How Rick Scott’s Call for More STEM Education Helps Focus on Florida School’s Real Problem
Writing in this morning’s Gainesville Sun, Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida president Ed. H. Moore takes Governor Rick Scott’s call for an emphasis on STEM education and applies the realities of what kind of students are arriving on the state’s college campuses.
The governor is correct. We do need to focus on STEM. We also need to focus on the production of students entering college capable of mastering, in both speech and writing, at least one language. Too many students still leave our high schools deficient in English skills and requiring remediation.
Our higher education institutions have capacity to expand STEM access. We can too easily fill
