STEM Education Awards

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STEM Vital Signs 2012

STEM Education Awards

September 14, 2012

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• Employers repeatedly say that they cannot find the STEM talent they need

• Some researchers cite the number of people graduating with STEM degrees as sufficient to fill new jobs

- STEM wages aren’t rising fast enough to signify a scarcity

Is it a lack of qualified talent, a geographic mismatch and/or a subspecialty mismatch?

Business Leaders Sound Alarm

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STEM Help Wanted in Georgia Jobseekers outnumbered online job postings by 4.48 people to 1 job

STEM jobs outnumbered unemployed people 2 jobs to 1 person

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Growth in STEM Employment

7.9%

17.0%

2.6%

9.8%

2000-10 Growth 2008-18 Projected Growth

STEM Employment

Non-STEM Employment

18%

15%

12%

9%

6%

3%

0%

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The 2018 Outlook for Georgia

•Georgia will grow 360,000 jobs that require some post-secondary training

•Including retirements 1.4 millions jobs vacancies will be created. Of those, 424,000 will require some postsecondary training

•58 percent of jobs will require postsecondary coursework, or 2.8 million jobs overall

•It’s estimated there will be 211,000 jobs in STEM

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Earnings in STEM Jobs, 2010

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Educating the Future Workforce

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Georgia must plug gaps

Georgia: 28.5% United States: 29.2%


High School Graduation Rates


4-year Degree Program Graduation Rates

2-year Degree Program Graduation Rates

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Gender Gap in US Colleges

Women account for 57%

of college students

Women earn 57% of college

degrees; men 43%

Women account for 60% of graduate students

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College Majors & Gender

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Underrepresented in STEM

10.3

89.7

Degrees Conferred in Georgia

% STEM

% non-STEM 66.8

33.2

STEM Degrees Conferred in Georgia,

by Gender

% Male

% Female

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GA Students Taking AP Tests

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AP Passing Rates for GA

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8th Grade Math: Glass Half Full Student

Group

2003 NAEP

Score

2011 NAEP

Score

Change

since 2003

Most

improved

State

All 270 278 +8 +17 (DC)

Low-Income 253 267 +14 +19 (MA)

White 283 291 +7 +17 (HI)

Black 250 262 +12 +19 (NJ)

Hispanic 262 277 +15 + 24 (AR)

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Must Close Achievement Gap

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4th Math(2011)

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Percentage of GA Students Proficient in Math and Science

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8th Grade Proficiency in Science

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Time for Science?

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Time Spent on Science in Georgia and U.S.

Georgia

U.S.

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Access to Rigorous Courses

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Percentage of GA students in schools without college-prep courses

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Return on Investment Georgia spends $28,180 per proficient student, putting it in the fourth quintile nationwide.

State with the highest return on its investment: Utah, which spends $14,202 per proficient student

State with the lowest return on its investment: D.C., which spends $69,442 per proficient student

Smart investments will be necessary as the state moves forward

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• What STEM skills and knowledge do high-demand jobs require?

• What is the full cost of college remediation in mathematics?

• Are courses as challenging as their course titles suggest?

• How effective are teachers in improving student learning in STEM subjects?

• How effective is professional development for STEM teachers?

What we don’t know can hurt us.

Next Frontier for STEM Data

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Craig Barrett

Former CEO/Chair, Intel

Glenn Britt

CEO, Time Warner Cable

Ursula Burns

CEO, Xerox

William Green

Chairman, Accenture

Ellen Kullman

CEO, DuPont

Rex Tillerson

CEO, Exxon Mobil

Change the Equation • Improve participation and performance of

America’s students in STEM

• Mobilize the business community to improve the

quality of STEM learning in the US

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Linda Rosen

[email protected]

202.626.5740

www.changetheequation.org

Facebook.com/changetheequation

Twitter.com/changeequation

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