Government Has No Idea Whether The Billions It Spends On STEM Education Is Working

NextGov: Keeping America’s workforce competitive in the 21st century will require doubling down on science and technology skills, but the government group in charge of boosting STEM education has not measured how well most of its programs work, a congressional watchdog found.

The White House’s Committee on STEM Education failed to carry out performance reviews on hundreds of the federal STEM education programs it oversees, according to the Government Accountability Office. The interagency group also didn’t monitor how many people from underrepresented communities participated in the many of the initiatives, investigators found.

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