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Sunday, May 10, 2026

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Better K-12 pipeline needed for STEM

Excelling in STEM education will require “redefined and re-imagined” colleges of education, said USF Provost and Executive Vice President Ralph Wilcox at the Dec. 8 Board of Trustees meeting. Increased STEM—short for science, technology, engineering and math—attainment starts in the “problematic” K-12 pipeline, he said. Florida students currently score 18 points lower on the SAT