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Federal STEM Education Strategic Plan Priorities

A Vision for STEM in America

The United States will inspire, educate, train, and innovate in STEM fields and STEM careers, so that through unparalleled access and opportunity, the nation can leverage the full potential of its STEM talent and ensure the country's national security, economic prosperity, and global competitiveness.

The Federal Strategic Plan for Advancing STEM Education and Cultivating STEM Talent (2024) outlines three cross-cutting principles that serve as a framework for the national STEM community.

  • Access and opportunity for all
  • Partnerships and ecosystem development
  • Transparency and accountability
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Tandem with these principles are five interdependent pillars to advance STEM education and cultivate STEM talent across the nation:

  • STEM Engagement: Addresses the need to engage learners of all ages, their families, and communities with the objectives of fostering youth, community, and public engagement to connect research and practice and build STEM skills and STEM literacy for lifelong learning.
  • STEM Teaching and Learning: Develop a STEM teacher workforce at all education levels to effectively prepare learners of all ages in and across STEM disciplines.
  • STEM Workforce: Address the need to build an agile national workforce with STEM skills and expertise to meet critical and emerging scientific and technological needs facing the nation.
  • STEM Research and Innovation Capacity: Advance research related to teaching and learning in STEM fields and expand research an innovation capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions.
  • STEM Environments: Remove barriers that prevent STEM learners, researchers, and workers from workers from remaining in STEM fields and careers.