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By: Brian Stack
 Recently, I had the opportunity to listen to Justin Reich, executive director of the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Systems Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spoke to a group of teachers about the changing landscape of the workplace and the need for more technology education. Reich made an observation that has stuck with me to today regarding the overwhelming role that technology plays in our world.
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EdSurge
In the Silicon Valley, they call it the "3 percent problem." African-Americans and Latino/Hispanics make up a tiny fraction of the overwhelmingly white, male-dominated workforce of major technology companies. No leader of the top 10 U.S.-based technology companies is African-American or Latino/Hispanic, and only one is a woman — Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM.
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
Education experts know that meeting kids on their level is often the best way to teach concepts — particularly if those concepts are perceived as being bland and boring. That's often the way young students look at coding, a fundamental step in learning how computers think and function. But by connecting the seemingly dull with an activity most kids can relate to, Jason Freeman is changing attitudes about technology.
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Education Week
Lawmakers in Delaware are considering a bill that would require all public high schools in the state to offer at least one computer science course. The state house unanimously approved the legislation, and now it's under consideration in the senate. The bill, which was sponsored by Democratic Rep. Debra Heffernan, would require computer science instruction in all public high schools by the 2020-2021 school year.
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NewsLeader
A bill has been introduced in the Virginia House of Delegates that would allow high school students to substitute computer coding for the foreign language requirement for a high school diploma. The bill was introduced and referred to the committee on education. The sponsor of the bill is Del. Glenn R. Davis, R-Virginia Beach.
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eSchool News
Harvard professor David Malan has managed to pull off a neat trick: His Computer Science 50 course is the most popular course at both Harvard and Yale. By examining his success, we can learn some important lessons about effective teaching. CS50 assumes no prior knowledge or skill in computer programming, yet it's extremely demanding. Despite its rigor, CS50 regularly attracts thousands of students each year. While some aspire to become software engineers, others enroll just to experience the course.
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District Administration Magazine
Makerspaces reinforce STEM skills and enable more authentic learning. While there are a variety of ways to design and build makerspaces, there are some key strategies administrators can employ to ensure their program is successful.
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NPR
Girls in the first few years of elementary school are less likely than boys to say that their own gender is "really, really smart," and less likely to opt into a game described as being for super-smart kids, research finds. The study, which appears in Science, comes amid a push to figure out why women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, fields. One line of research involves stereotypes, and how they might influence academic and career choices.
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