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Mark Nelson, a contributor for The Advocate, writes: "When asked for a New Year's prediction a few weeks ago, I responded that 2016 would be the Year of Computer Science Education. I did not anticipate just how accurate that prediction would turn out to be just 30 days later. And it appears that we are just getting started, thanks to the incredible support and commitment of the White House and this Administration on behalf of CS education and CS teachers."
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The New York Times
President Barack Obama will call for spending $4 billion to help states pay for computer science education in the schools when he presents his 2017 budget to Congress, administration officials say. If approved by the Republican-led Congress, the money will pay for teacher training and instructional materials to increase the amount of instruction in computer science, especially for girls and minorities, the officials said.
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The Lansing State Journal
More than 400 students and teachers from across the state huddled around iPads and other computer devices inside Michigan State University's Breslin Center. Video games, virtual reality glasses and Segways were all part of the launch of a new partnership between Google and the Michigan Film and Digital Media Office. The idea is simple — get kids interested in evolving technology early — said Mike Miller, head of Google’s Ann Arbor office.
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IEEE TryComputing.org offers free educator resources to help students build computing skills and explore computing careers. Find a wide range of interactive computing lesson plans for students ages 8-18. Lessons topics include programming, concurrency, networking, encryption, artificial intelligence, and more! All lesson plans are aligned to national education standards.
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Samsung for Education
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As schools adopt mobile technology at an unprecedented pace, the need for best-in-class mobile devices, support and services is growing rapidly. Samsung Mobile is committed to supporting mobile-first initiatives, offering a comprehensive portfolio of enterprise solutions.
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The Christian Science Monitor
President Barack Obama unveiled a plan to help students learn computer science. Obama says he'll seek more than $4 billion from Congress to fund a new program called, "Computer Science For All." The plan aims to reboot computer science education in public schools to better prepare kids for a future workforce. If funding is approved, the program would offer competitive grants to states and school districts with achievable plans on how to expand access to computer science and districts would need to describe computer science education plans that can be nationally replicated. Bonus points will be awarded for plans designed to attract more female and minority students.
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Mashable
The lack of women and girls in computer science is a well-documented problem. Now it's time for the average person to finally do something about it. In the 1980s, even when companies primarily marketed personal computers to boys, there was more gender parity in the professional field. About 37 percent of computer science undergraduate degrees were awarded to women in 1984; that number decreased to 18 percent in 2014. It's estimated only one in every four schools in the U.S. teaches coding, even though 56 percent of teachers think it should be mandatory.
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Edutopia
In President Barack Obama's final State of the Union address, he expressed the importance of "helping students learn to write computer code." In a recent YouTube video for Code.org, Obama spoke to students, urging them to "master the tools and technology that will change just about everything." Obama is correct. Our students' focus must shift from passive purveyors of technology to creators of programs, apps, and inventions. We must push them past low levels of static reception into a dynamic mindset, highlighting and nourishing thought and imagination to improve our world.
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Brooklyn Paper
Hundreds of Brooklyn public schools took part in an online coding workshop, helping Borough President Adams win a bet he made with Chicago educators over which town could rally the most educational institutions into participating. 80 percent of borough schools participated in the Hour of Code — an hour-long crash-course in creating computer programs — crushing the Midwestern fly-over town, which only managed to mobilize a scant 60 percent of its schools, according to the Beep.
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The Huffington Post
The United States has a problem with access to computer science programs in schools. In nine states, not a single African-American student took an AP computer science exam last year. Significantly fewer girls took the exam than boys. A new initiative announced by the White House seeks to rectify some of these inequalities. The plan comes after President Barack Obama announced his commitment to expanding computer science offerings during this year's State of the Union address, in which he said he wants to every student to have hands-on computer science and math classes.
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