LTF promotes the technical well-being of Minorities and Women. We will offer discounted computer training programs that help them close the digital gap.
• Only 12 percent of black students and 17 percent of Hispanic students took Algebra I before high school in 2009. Conversely, 48 percent of Asian students took Algebra I before high school in 2009.
• According the Boy’s and Girl’s Clubs of America’s website, “STEM education is critical to the future success of young people as STEM jobs in the United States are expected to grow nearly twice as fast as other fields by 2018. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of both interested and adequately prepared K-12 students in STEM subjects, especially among minority youth and young women.”
• In 2009, 12 percent of STEM workers were non-Hispanic black and Hispanic. But non-Hispanic black and Hispanic individuals accounted for 25 percent of overall employment.
• 26 nations: The number of industrialized nations whose high school students performed better than U.S. students in math in 2012.
• 19 nations: The number of industrialized nations whose high school students performed better than U.S. students in science in 2012.
• In 2008, 31 percent of U.S. bachelor’s degrees were awarded in science and engineering fields, compared with 61 percent in Japan and 51 percent in China.
• Women received 29.6 percent of computer science B.A.’s in 1991, compared to 18.2 percent in 2010.