{"id":1389,"date":"2016-08-31T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/matheducation\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2016-08-30T15:15:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T19:15:54","slug":"announcement-regarding-white-house-office-of-science-and-technology-policy-call-to-action-on-active-learning-in-stem-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/matheducation\/2016\/08\/31\/announcement-regarding-white-house-office-of-science-and-technology-policy-call-to-action-on-active-learning-in-stem-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement Regarding White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Call to Action on Active Learning in STEM Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By\u00a0Benjamin Braun, Editor-in-Chief, University of Kentucky<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is an announcement to the mathematical community that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2016\/08\/17\/call-action-incorporating-active-stem-learning-strategies-k-12-and-higher-education\" target=\"_blank\">Call to\u00a0Action for incorporating Active Learning in K-12 and higher education STEM courses<\/a>. Their call includes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/webform\/call-action-incorporating-active-stem-learning-strategies-k-12-and-higher-education\" target=\"_blank\">submission form<\/a>\u00a0where they ask:\u00a0&#8220;What\u00a0new (i.e., not yet public) activities or actions is your organization undertaking to respond to the Call to Action to improve STEM teaching and learning through the use of active learning strategies?&#8221; The deadline for submission of responses is Sept 23, 2016. \u00a0It would be excellent for the mathematics community to be well-represented among the submissions, so I\u00a0encourage our readers to submit their activities and to share this information with others.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Benjamin Braun, Editor-in-Chief, University of Kentucky This is an announcement to the mathematical community that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has issued a Call to\u00a0Action for incorporating Active Learning in K-12 and higher education STEM &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/matheducation\/2016\/08\/31\/announcement-regarding-white-house-office-of-science-and-technology-policy-call-to-action-on-active-learning-in-stem-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/matheducation\/2016\/08\/31\/announcement-regarding-white-house-office-of-science-and-technology-policy-call-to-action-on-active-learning-in-stem-education\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[230,229],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","tag-announcement","tag-ostp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6C2AC-mp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/matheducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/matheducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/matheducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/matheducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/matheducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/matheducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/matheducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/matheducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/matheducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/matheducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}