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The Sentinel-Record
Garland County will be represented for the second cycle in a row of the nation's top teachers in mathematics and science for grades 7-12. Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts' computer science specialist Daniel Moix has been named a recipient of the 2015 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Moix was a member of the fourth graduating class at ASMSA.
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EdSource
Expansion of a new Advanced Placement computer science course aimed at drawing young women and minorities into high-tech fields is being hampered by a nationwide shortage of teachers qualified to teach it. Only a fifth of California high schools, about 260, will be offering the course in the 2016-2017 school year, according to officials with The College Board, a nonprofit that develops and administers standardized tests and curricula to promote college-readiness. The new course — AP Computer Science Principles — is being offered for the first time this month after seven years as a pilot program in 45 schools across the country, including seven in California. It is a cornerstone of the Obama administration's Computer Science for All initiative, or CS for All, with a goal of offering the new course in as many high schools as possible, starting in the current school year.
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Wisconsin Radio Network
While many Wisconsin schools currently offer computer science classes, there are currently no established statewide standards for what those courses should focus on. Given the increased role of computers in the modern economy, the state Department of Public Instruction is looking into whether that needs to change.
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New Times Broward-Palm Beach
We've stepped into a brave new world in which cars drive themselves, Pokémon are real, and you can order everything from a Pub Sub to a helicopter on your phone. As we venture further into the future, human progress — and our kids' ability to move out of the house and get a job — will increasingly depend on how well our schools teach students to understand computer science. The future is bright for Florida's tech geeks. There are more than 22,000 open computing jobs in the state, and they pay an average of $77,468 annually. That's nearly double the state's $42,860 average salary. But Florida still hasn't figured out how to train enough students to fill those high-paying jobs. Only 2,114 computer science students graduated in the entire state in 2014.
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The Associated Press via Billings Gazette
Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte accused Gov. Steve Bullock of misusing a Montana-owned airplane and said, if elected, he would sell it and spend the savings to expand computer science in high schools. Gianforte, speaking during a news conference in Helena, said his Democratic opponent has used the plane to attend campaign events, a 2014 Paul McCartney concert and for short trips that could easily be made by car.
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The Dispatch
In the computer lab at Stokes-Beard Elementary School, fourth graders sat in pairs with their heads bent toward computer screens. Murmurs traveled throughout the lab as one student in each pair gave the other directions on how to win the game they were playing. "Three south," fourth grader Tyra Lowery said to her partner Muhammad Kazmi. "Not two because the other time we (crashed)." Kazmi placed a line of computer coding in the correct order on the screen, following Lowery's instructions. A character from the popular game Angry Birds jumped "south" three spaces on the screen, landing on a pig. A message appeared on the screen telling the students they had completed the level. The students aren't just playing games though. They're learning about computer coding as part of the Computer Science for Mississippi initiative, a pilot program the Mississippi Department of Education has placed in elementary and high school classrooms throughout the state.
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Chicago Business Journal
In an era when tech companies bemoan the lack of qualified female and minority job candidates, one university is bucking the trend with an incoming class of computer science majors that is nearly half women. The percentage of freshmen who plan to pursue a computer science degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and are female has almost doubled in a year, from 24 percent in 2015 to 46 percent this fall.
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The Seattle Times
When David Molina retired from the U.S. Army in 2013, he wanted to use federal education benefits offered through the GI Bill to attend a software-coding school. No luck. Though the GI Bill applies to public universities and some for-profit colleges, he couldn't get approval to use funds for intensive coding schools, often called boot camps. Molina, a Portland resident, started a petition to get different coding schools across the region approved for the GI Bill, which, in many cases, pays the full tuition along with a monthly stipend to the vet.
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