STEM Education in Underserved Schools - Promoting Equity, Access, and Excellence

Offers a model for increasing equity in STEM education at the K-12 level in the United States.

In STEM Education in Underserved Schools, editor Julia V. Clark addresses an urgent national problem: the need to provide all students with a quality STEM education. Clark brings together a prestigious group of scholars to uncover the factors that impede equity and access in STEM education teaching and learning and provides research-based strategies to address these inequities.

This contributed volume demonstrates that students of color and those from lower socioeconomic communities have less access to qualified science and mathematics teachers, less access to strong STEM curriculum, less access to resources, and fewer classroom opportunities than their peers at other schools. Identifying best practices and challenges related to producing more equitable and inclusive routes to access STEM education and professions, contributors explain how to positively impact th