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EdSurge
During the past few years data security has moved out of the shadows and basements of IT departments and into the global conversation. Today's news cycle is littered with reports of high-profile hacks on credit reporting bureaus, ransomware attacks against schools and individuals and sensitive data stolen from brands like Target and LinkedIn. In the first half of last year there were more than 2,000 disclosed data breaches involving more than 6 billion records, according to the cyberanalytics firm Risk Based Security.
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Education Week
Alante Klyce wants to be a dancer. Yet here she is, inside a sun-filled classroom at Lindblom Math & Science Academy on the city's South Side, throwing around tech-industry terms like "ideation" and working with friends to design her first mobile app. It's all part of the introductory computer-science course that every student in Chicago must now take in order to graduate. "I'm still not really that into technology," said Klyce, 15. "But this is actually my favorite class now."
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
Leah Brumgard majors in studio art at Swarthmore College, Jeff Novak in math, and William Colgan in biology. But all three have a second major: Computer science. The trio is far from unusual. More than 70 students are dual majoring in computer science and another subject this year at the prestigious liberal arts college in Delaware County, and more than 50 have selected computer science as their sole major. Computer science has become the second most popular major on the 1,620-student campus, behind economics. It's a far shift from as recently as 2010, when there were fewer than a dozen computer-science graduates.
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Fortune
Barbie has had many careers: Aerobics instructor, paleontologist, and scuba diver, to name a few. Now, the 59-year-old doll is taking on yet another role — teaching girls to code. Toymaker Mattel announced a series of Barbie-branded coding lessons at the annual International Toy Fair in New York, which kicked off last Saturday. The new curriculum is the product of a partnership with Mountain View, California.-based startup Tynker, which makes educational programming tools for kids.
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Education Week
Computer science is taking off in K-12 schools, fueled in part by hundreds of millions of dollars and aggressive lobbying from the technology industry. Cue the concerned chorus. Is Silicon Valley — currently under harsh scrutiny for its consumer products and services — attempting to reshape public schools to serve its own ends? How are the tech industry's desires and dollars actually shaping what computer science looks like in real classrooms? And given rapid advances in artificial intelligence, will a short-term focus on filling today's tech-sector jobs ultimately backfire?
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EdScoop News
Rhode Island says it has achieved the first major goal in its plan for statewide computer science education, with all public schools students now exposed to some computer science in the classroom. The announcement comes nearly two years after Gov. Gina Raimondo said she wanted to expose every K-12 student in the state to computer science instruction by December 2017. At the time she issued the challenge, March 2016, just nine Rhode Island public high schools offered AP computer science and only 42 public high school students took the related test. In 2017, students took 247 AP exams at 37 Rhode Island high schools.
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The Associated Press via Casper Star-Tribune Online
A measure that would require Wyoming K-12 schools to provide all students with computer science instruction has been endorsed by a state Senate committee despite concerns from some that it could be tough for small schools to offer the new course. The Senate Education Committee unanimously approved Senate File 29. The proposal now goes to the full Senate for debate.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
Legislation to encourage young girls to explore careers in computer science — and push early childhood learning in science, technology, engineering and math — passed the House. The legislation was a combination of bills filed by Rep. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., a former computer programmer. The noncontroversial measure passed on a unanimous voice vote. Rosen said the measure would "help Nevada's students by investing in our children so they can meet the challenges of a changing economy that increasingly relies on high-skilled labor and technology." She said STEM education would help build a work force "that helps America's economy stay globally competitive." The bill now goes to the Senate for approval.
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