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STEM Vital Signs 2012
STEM Education Awards
September 14, 2012
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• Employers repeatedly say that they cannot find the STEM talent they need
• Some researchers cite the number of people graduating with STEM degrees as sufficient to fill new jobs
- STEM wages aren’t rising fast enough to signify a scarcity
Is it a lack of qualified talent, a geographic mismatch and/or a subspecialty mismatch?
Business Leaders Sound Alarm
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STEM Help Wanted in Georgia Jobseekers outnumbered online job postings by 4.48 people to 1 job
STEM jobs outnumbered unemployed people 2 jobs to 1 person
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Growth in STEM Employment
7.9%
17.0%
2.6%
9.8%
2000-10 Growth 2008-18 Projected Growth
STEM Employment
Non-STEM Employment
18%
15%
12%
9%
6%
3%
0%
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The 2018 Outlook for Georgia
•Georgia will grow 360,000 jobs that require some post-secondary training
•Including retirements 1.4 millions jobs vacancies will be created. Of those, 424,000 will require some postsecondary training
•58 percent of jobs will require postsecondary coursework, or 2.8 million jobs overall
•It’s estimated there will be 211,000 jobs in STEM
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Earnings in STEM Jobs, 2010
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Educating the Future Workforce
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Georgia must plug gaps
Georgia: 28.5% United States: 29.2%
Georgia: 67.8% United States: 75.5%
High School Graduation Rates
Georgia: 47.5% United States: 55.5%
4-year Degree Program Graduation Rates
2-year Degree Program Graduation Rates
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Gender Gap in US Colleges
Women account for 57%
of college students
Women earn 57% of college
degrees; men 43%
Women account for 60% of graduate students
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81 81 79
23 40
50 50
19 19 21
77 60
50 50
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Female
Male
College Majors & Gender
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Underrepresented in STEM
10.3
89.7
Degrees Conferred in Georgia
% STEM
% non-STEM 66.8
33.2
STEM Degrees Conferred in Georgia,
by Gender
% Male
% Female
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GA Students Taking AP Tests
6 6
12 12 13 12
47 47
18 18
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
Math Science
Black
White
Hispanic
Asian
American Native
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AP Passing Rates for GA
18 15
58
52
39
33
63
55
48
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Math Science
Black
White
Hispanic
Asian
AmericanNative
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8th Grade Math: Glass Half Full Student
Group
2003 NAEP
Score
2011 NAEP
Score
Change
since 2003
Most
improved
State
All 270 278 +8 +17 (DC)
Low-Income 253 267 +14 +19 (MA)
White 283 291 +7 +17 (HI)
Black 250 262 +12 +19 (NJ)
Hispanic 262 277 +15 + 24 (AR)
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Must Close Achievement Gap
51
40 42
46
18
12 10
12
29 25
15
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4th Math(2011)
8th Math(2011)
4th Science(2009)
8th Science(2011)
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White
Black
Hispanic
Percentage of GA Students Proficient in Math and Science
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8th Grade Proficiency in Science
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Time for Science?
3 2.9
2.4
2.2
2.9
2.6
2.3
2.3
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
2
2.2
2.4
2.6
2.8
3
'93-'94 '99-'00 '03-'04 '07-'08
Time Spent on Science in Georgia and U.S.
Georgia
U.S.
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Access to Rigorous Courses
23
16
24
18
24
11
23
4
28
10
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Calculus Physics
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Percentage of GA students in schools without college-prep courses
White
Black
Hispanic
Asian
AmericanNative
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Return on Investment Georgia spends $28,180 per proficient student, putting it in the fourth quintile nationwide.
State with the highest return on its investment: Utah, which spends $14,202 per proficient student
State with the lowest return on its investment: D.C., which spends $69,442 per proficient student
Smart investments will be necessary as the state moves forward
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• What STEM skills and knowledge do high-demand jobs require?
• What is the full cost of college remediation in mathematics?
• Are courses as challenging as their course titles suggest?
• How effective are teachers in improving student learning in STEM subjects?
• How effective is professional development for STEM teachers?
What we don’t know can hurt us.
Next Frontier for STEM Data
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Craig Barrett
Former CEO/Chair, Intel
Glenn Britt
CEO, Time Warner Cable
Ursula Burns
CEO, Xerox
William Green
Chairman, Accenture
Ellen Kullman
CEO, DuPont
Rex Tillerson
CEO, Exxon Mobil
Change the Equation • Improve participation and performance of
America’s students in STEM
• Mobilize the business community to improve the
quality of STEM learning in the US
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Linda Rosen
202.626.5740
www.changetheequation.org
Facebook.com/changetheequation
Twitter.com/changeequation
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