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Clemson Newsstand
Clemson faculty researchers are using a near $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help computer science teachers across South Carolina develop teaching methods that better serve the state's diverse population. The research aims to broaden participation in computer science by improving teaching methods and discovering what does and doesn't work in computer science classrooms for different student audiences.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The National Math and Science Initiative has worked for years with organizations such as The College Board and code.org to highlight the growing need for computer science skills and literacy across career disciplines, and we are encouraged by the Pennsylvania State Board of Education’s resolution to offer computer science education to all public school students. We urge Pennsylvania education leaders to continue leveraging proven nonprofit resources to expand access and achievement.
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Silicon Slopes
At Silicon Slopes, we believe every child should have equal opportunities to learn and that quality education should be available to youth despite their ethnicity, gender identity, socioeconomic status, or background. "We need to equip our youth with the skills needed to thrive in the 21st century. Computer science is central to that and transcends industries. From arts to manufacturing to agriculture to technology to the social sector... all organizations are impacted by technology," said Aaron Skonnard, CEO of Pluralsight "We want to ensure every youth has the skills needed to create their own futures."
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UCLA Newsroom
Jane Margolis, senior researcher at UCLA's Center X, brings her firsthand experience of inequities in a technical field to her work on bringing computer science education to all students. A summer job as a telephone operator shortly after college led her to become one of the first female telephone installers for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph in the 1970s. She went on to Harvard's Graduate School of Education where she studied gender socialization and gender, race and inequities in education.
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National Science Foundation
The National Science Board released its policy companion statement to Science and Engineering Indicators 2018, "Our nation's future competitiveness relies on building a STEM-capable U.S. workforce." The statement underscores the Board's view that growing the nation's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce is critical for our economy and global competitiveness. It offers recommendations for strengthening a diverse STEM-capable U.S. workforce inclusive of all levels of education.
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Jackson Clarion Ledger
The Mississippi Department of Education is following the lead of Southern states like Virginia and Arkansas by expressing a commitment that all students should have exposure to computer science by 2024. It's an ambitious plan in a state where 40 percent of residents lack access to broadband services, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Education officials say Mississippi can't afford to wait.
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Los Angeles Times
Adams Elementary School in Costa Mesa is offering its first official computer coding lessons for fourth- through sixth-graders every Friday for the rest of the school year. An instructor from CodeCampus, a company that offers coding classes throughout Orange County, uses the free online program Scratch to teach lessons based on a Common Core State Standards curriculum.
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Wyoming Public Media
As lawmakers are discussing whether to add computer science and computational thinking to the state educational curriculum, they are looking to Powell as an example. Powell is one of only five school districts teaching computer science. Wyoming Public Radio's Kamila Kudelska takes a deeper dive into how their curriculum has developed and persisted throughout the years.
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Reuters
From crop planting to coding, secondary schools worldwide need to teach more practical skills and digital know-how to prepare teens for the future, said UNICEF's new global chief. "We're re-looking at secondary education because we don’t think we’ve gotten it right," Henrietta Fore, executive director of the U.N. children's agency, said in an interview. "It may not be as forward-looking as it could be," she said on the sidelines of the Global Partnership for Education, an education financing conference, in Senegal's capital Dakar.
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Dailyuw
In the early 1980s, Sheryl Burgstahler met a 6-year-old boy named Randy who had a congenital condition called Arthrogryposis, which caused the paralysis of both his arms and legs. He wanted to move from a special education first grade class to a general education class but wasn't allowed to because he was unable to write. Burgstahler began to work with him on learning to write with an Apple II computer. He put a stick in his mouth and used it to hit keys. She worked with an engineering student to create a device that would aid his typing. Needless to say, the educational system and the technology available to aid his learning was failing Randy. Despite these challenges, he still works with computers to this day.
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Quartz
If there's any career advice that's become more than a little trite, it's telling young people to "embrace failure." However, the polished Silicon Valley types who tout this wisdom usually have a strong safety net and a deep network to rely on. That's what makes Reshma Saujani so refreshing. As the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, Saujani has given free computer-science education to over 40,000 young women in all 50 US states. She's delivered speeches at the White House, is a mentee of Hilary Clinton, and can text Sheryl Sandberg on a whim. Hers sounds like another out-of-touch success story.
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ACM, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. CSTA appreciates ACM's ongoing support!
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