Obama's Budget Shuffles STEM Education Deck

The president's 2013 budget for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education programs at the Department of Education has a very familiar ring to science educators. That's the case because most of his proposals are recycled from unsuccessful requests in years past, although some have been redesigned. Source: Science - Discipline: Science Politics...

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