Yes. At this point in time, literacy and numeracy seem to be the common denominator for governments as key priorities. It's understandable and we can talk about that. What we've been trying to do is help policy-makers think about the context for teaching the literacy and numeracy skills.
STEM provides a great context, a contextualization, but the fact of the matter is that when you have to try to bring together, either within a province.... Keep in mind that Canada is the only developed country without a secretary of state for learning, or a junior minister for learning, or a national department for education, so we are battling a jurisdictional issue. On top of having 15 systems of education that are trying to talk to each other, you have, within a province, the problem of trying to align a decentralized approach to education, in which a ministry will have the policies and priorities but then often decentralized decision-making at the school level.
There are very good reasons for it but it also means that you need to have your arrow, so if you are talking about what are key elements—