{"id":10770,"date":"2013-09-01T13:45:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T18:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10770"},"modified":"2013-09-01T11:26:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T16:26:46","slug":"the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10770","title":{"rendered":"The STEM Crisis Is a Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To parse the simultaneous claims of both a shortage and a surplus of STEM workers, we\u2019ll need to delve into the data behind the debate, how it got going more than a half century ago, and the societal, economic, and nationalistic biases that have perpetuated it. And what that dissection reveals is that there is indeed a STEM crisis\u2014just not the one everyone\u2019s been talking about. The real STEM crisis is one of literacy: the fact that today\u2019s students are not receiving a solid grounding in science, math, and engineering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/at-work\/education\/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth\">The STEM Crisis Is a Myth &#8211; IEEE Spectrum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To parse the simultaneous claims of both a shortage and a surplus of STEM workers, we\u2019ll need to delve into the data behind the debate, how it got going more than a half century ago, and the societal, economic, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10770\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[367,343,103],"class_list":["post-10770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-education","tag-ieee","tag-market-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10771,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions\/10771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}