1. The Future is
Here: Peoria

2. October
4, 1957

3. October
4, 1957

4. STEM Knowledge Mergers
Skill Mergers
?

6. STEM Knowledge Mergers
Skill Mergers
?

7. ―The Nation is now well into the 21st
century and not since the Soviet
Union's launch of the Sputnik
satellite—47 years ago—has the
need to improve science and
mathematics education in America
been as clear and as urgent as it is
today.‖
–National Science Foundation

8. What trends
are driving
change in
education,
workforce
and
education
today?

9. GlobalS&T
Demography
Our Sputnik

10. ―If the U.S. is to maintain its economic
leadership and compete in the new global
economy, the nation must prepare today’s K-
12 students better to be tomorrow’s
productive workers and citizens. Changing
workforce requirements mean that new
workers will need ever more sophisticated
skills in science, mathematics, engineering
and technology ...
http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/documents/2006/0502/testimony.pdf

12. Governor
Rick Perry
Texas
Competitiveness
Council and
Industry Cluster
Initiative

14. “Growing evidence shows that
pathways hold promise for reducing
high school dropout rates, increasing
academic achievement and learning,
and increasing students’ earning power
when they graduate. Equally compelling,
studies show that students enrolled in
pathways perform as well as their
traditionally educated counterparts on key
measures‖ (Hoachlander, et al, p. 3, 2008).

15. “Those who complete both a strong
academic curriculum and a vocational
program of study (dual concentrators)
may have better outcomes than those
who pursue one or the other (Silverberg,
Warner, Fong, & Goodwin, 2004; Plank,
2001; Stone & Aliaga, 2003)‖ (National
Alliance for Secondary Education and
Transition, 2005, Career Preparatory
Experiences, ¶ 3).

16. What changes do
we have to make
to better prepare
students for life,
work and
learning?

17. The Future is
Here: Emerging
Technologies,
Jobs and
Strategies

18. www.kurzweilai.net/.../ SIN_headshot_highres.html
“We're
doubling the
rate of
progress every
decade, we'll
see a century
of progress--at
today's rate--in
only 25
calendar
years.”
Kurzweil, KurzweilAI.net,
March 7, 2001

19. Adapted from NSFNEURO NANO
BIOINFO
21st Century Architecture

20. NEURO NANO
BIOINFO
Adapted from NSF
21st Century Architecture

21. STEM
Mergers

22. The number of jobs
requiring technical
training is growing at
five times the rate of
other occupations.
Innovate America, U.S. Council on Competitiveness

23. Unskilled
60%
Skilled
20%
Prof.
20%
23
Where Are The Jobs?
Source: Career Pathways: Education with a
Purpose, p. 35
Unskilled
15%
Skilled
65%
Prof.
20%
Source: Achieve Texas: Lifelong Success for All
Students, p. 3
1950 2004

24. “A serious lack of skilled
workers will grow to 5.3
million in 2010 and to 14
million by 2015.”
–US Bureau of Labor Statistics

25. Job
Mergers

26. Medium to High Pay
Jobs
Knowledge
Jobs
Skill
Jobs
Next
Gen
Jobs

27. Academic
Mergers

28. Med-to-High Skill and
Professional Jobs
General
Academics
Technical –
Workforce Ed
Next
Gen
Ed

29. K-12
CTC – Workforce &
Technical Programs
University
Employers
Industry, Government, Military
and Civil Society
Environmental System of Forces
Globalization, Demography, Science & Technology

30. K-12
CTC –
Workforce &
Technical
Programs
University
Employers
Industry, Government, Military
and Civil Society
Environmental System of Forces
Globalization, Demography, Science & Technology

31. Strategies &
Models

32. Academic
Mergers

33. Liberal Arts
STEM CTE
x

34. Contextual
Theoretical Applied
TEAMS

35. Next
Generation
Ed

36. Technology
Engineering
Arts (Liberal & Fine)
Mathematics
Science

37. Maryland
Comprehensive
Liberal
Arts, STEM and
CTE Model

38. Maryland Classroom: CTE: Educating Tomorrow’s
Workforce Today, April 2008

39. Maryland Classroom: CTE: Educating Tomorrow’s
Workforce Today, April 2008

40. Maryland Classroom: CTE: Educating
Tomorrow’s Workforce Today, April 2008

42. ―…newer programs like Pre-
engineering, Biomedical
Sciences, Manufacturing
Engineering Technologies, and
Homeland Security and Emergency
Preparedness are attracting more
and more students.‖
Maryland Classroom: CTE: Educating Tomorrow’s
Workforce Today, April 2008

43. The Future is
Here: Emerging
Technologies, Job
s and Strategies

44. October
4, 1957

45. GlobalS&T
Demography
Our Sputnik