STEM Trends for 2020 Target Diversity, Rural Teachers and PD

A nonprofit pursuing the goal of helping prepare 100,000 teachers to teach STEM subjects in American classrooms by 2021 recently issued a report on 10 trends for 2020, placing diversity challenges at the top of the list. 100Kin10, which links academic institutions, nonprofits, foundations, companies and government agencies to address the nation’s STEM teacher shortage, said that to draw under-represented minorities into the science, technology, engineering and math fields would require recruiting and supporting more teachers of color.

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