在21世纪复杂世界中维持竞争力，离不开科技创新和人才培养。美国政府深刻认识到了这一点，将STEM教育放在突出位置，先后发布了各类STEM 教育相关政策，旨在让所有学生获得优质的STEM教育。2016年9月，美国研究所与美国教育部联合发布了《STEM 2026：STEM 教育创新愿景》（STEM 2026：A Vision for Innovation in STEM Education）。该报告旨在促进STEM教育公平以及让所有学生都得到优质STEM教育的学习体验，对实践社区、活动设计、教育经验、学习空间、学习测量、社会文化环境等六大方面提出了愿景规划，指出了STEM教育未来十年的发展方向以及存在的挑战，如，教育资源分配问题、缺乏早期教育研究等。为此，在梳理美国STEM教育历史背景的基础上，充分提炼了该报告中美国STEM教育的未来发展方向及其应对挑战策略，以期对我国STEM教育战略有所启示与借鉴。%The complexities of today’s world require all nation to be equipped with scientific and technological innovation as well as all kinds of talents. Having a profound understanding of this point, the U.S. government put STEM (science, technology, en-gineering, and mathematics) education at the top of the priority list and issued policies to provide high-quality STEM learning experi-ence in particular contexts and to serve diverse learners. In September 2016, the U.S. Department of Education, in collaboration with American Institutes for Research (AIR) released a report named “STEM 2026:A Vision for Innovation in STEM Education” (hitherto referred to as STEM 2026) which aims to provide all students greater equity of access to high-quality STEM learning experience. This report describes more detail in the six components of STEM 2026:communities of practice, learning activities, educational experi-ence, learning spaces, learning measures and societal and cultural images and environment. The reminder of this report also puts the direction of development and challenges in 10 years into consideration , such as long-standing patterns in educational resources allo-cation and lack of research on early education. On the basis of analyzing the development of STEM education policies from 1986 to the current, this article extracts the future development direction of STEM education in America and the strategies to deal with the challenges, which will inspire us as to the STEM education strategy in China.
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