{"id":15397,"date":"2011-02-21T20:59:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T01:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=15397"},"modified":"2011-02-21T21:01:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T02:01:11","slug":"stem-sell-are-math-science-really-more-important-than-other-subjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/02\/21\/stem-sell-are-math-science-really-more-important-than-other-subjects\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM Sell: Are math, science really more important than other subjects?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/answer-sheet\/alfie-kohn\/stem-sell-are-math-science-rea.html\"><strong>STEM Sell:  Are math, science really more important than other subjects?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from voices.washingtonpost.com by Valerie Strauss<\/p>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joannejacobs.com\/2011\/02\/is-stem-special\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Is STEM Special? <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; by Joanne Jacobs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From DSC:<\/strong><br \/>\nThough STEM-related topics are important, I do <strong><em>not <\/em><\/strong>subscribe to what I&#8217;m seeing so much of these days &#8212; i.e. that STEM-related programs are funded, supported, and heavily marketed &#8212; and all you other programs out there&#8230;well&#8230;hit the road. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Maybe this is why 25-30% of students (nationwide) are dropping out of school&#8230;it&#8217;s not their passion; it doesn&#8217;t interest them.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEM Sell: Are math, science really more important than other subjects? &#8212; from voices.washingtonpost.com by Valerie Strauss Also see: Is STEM Special? &#8212; by Joanne Jacobs From DSC: Though STEM-related topics are important, I do not subscribe to what I&#8217;m seeing so much of these days &#8212; i.e. that STEM-related programs are funded, supported, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423,226,80],"tags":[771,687,267],"class_list":["post-15397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-of-learning","category-passions","category-stem-related","tag-love-of-learning","tag-passions","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15400,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15397\/revisions\/15400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}