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Wasted education, how we fail our graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math, John D. Skrentny

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Wasted education, how we fail our graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math, John D. Skrentny

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wasted education

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1372548097

Responsibility statement

John D. Skrentny

Sub title

how we fail our graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math

Summary

"We are living in an era of veritable STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate our cultural imagination of American enterprise and financial growth, we urgently need science-based solutions to impending crises. As a society, we have poured enormous resources into cultivating young minds for STEM careers. The US sponsors 209 distinct STEM education programs in 13 different federal agencies at a cost of more than $3 billion. This spending is on top of countless initiatives from philanthropic foundations and corporate giving. And yet, we are facing a STEM worker crisis. In this project, sociologist John D. Skrentny asks, if we're investing so much in STEM education, why are as many as 75% of graduates with STEM degrees opting out of STEM careers? The problem is not education, he argues, but the available jobs. Skrentny aims to bring a reality check to America's growing dedication to STEM education. Each chapter highlights an aspect of STEM work culture that drives away bright minds, ranging from workplace culture and "burn and churn" management practices, to lack of job security, to the constant need for training on new innovations, to the racism and sexism that exclude non-white and Asian people and women. Skrentny shows that if we have any hope of crafting science-based solutions to many of our most urgent societal issues, we have to change the way we're treating these workers on whom our future depends"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction : the great investment in STEM education -- The exodus from STEM jobs -- Burn and churn : how management strategies can drive away STEM workers -- The precariousness of the STEM job -- Training and the STEM-skills treadmill -- How STEM employers contribute to their own diversity problems -- STEM education for what? : investors, employers, and the purpose of STEM work

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How we fail our graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math

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