The 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education (21PSTEM), an independent nonprofit research & practice organization dedicated to transforming education

Joined May 2019
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Math Empowerment Through Standards Based Grading is off to a running start after our first trip to two of our pilot schools in Portland! #mathempowerment #standardsbasedgrading #middlegrademath #matheducation #mathachievement
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ME-SBG staff co-hosted a day-long professional development with Lincoln IU12 on Standards Based Grading with 20 participants. We're thrilled to see Standards Based Grading make an impact in schools across PA! #mathempowerment #standardsbasedgrading #middlegrademath #matheducation
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What does ME-SBG mean? How can it help students learn math? Our introductory video goes over the purpose and goals of Mathematical Empowerment Through Standards-Based Grading. Take a look below! #mesbg #mathempowerment #standardsbasedgrading #middleschoolmath #matheducation
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15 Dec 2025
Math Empowerment through Standards-Based Grading (ME-SBG) has a new website. Learn more about how our U.S. Dept of Ed–funded work supports meaningful feedback, reassessment, and stronger middle school math learning. mathempowerment.org #SBG #MiddleSchoolMath #MathEducation
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9 Dec 2025
ME-SBG is attending the Pennsylvania Standards Aligned System Conference, hosted by the Pennsylvania Department of Education! #mesbg #mathempowerment #middleschoolmath #DepartmentOfEducation #education
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5 Dec 2025
Math Empowerment through Standards-Based Grading (ME-SBG) now has a new home: mathempowerment.org ME-SBG is a U.S. Department of Education EIR project led by The 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education (21PSTEM). #StandardsBasedGrading #AssessmentForLearning #MESBG

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27 Oct 2025
Find us at the exhibitor hall during breakfast and lunch on Tuesday! #fullscale #fullscalesymposium #21pstem #mathempowerment
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1 Oct 2025
21PSTEM is going to New Orleans! 21PSTEM is sending representatives to the upcoming Full Scale Symposium in New Orleans to talk about ME-SBG, our latest project about empowering students to take charge of their education in mathematics. symposium2025.fullscalelearn…

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21 Aug 2025
The critically acclaimed book on educational transformation, titled New Era- New Urgency: The Case for Repurposing Education, is now available for pre-order in paperback from Bloomsbury Books/US. Click here for the publisher's discount: bloomsbury.com/us/new-era--n…
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Prof Barbara Liskov, Turing winner and programming pioneer @MIT_CSAIL 👩‍💻 ✅ Fascinating interview -- "If I’m working on a problem and need to understand exactly why an algorithm works, I’m not going to apply machine learning." #WomenInSTEM quantamagazine.org/barbara-l…

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6 Jun 2019
Beginning in 2012, our USAID funded STEM pilot school schools in Egypt were so lauded that the Egyptian government, working with USAID, south to expand from the initial 3 school design to 27, one for each governorate. #STEM #STEMed #STEMEgypt #STEMovation @21PSTEM
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6 Jun 2019
Thomas Goldberger no doubt being floored by one of our STEM School student's semester long design challenge capstone projects to address the grand challenges of Egypt. #STEM #STEMEgypt #STEMed #STEMOVATION
6 Jun 2019
Providing the foundations of our STEM School Model to our new partner Arcadia University who will be working with us on our new contract with USAID to support the STEM Schools we developed and the creation of STEM teacher and leader education at five Egyptian universities.
#ICYMI: The School of Education hosted a STEM Education Symposium, led by Professor Emerita Dr. Deborah Pomeroy and F. Joseph Merlino '88M.Ed., who shared how they apply innovative design framework for STEM high schools in Egypt to curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
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6 Jun 2019
The first in a series of sharing past news of successes from our widely lauded Egyptian STEM Schools project, funded by USAID. #STEM #STEMEgypt
3 May 2019
We are so happy to have @ArcadiaSOE be a part of the USAID-funded project @21PSTEM is leading to support the curriculum & assessments we developed for the world's best STEM schools in Egypt and now create STEM teacher and leaders diploma programs in 5 Egyptian Universities #STEM
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Today, deans from four universities in #Egypt visited campus to learn more about Arcadia’s teaching practices and innovative students— join us in extending a warm welcome! #21PSTEM
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3 May 2019
We are happy that Fresno State is part of our team! @21PSTEM has been leading innovative STEM curriculum and assessment development in Egyptian STEM Schools and now is leading STEM teacher and leader program development with the help of Fresno State and others funded by USAID.
As part of a $24.2 million award from @USAID, deans and faculty from #FresnoState will assist Egypt in increasing STEM education. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/2IirWga