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CSTA
It's been amazing to see the power of teacher voice finally getting the respect it deserves this spring. In states across the country teachers have come together to speak with one voice and policy makers have listened. Although not as high profile, the same is true in the amazing policy gains for computer science education. Teachers across the country have come together to make sure their students have access to high quality computer science courses.
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USA Today
Tim Cook has been vocal about wanting students to learn to code. Recently, Apples CEO announced that the company is bringing its "Everyone Can Code" curricula for the Swift programming language to schools across the country that serve students who are deaf and blind. Cook tweeted, "Because when we say Everyone Can Code, we mean everyone."
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CSTA
Great things are happening for computer science education these days. It is exciting to see news and posts about more schools and districts incorporating CS courses. However, with the increasing speed that technology is changing and the more embedded it becomes in our everyday life, the conversation now derives on when and what to teach. The conversation also includes what knowledge or profile should a CS teacher have. There is no magic formula to incorporate CS into a school. Every school is different, every group of students is different and every teacher is different.
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Reuters
An all-girl school in New York combines coding and dance to encourage students to take an interest in science and technology. Elly Park reports.
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U.S. Department of Education
Continuing its efforts to emphasize the value and importance of education in science, technology, engineering and math, the U.S. Department of Education has partnered with the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum to launch the "She Can" Summer Camp.
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc
A legislative panel signed off on the state Department of Education's proposal to create a director of computer science/chief STEM officer post with an annual salary between $96,960 and $140,592. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math.
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The Associated Press via The Seattle Times
Uber Technologies is bringing its coding initiative to Delaware. The News Journal reports that the transportation network company will support Philadelphia-based nonprofit Coded by Kids' program at the Kingswood Community Center in Wilmington. The program is part of Uber's 8-80 Coding Initiative, which launched in Philadelphia last year to expand computer science education for those between 8 and 80 years old.
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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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