Promising Practices for Engaging Families in STEM Learning

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<p>The technology revolution has made it critical for all children to understand science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or risk being left behind. <em>Promising Practices for Engaging Families in STEM Learning </em>explores how families, schools, and communities can join together to promote student success in STEM by building organized and equitable pathways for family engagement across all of the settings in which students learn –  including, schools, early childhood  programs, homes, libraries and museums –from the earliest years through adolescence.</p><p>This thought-provoking monograph includes three main sections with chapters from leading thinkers in the field:</p><p>· The first section provides the theoretical and research base for the importance of family engagement in STEM and draws out the challenges and opportunities that exist– from the transmission of adults’ anxiety and lack of confidence in their own STEM skills,