CHAPTER 10: Stem Education is Not Only an Integrated Curriculum: STEM as Part of an Integrated Neoliberal Agenda

This piece refutes the U.S. STEM-worker shortage, a globally failing STEM education system in the United States and that these factors negatively impact the U.S. market. Underlying economic benefits of continuing this dominant narrative are to keep U.S. STEM salaries low, provide a rationale for issuing more H1-B visas to employ lower-paid foreign workers and offer an entrée (with support from the Obama administration) to the corporatization of K–12 and teacher education.