Threshold Magazine
Summer 2008

The Summer 2008 issue of Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education features articles focused on attracting women and minorities to careers in science, math, technology, and engineering, produced in partnership with the Center for Digital Education.

	If Geeks Will Inherit the Earth Catherine Didion explores ways to foster interest in science and engineering in all of your students.
	The 'Ick' Factor: Do Gender or Ethnicity Drive Stem Choices? The academic choices being made by girls and minorities show that schools need to do more to promote STEM careers and learning opportunities, according to Laura Reasoner Jones.
	Tools for Learning Technology is central to making STEM subjects accessible and engaging at all grade levels.
	STEM Initiatives: A Threshold Forum Marina Leight, Richard Blais, Ioannis N. Miaoulis, and Joyce Leavitt Winterton discuss ways to recruit more women and minorities into learning about and teaching science, technology, engineering, and math.
	What Do You Know? Senta A. Raizen and Steven A. Schneider discuss how assessment can be improved to give us a better picture of what students know and can do in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
	A New Age of Recruitment Barrie Jo Price suggests new methods for schools to use to recruit candidates into STEM teaching positions.
	Departments
	Explorations When the Revolution Comes: Cable in the Classroom’s Douglas Levin and Center for Digital Education's Marina Leight on ensuring access to STEM education for all students.
	About Threshold Who we are, what we do, and why.
	In Focus Minority teachers lagging for STEM subjects; girls and math; an engineer shortage ahead; and more.