Editors Ardea Eichner and Lauren Miller discuss the differences between “STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math),” “STEAM (STEM plus art),” and “STREAM (STEAM plus reading),” weighing contexts in which each acronym might be useful and debating the merits of each.

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