Can social studies break into STEM?
Over at her blog for Education Week, “Teacher in a Strange Land,” Nancy Flanagan—a 30-year classroom veteran and education writer—notes that the newer acronyms evolving from STEM (which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) to include the arts (STEAM) or, as one her friends has suggested, reading (STREAM) still leave out an important part of a student’s education: Social Studies. “If the process of becoming educated—the competencies necessary … Read more »