Teaching Kids to Love Science

Teaching Kids to Love ScienceDeborah Cornelison on motivating students who don’t want a career in STEM

By Kristina Rizga,Published in theAtlantic.com, September 9, 2020

Deborah Cornelison is happy to see that American society has started placing a higher value on science education. In the past decade, government officials, business leaders, and educators have argued that training in science, technology, engineering, and math must be a national priority—because it can help students land jobs with international giants like Google or Tesla and join the global economy. Yet references to global economic competition, Cornelison told me, often fall flat in rural communities, such as her hometown of Ada, Oklahoma. Some rural students don’t want to leave their small towns, which many of them view with deep pride and a sense of belonging. . . . Read More