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CSTA
Stephanie Hoeppner, a contributor for The Advocate, writes: "I sat in a small conference room in the summer of 2009 with several other CS teachers from around the U.S. CSTA brought us all there for advocacy leadership training and the beginning of what some called a grass roots movement for CS. I remember feeling excited that there were all of these other people just like me — passionate about CS Education and who were interested in helping it grow however they could. We learned about advocacy at local, regional, and state levels. We talked about our struggles, the situation of teacher certification, whether or not our state recognized CS, and formed friendships that last till this day."
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WMTV-TV
Keeping up with the evolving job market is proving difficult for many American schools. A new report by the Association for Competitive Technology shows hundreds of thousands of software developer job openings, but not enough people to fill them.
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CIO
For Obama administration officials, computer science education has become almost a moral issue. On the occasion of the release of a new report quantifying the economic benefit of the U.S. software industry, senior officials from the White House and the Department of Education described their efforts to expand computer science instruction for K-12 students, and even to introduce basic programming concepts at the preschool level.
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Center for American Progress
Join the Center for American Progress for a discussion about the importance of K-12 computer science education for maintaining U.S. economic competitiveness, preparing students for the good jobs of the future, and expanding opportunities for underrepresented communities. Currently, there are more than 500,000 unfilled computing jobs, but U.S. universities produced only 40,000 computer science graduates in 2014. Of those 40,000 graduates, only 9 percent are Hispanic and 8 percent African American. It is critical that all students, regardless of their racial backgrounds or zip codes, have access to the jobs of the future, which increasingly require computer science training.
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Fox News
Recently, state, industry and education leaders in the United States injected a breath of fresh air into our political system. Amid escalating polarization between presidential candidates, 28 bipartisan governors and 77 leading CEOs and educators from across the country asked Congress to fund K-12 computer science education. And now bipartisan congressional leaders are getting behind this issue with over 135 Republican and Democrats coming together to ask the Appropriations Committee to prioritize K-12 computer science education funding.
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THE Journal
Snohomish School District in Washington is equipping its teachers to teach coding skills. Beginning in the fall, teachers and students will use a coding platform from Ucodemy tailored to K-12 students. ITCH, an online learning environment with video lessons, incorporates interactive stories, games and animations to teach basic coding skills to students. The platform guides users through core concepts to a level where they can design and create projects on their own. Students can watch videos and view directions in the same window. Additionally, teachers can access collaborative tools and coding curriculums on ITCH. They can modify existing courses or create new ones in the website's user interface.
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Network World
Computer science graduates are in demand. Last year, 76 percent of computer science graduates were working full time within six months of finishing school — the highest full-time employment rate among new college graduates and well above the 58 percent average across all majors, according to a new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. But as veterans in the tech world know, earning a degree is just the beginning of a new professional's education. To help this year's newcomers navigate the transition from academic life to the professional world, we asked tech pros to share their best advice for computer science graduates entering the workforce.
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The Hechinger Report
Recently, a few hand-sized, hexagonal robots took over a third-grade classroom in Southborough, Massachusetts. They climbed a whiteboard and drew all over it while flashing multicolored LEDs and chirping musically. All the while, they were teaching kids to code.
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PC Magazine
Sphero's educational SPRK robot just got a lot more kid-proof. Designed to educate and inspire children through connected play and coding, the next-gen SPRK+ is now scratch-proof, shock resistant, and watertight. But it is more than just an indestructible ball: Powered by the Lightning App, the new gadget teaches foundational programming through STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and design, math) activities.
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Quartz
Y-Combinator's Paul Graham knew that working for a Silicon Valley giant was every programmer's dream back in the day but he was surprised — and somewhat disappointed — to find that little has changed. As the technology sector grows, the demand for computer science skills is increasing at a faster pace than the number of graduates being churned out by top tier institutes. For instance, Massachusetts' technology and computer science fields have 17 job openings for each recent in-state graduate with a computing and mathematics degree, according to the 2016 State of the Technology Economy report.
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