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Washington Examiner
Debate is raging over the statistic that even though roughly 74 percent of female elementary school students express an interest in STEM, less than 1 percent eventually choose computer science as a college major. Microsoft put out an ad where they guilt-tripped young girls to "Stay in STEM" and the Spectator recently published an article that argues the lack of female computer science majors is simply the result of a lack of interest on the part of women. These concerns ultimately miss the point.
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News-Press Now
Two months ago, Gov. Mike Parson signed into law a bill focused on establishing a STEM computer education program for students at various levels of education. STEM is a project-based learning system focusing on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and with the governor's signature, the new program, which places an emphasis on computer science, will be designed to increase student awareness of various career opportunities available to them in the future. The program also will allow these computer science courses to count as a math or science credit toward graduation.
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The Tennessean
The hands of Overton High School students dig into Dell computers, performing complex surgery to reassemble the machines. Other students, finished piecing together their devices on a recent school day, huddle around a screen to see if their computers will boot up during a recent lesson on how to take apart and put the desktops together.
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The Columbian
High school sophomore Dima Faraj held his finger in the air, tracing a diamond. He leaned into his laptop, where zoomed-in, white type was displayed on a black screen as he troubleshot several lines of code. This is Dima's Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles class, where he and his classmates are practicing using a coding language called Quorum to draw diamonds on a grid. The challenge? Dima and his classmates at the Washington State School for the Blind are visually impaired, making the already difficult task of coding even more complicated.
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The News-Gazette
It's often hard to get a glimpse at how the sausage gets made when it comes to high school curricula. But an initiative started by the University of Illinois offers a glimpse into the burgeoning field of computer-science instruction in Illinois. Because Chicago Public Schools now requires all high schoolers to take at least one computer science class in order to graduate, the UI is launching the Illinois Secondary Teacher Education and Computer Science initiative, which aims to establish an undergraduate program to certify future high school computer-science teachers.
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EdSurge
Statistics show that "computer science" programs produce fewer bachelor's degree graduates in the U.S. when compared with other STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) majors, as can be seen in the image below. For several years now, researchers have been conducting studies to find the relationship between students and their relatively low interest in computer science.
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Oregon Public Broadcasting
As the teacher explained how to program electronics with a tablet, 11-year-old Mieka Myers yawned. But then, her computer science class took a sharp turn, from teaching kids how to use technology, to telling them a story about a person who needed a new product. Mieka lit up. "Yay! We get to to do something creative!" she squealed, as she was introduced to Shawna, an imaginary performance artist living 80 years from now.
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Boston Herald
Young students will expand their learning to a new frontier in 2019 — as coding is incorporated into more and more classrooms nationwide. "Learning to code is critical because it gives students the opportunity to be creative in how they learn," said Chad Mazza, principal at the Winter Hill Community School, where students last year started using games to incorporate coding into their learning
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