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Fred Martin, a contributor for The Advocate, writes: “Many of us remember the New Math from personal experience. I do from elementary school in the 1970s in West Hurley, New York. I loved it. I learned that the decimal system is arbitrary and numbers could be expressed in any base. That was fascinating. Of course, I was the kid who learned his times tables for fun. The New Math emphasized understanding the rule-systems that underlie numbers. In elementary school, it constructed the very concept of number with set theory rather than by rote counting.”
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Arkansas Online
Texas was the first state to require that all high schools teach computer science, but Arkansas schools catapulted ahead in the past year after a mandate from the governor backed by millions in funding, said state and national advocates. In Texas, a single state school board member pushed to require high schools to teach the classes. But few schools are following the policy and Texas has put up little if any state money to train teachers. In Arkansas, Gov. Asa Hutchinson made computer coding a state priority and pushed a bill to provide funding for teacher training and to mandate that high schools offer the courses. It also requires that the classes count as math or science credits instead of an elective.
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Baseline
America is no longer a nation that's at risk of falling behind in science and engineering education. Rather, it's a nation that's falling further behind. We all know that young people are adept at using smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. But let's not mistake mastery of these devices with having in-depth knowledge about computers. For example, my teenage sons, like many young people, are aces at using social media and blasting through videos and other content. However, they usually don't grasp the basics about how to configure and use computing devices. And forget about them delving into the deeper aspects of computing and coding.
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EdTech Magazine
A new coalition backed by some of Silicon Valley's brightest stars wants to shake up how students are taught computer science — and it couldn't have arrived at a better time. For years, education leaders have been trying to foster growth for the next generation of computer science experts, a field expected to grow dramatically over the next decade. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, "employment of computer and information research scientists is projected to grow 11 percent from 2014 to 2024, faster than the average for all occupations."
Editor's Note: The Computer Science Teachers Association is also a member of the Computer Science Education Coalition (CSEC).
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WGBA-TV
There is a push in schools across the country to add computer coding to the curriculum. Florida lawmakers recently debated becoming the first state to try it. The state Senate passed the bill, but it died in the House. Legislators in four other states are currently discussing similar bills. The inputs, outputs, characters and numbers make up our every conversation from text messages to Internet history. Even though we use it every day, to many of us, the coding language is foreign.
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San Francisco Chronicle
In January 2014, the state bureau that regulates for-profit vocational schools sent cease-and-desist letters to nine coding boot camps operating in California without a license, threatening to shut them down if they didn't get approval. It later sent similar letters to at least eight others that appeared to be unlicensed boot camps. Yet in all that time, only two have gotten licensed — Dev Bootcamp and General Assembly. Of the original nine, eight have "submitted some kind of application," said Joanne Wenzel, chief of the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education.
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Education Week
A New York coding academy's acquisition of a Chicago coding school, and international transactions in Latin America and India dominate recent dealmaking news. Fullstack Academy Acquires The Starter League: The New York City-based coding school has acquired The Starter League, a coding school based in Chicago. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. As a result of the transaction, Fullstack will open its first campus outside of New York City in June, according to Fullstack's blog. "The new location will offer the same intensive, JavaScript curriculum as Fullstack Academy's first campus in New York City," Fullstack noted.
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MyBroadband
QS Top Universities has released its latest "World University Rankings by Subject" report, detailing the top tertiary institutions at which to study computer science and engineering. The rankings cover 42 disciplines, with the latest report "highlight the world's top-performing universities in each academic area."
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Pasadena Star-News
If there's one thing Grant Hosford has learned, it's that kids are fearless. Hosford is the co-founder and CEO of codeSpark, a Pasadena-based tech company that teaches young children the ABCs of computer science through its signature game app, The Foos. The company launched the app in December 2014 and more than 250,000 children played the game in the first two months alone. "Kids are built to learn," Hosford said. "The app doesn't have a lot of instruction. It's built to be exploratory so you just figure it out as you go. Adults will often freeze up without written instructions, but kids will play three levels by the time an adult touches the screen."
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eSchool News
Programs between the education, business communities help students become engaged in computer science courses from a younger age. Computer science education is enjoying more prominence thanks to awareness efforts such as the Hour of Code, as well as states' efforts to put more weight behind Advanced Placement computer science course credits. As computer science grows in popularity, some districts are going beyond traditional courses and are partnering with local businesses to take their computer science education to the next step.
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