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2 Historical Context for Course-Based Research: The Need for Improved Science Education
Pages 11-16

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... economy. But the link between economic growth and new knowledge in the United States began well before World War II.
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... The United States today has the largest fraction of low-paying jobs of any developed country, which "makes it hard to sustain a middle class." According to labor market projections, the three fastest growing job areas in the near future will be in health care, community services and arts, and STEM fields (Carnevale et al., 2013)
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... This performance looks no better when disaggregated along demographic lines. For example, across all levels of parental educational attainment -- which was strongly correlated with skills in all countries -- there were no countries where millennials scored lower than did those in the United States.
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... known as the Hampton University Graduate Students (HUGS) program, in which for 30 years undergraduate and graduate students in physics have worked at the nearby Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility on experimental and theoretical topics of current interest in strong interaction theory.
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... An aspirational goal, said Handelsman, is that every student, at all institutions -- from community colleges to universities -- would have a course-based research experience sometime during his or her first year in college. Not only would such experiences help keep students who are interested in STEM subjects in those fields, but they would also help change the understanding of science for students who do not major in a STEM subject.
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