Are our schools teaching 50 year old science?

When most of us were in school we had Math and Science classes.  Today, there is a growing concern among many educators and professionals that those courses just aren’t measuring up for a 21st century world.  One of the educational strategies that has been developed to address these deficits is called STEM education: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

This week on What Matters, we get schooled on these initiatives with Jim Batterson, a former NASA engineer who was Senior Advisor to the Commonwealth for STEM Initiatives under the Kaine Administration and Rick Lally who is the Chairman Emeritus Hampton Roads Technology Council.

In this episode, What Matters producer, Danny Epperson, takes us to the MathScience Innovation Center in Richmond and Clover Hill Elementary School in Midlothian to show STEM education initiatives in action!