Links
Resources on STEM Issues 2003-2006
- Developing the STEM Education Pipeline ACT
- Mathematics & Science Initiative U.S. Department of Education, May 2003
- Keeping America Competitive Careers in Manufacturing, May 2003
- http://sheeo.org/k16/P16.pdf Student Success, 2003
- Betraying the College Dream Bridge Report, 2003
- Understanding University Success CEPR, 2003
- A Commitment to America’s Future Business-Higher Education Forum, January 2005
- Benchmarks of our Innovation Future: The Knowledge Economy Taskforce on the Future of American Innovation, February 2005
- The World is Flat Thomas Friedman, April 2005
- Tapping America’s Potential Business Roundtable, July 2005
- Rising Above the Gathering Storm National Academies Press, November 2005
- National Innovation Initiative Final Report InnovateAmerica
- National Center for Ed. Statistics, State by State Profiles http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/states/profile.asp
- American Competitiveness Initiative President Bush and the Department of Education, January 2006
- PACE Act 2006 U.S. Congress and Department of Energy,
- National Defense Education and Innovation Initiative http://www.aau.edu/reports/NDEII.pdf– AAU, January 2006
- Strengthening Education Meeting the Challenge of a Changing world U.S. Department of Education, February 2006
- NSF Science and Engineering Indicators 2006
- Condition of Education 2006, NCES, 2006
- The Nation's Report Card: Science 2005, 2006
- "Ready for College and Ready for Work: Same or Different?" ACT, 2006
Organizations
- Carus Foundation
- Chemical Industry Council of Illinois
- Illinois Academy of Science
- Illinois Business Roundtable
- Illinois Board of Higher Education
- Illinois Community College Board
- Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
- Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
- Illinois State Board of Education
- Learning Point Alliance
- National Association of State Science and Mathematics Coalitions
- Northern Illinois University