{"id":55460,"date":"2022-12-16T12:58:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=55460"},"modified":"2023-06-20T12:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T16:23:31","slug":"solve-for-tomorrow-oped-we-can-fix-stem-education-if-we-keep-students-curiosity-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsung-solve-for-tomorrow-oped-mark-eastburn-stem-education-sft","title":{"rendered":"Solve for Tomorrow OpEd: We can fix STEM education if we keep students\u2019 curiosity alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an Opinion column for The Star-Ledger\/NJ.com<\/a>, Mark Eastburn, science teacher at Princeton High School in New Jersey, writes that to eliminate the national deficit in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers \u2013 estimated at a gap of 300,000 educators \u2013 we need to change the way science is taught. Mark\u2019s class was a National Winner in Samsung’s Solve for Tomorrow<\/a> STEM competition, which challenges U.S. public school students in grades 6-12 to explore the role STEM can play in solving some of the biggest issues in their local communities. Drawing on his 23 years of K-12 teaching experience, his provocative plea is “Let\u2019s stop beating the love of science out of our kids,” as he strongly advocates for embracing the problem-solving approaches to STEM teaching that Solve for Tomorrow<\/a> encourages.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLet\u2019s stop beating the love of science out of our kids. After 23 years of K-12 teaching, the last five as a High School STEM teacher, I still love the work. Since joining the U.S. Peace Corps out of college, this is what I have wanted to do, inspired by my students, their curiosity, their enthusiasm for learning how things work. But I also have witnessed the sometimes soul-numbing impact of the WAY we typically teach STEM in the U.S. While improving STEM education is a broad goal shared across K-12 education, there are very real, practical hurdles we must address.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read his Opinion article here: https:\/\/www.nj.com\/opinion\/2022\/12\/our-children-are-natural-born-scientists-lets-not-beat-it-out-of-them-opinion.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an Opinion column for The Star-Ledger\/NJ.com, Mark Eastburn, science teacher at Princeton High School in New Jersey, writes that to eliminate the national deficit in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers \u2013 estimated at a gap of 300,000 educators \u2013 we need to change the way science is taught. Mark\u2019s class was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":55463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29719,17563],"tags":[91,34,16295,832,37,730,35,26197,50],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-55460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate","category-corporate-education","tag-citizenship","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-public-affairs","tag-social-responsibility","tag-solve-for-tomorrow-sft","tag-stem","tag-stem-education","tag-sustainability"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/16125100\/DSC_2863-scaled-1.jpg","fimg_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/16125100\/DSC_2863-scaled-1.jpg","primary_category":{"term_id":29719,"name":"Corporate","slug":"corporate","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29719,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1027,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/category\/corporate\/","term_path":"corporate"},"badge":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55460"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=55460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}