U.S. Competitiveness

公众科学素质水平决定着一国之劳动力素质和文明程度,对科技、经济和社会发展的重要性日益突显。为了保持美国的国际科技领先地位和竞争力,奥巴马政府近期制定了联邦科学、技术、工程与数学教育的五年战略规划。规划对提高国家STEM教育质量、保证和增加青少年及公众对STEM教育的参与、加强在校大学生的STEM学习、更好地服务于STEM教育传统上未受重视群体、为未来STEM劳动力提供所需的研究生教育以及建立一个高效的跨部门合作的新模式和建立并运用基于实证研究的路径等进行了详尽的部署。为此,应面向未来加快制定我国全民科学素质建设长远规划。

The level of public scientific literacy has a great impact upon a nation’s human resource. In order to maintain its science and technology preeminent position and competitiveness in the world, President Barack Obama of the U.S implements The Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education 5-year Strategic Plan. How to improve STEM instruction, increase and sustain youth and public engagement in STEM, enhance STEM experience of undergraduate students, better serve groups historically underrepresented in STEM fields, design graduate education for tomorrow’s STEM workforce, and build new models for leveraging assets and expertise, build and use evidence-based approaches are detailed in the plan. CoSTEM focuses on the national competitiveness use the strategic plan,and insists that the progress on STEM is critical to building a just and inclusive society.