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The Wichita Eagle
In the wake of the Soviet Union’s 1957 Sputnik launch, President Eisenhower confronted the reality that America’s educational standards were holding back the country’s opportunity to compete on a global technological scale. He responded and called for support of math and science, which resulted in the National Defense Education Act of 1958 and helped send the country to the moon by the end of the next decade. It also created the educational foundation for a new generation of technology, leadership and prosperity.
Today we face a similar challenge as the United States competes with nations across the globe in the indispensable field of computer science. To be up to the task, we must do a better job preparing our students for tomorrow’s jobs.
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U.S. News & World Report
Lisette Partelow, a contributor for U.S. News & World Report, writes: “Here are some of the more outlandish predictions for the jobs people might hold in the future: mind-uploading specialist, personalized microbiome steward or de-extinction zoologist. I, for one, am looking forward to my second career in 2030 as a professional "triber" and crowdfunding specialist. No one can really say for certain what the jobs of the future will be. A former educator with whom I recently met argued that uncertainty about the future job market means that giving students opportunities to learn computer science, while trendy, is essentially pointless. Whatever students learn now will be as out of date as MS-DOS and car phones by the time they can put it to use, he reasoned.”
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The Washington Times
Each year, the United States falls farther behind in educating K-12 students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). It falls behind in teaching the next generation of technology workers for American companies. And it falls behind in instructing cybersecurity professionals who will help protect our country. This deficiency puts our national security at greater risk. After years of analyzing this challenge, it’s now time for the federal government to act and help address this vulnerability.
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Market Brief
Teachers who are most confident about educational technology tend to work in low-poverty and suburban schools, bringing their students a wide range of experiences and potential benefits that other young people may lack, concludes a survey released by the Education Week Research Center.
For example: These teachers are far more likely than their less-confident counterparts to report daily use of digital curricula, learning management systems, and parent communication tools.
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The Huffington Post
“We live in a culture where we’re dissuaded to do things that are technical,” says Diana Navarro, an 18-year-old Rutgers University computer science major. “Younger girls see men, not women, doing all the techie stuff, programming and computer science.” So writes Martha Mendoza in The Washington Times.
Anecdotes are all too common these days, but what does the data say? Are these one-off stories or is the gender divide in STEM jobs real?
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WBUR
Massachusetts public schools may start using new digital literacy and computer science standards as soon as this fall. The state board of elementary and secondary education unanimously approved the standards, which are voluntary, at its monthly meeting Tuesday. "Today's vote recognizes the importance of digital literacy and computer science to modern life, work and learning," board chairman Paul Sagan said in a statement. "These standards will help our students think about problem solving in new ways and introduce them to valuable skills they will need in today's economy."
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The Huffington Post
The swift rise of coding bootcamps — accelerated vocational schools that prepare students to become professional software developers — has understandably raised concerns about what it means to be a properly trained software engineer. Loyalists to the computer science degree believe that these coding newcomers lack the theoretical background to sustain a long-term career in the industry. They also perceive "bootcampers" to have inferior programming skills when interviewing for developer positions.
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Education Week
Computer science education and STEM education would get extra attention and resources under a proposal released by Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Clinton, who is visiting Galvanize, a technology and co-working site in Denver, on Tuesday, wants to partner with the private sector to train 50,000 new computer science teachers, either by bringing in new recruits to the teaching profession, or by giving existing educators additional training.
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