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Education Week
A new report by the Southern Regional Education Board, or SREB, provides states with a roadmap to improving computer science education. The report entitled, "Bridging the Computer Science Education Gap: Five Actions States Can Take." The SREB is a nonprofit, nonpartisan group based in Atlanta that was created in 1948 to improve education in the South from preschool through doctoral programs. Its members include: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
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EdSurge
Grant Smith, a contributor for EdSurge, writes: "With 2016 Computer Science Education Week in the rear-view mirror, I'd like to reflect on my hopes and dreams for 2017. Let's start with a few statistics: Over the past few years, more than 300 million people worldwide participated in the Hour of Code. And according to Google and Gallup's "2016 Trends in the State of Computer Science Report", 6 percent more schools offered at least one computer science class, compared to last year."
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Charleston Post Courier
All South Carolina public school students in kindergarten through eighth grade would be required to learn computer science beginning in 2018 under new standards proposed by the state Department of Education. A draft of the state's standards, released at the end of November, was designed in part to prepare S.C. students for the nation's technology-driven workforce. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, computer and information technology fields are expected to add nearly 500,000 new jobs between 2014 and 2024. A report by the National Center for Women and Information Technology projects 70 percent of new job openings in South Carolina could be filled by workers with computing degrees.
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The Washington Post
The United States has a computing-skills crisis that is holding back American companies and economic growth. The solution lies with girls and young women. Employers simply cannot fill positions that are becoming increasingly critical to their businesses. Recent data show that there are 500,000 open computing jobs in the United States and fewer than 40,000 new computer science graduates to fill them — only 7,000 of whom are women.
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CNN
The company is launching a new building and coding set at CES 2017 that brings movement to Legos. The Lego Boost kit lets kids build five different smart toy models, including a cat, robot and guitar, with the help of sensors and motors. The move follows the success of Lego's Mindstorms robotics kits, which are often used in computer science classes. Last year, Lego launched the WeDo 2.0 robotics kit to teach science and tech concepts to elementary students.
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EdTech Magazine
K-12 Google Chromebook sales surpassing 51 percent. President Obama declaring that computer science is for all. An explosion of augmented reality and virtual reality. In 2016, teachers, administrators and students truly were on the frontlines of incredible tech innovation. The good news is that all of this new technology didn't deter educators from dabbling and experimenting with it. For example, this year teachers said they were more comfortable using technology than ever before. Twenty-four percent of teachers surveyed by Education Week even said they considered themselves to be "risk takers" in terms of tech use.
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Colorado Springs Gazette
When a House speaker, especially in a first session, carries a computer education bill, you can bet it's a priority for the caucus. Crisanta Duran, the Denver Democrat set to become the state's first Latina speaker of the House on Jan. 11, said the road through Colorado's middle class and beyond starts with a good job. With boxes still unpacked around the perimeter of her new office, Duran was considering putting her name and clout behind a high-tech resource bank in the Department of Education. Sponsoring a bill is a time-consuming task, involving a series of committee hearings, making a case for it on the House floor and fending off lobbyists.
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