This important book highlights how the unprecedented effort to push students into STEM degrees is both misguided and wasted by the lack of opportunity when they hit the job market. The STEM effort to do economic planning with students should be the biggest issue in economic policy.
An urgent reality check for America's blinkered fixation on STEM education.
We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate American enterprise and economic growth while complaining of STEM shortages, but we also need scientific solutions to impending crises. As a society, we have poured enormous resources-including billions of dollars-into cultivating young minds for well-paid STEM careers. Yet despite it all, we are facing a worker exodus, with as many as 70% of STEM graduates opting out of STEM work. Sociologist John D. Skrentny investigates why, and the answer, he shows, is simple: the failure of STEM jobs.
Wasted Education*reveals how STEM work drives away bright graduates*as a result of*“burn and churn” management practices, lack of job security, constant training for a neverending stream of new-and often socially harmful-technologies, and the exclusion of women, people of color, and older workers.*Wasted Education*shows that if we have any hope of improving the return on our STEM education investments, we have to change the way we're treating the workers on whom our future depends.
An urgent reality check for America's blinkered fixation on STEM education.
We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate American enterprise and economic growth while complaining of STEM shortages, but we also need scientific solutions to impending crises. As a society, we have poured enormous resources-including billions of dollars-into cultivating young minds for well-paid STEM careers. Yet despite it all, we are facing a worker exodus, with as many as 70% of STEM graduates opting out of STEM work. Sociologist John D. Skrentny investigates why, and the answer, he shows, is simple: the failure of STEM jobs.
Wasted Education*reveals how STEM work drives away bright graduates*as a result of*“burn and churn” management practices, lack of job security, constant training for a neverending stream of new-and often socially harmful-technologies, and the exclusion of women, people of color, and older workers.*Wasted Education*shows that if we have any hope of improving the return on our STEM education investments, we have to change the way we're treating the workers on whom our future depends.
Wasted Education: How We Fail Our Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
Wasted Education: How We Fail Our Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
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Product Details
BN ID: | 2940192487334 |
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Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Publication date: | 04/01/2024 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |