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STEM Policies and Pathways in Two Cities Differently Positioned in the Global Economy

Tue, April 17, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Vancouver Convention Centre, Floor: Second Level, East Room 11

Session Submission Type: Symposium

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This symposium focuses on the consequences of policies designed to improve high school math and science education by expanding curricular options, e.g., adding STEM-focused programs within comprehensive high schools or adding AP offerings. Based in theories of educational expansion and social practice, we examine urban students’ opportunities for STEM and their practices of choosing majors and college destinations--under different policy initiatives and with an eye toward making the research applicable to the districts, schools, and students under study. Using a model of “translational research” with students, parents, teachers and counselors from 8 non-selective public high schools (4 Denver, 4 Buffalo), we compare opportunity structures for STEM, participants’ “cultural models” of STEM, and participants’ responses to these opportunities and models.

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