Metropolitan Digital

Men's Weekly


.

Many students with the potential to excel in STEM fields struggle in school

  • Written by Joni Lakin, Associate Professor of Educational Studies, University of Alabama
Many students with the potential to excel in STEM fields struggle in schoolWhat else might she build someday?Kobyakov/iStock via Getty Images Plus

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

Students who have the kinds of talent scientists and engineers need to solve problems by visualizing how objects could be rotated, combined or changed in three dimensions often struggle at school....

Read more: Many students with the potential to excel in STEM fields struggle in school

More Articles ...

  1. Companies are struggling to engage with today's activists – a new survey explores why
  2. Cómo Jesús llegó a parecerse a un europeo blanco
  3. When a winner becomes a loser: Winston Churchill was kicked out of office in the British election of 1945
  4. 4 lawsuits that challenge Trump's federal agents in Portland test issues other cities will likely face
  5. At the evangelical Creation Museum, dinosaurs lived alongside humans and the world is 6,000 years old
  6. Urban planning as a tool of white supremacy – the other lesson from Minneapolis
  7. What are the origins of cathedrals and chapels?
  8. Video: Slowing deforestation is the key to preventing the next pandemic – but what does that cost?
  9. The road to electric vehicles with lower sticker prices than gas cars – battery costs explained
  10. The mystery of the missing portrait of Robert Hooke, 17th-century scientist extraordinaire
Metropolitan republishes selected articles from The Conversation USA with permission

Visit The Conversation to see more