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Earn your Cyber Teacher Certificate issued by the Computer Science Teachers Association and delivered by LifeJourney. Includes 8 CEUs. Fully sponsored with no cost to you or your school. Click here to register.
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TechCrunch
Code.org, which started offering an advanced placement computer science principles this school year in partnership with The College Board, could more than double the number of underrepresented minorities enrolled in AP computer science classes across the nation. During the last school year, 8,442 underrepresented minorities (black, Latinx, American Indian/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander) took the AP Computer science test in the U.S., according to The College Board. For the sake of comparison, 15,913 Asian students and 26,698 white students took the AP CS exam last school year, while just 2,027 black students and 6,256 latinx students took the exam.
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GeekWire
We already know that Microsoft, Amazon and Zillow made multimillion-dollar donations to help build a new University of Washington computer science and engineering building. But another tech giant has also contributed to the expansion — albeit in a quieter way. Google confirmed to GeekWire today that it is donating $10 million to the University of Washington. The gift is "a mix of support for research projects and research facilities," according to a new mention on the UW website for the second computer science building, which counts Google's donation among the $90 million in commitments raised for the project.
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Education Week
Students with disabilities are as likely as typically developing students to enter science and engineering fields in college, according to new data from the National Science Foundation. The finding is part of the NSF's annual study of students from traditionally underrepresented groups — including women, minorities, and students with disabilities — in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
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KGAB-AM
A spokeswoman for the Wyoming Department of Education says Superintendent Jillian Balow is disappointed that bills to emphasize computer science and civics have failed to win approval in the Wyoming Legislature. Kari Eakins says "We were really hoping to have a better emphasis" on the two subject areas. She says a bill that would have weighted computer science courses more heavily for getting the larger Hathaway Scholarships has been amended to remove that provision.
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Arizona Public Media
Arizona public and charter school students Between fourth and 12th grade will have to take a one-hour computer coding class if Senate Bill 1136 passes. The proposal, sponsored by Republican Sen. John Kavanagh of Fountain Hills, is supposed to help the tech industry. "It is really about giving students a taste. It is planting a seed to interest students, many of whom may never even know what coding is, to get to pique their interests to when they might want to pursue this down the line," said Kavanagh.
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ChicagoNow
Learning to code has been called the most important 21st-century skill. Tangibles, or physical objects designed to embody mathematical concepts, have been proven as crucial to development and approachable for kids. Chicago is rich in culture and creative opportunities to learn in a productive environment throughout different community programs and schools. Frances Judd displays that educational diversity through her work as an educational coordinator at Bennett Day School in Fulton Market District.
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WBAY
Pulaski School District elementary school students are learning a high-demand skill set with the hope it may help them eventually find an in-demand job. It's not just reading and writing anymore. Kids as young as kindergarten are learning computer coding. "We really felt the need for this based on what the job market was telling us as well and college careers that were available," said Jenny Cracyalny, director of learning services. This is the first year coding is a part of the K-5 curriculum, much like math or science.
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