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Gallup
Gallup and Google just teamed up to conduct one of the most comprehensive studies of computer science education in schools. Interviewing nearly 16,000 seventh- to 12th-grade students, parents, teachers, principals and superintendents, this study provides us with yet another painful reminder of how our education system is out of touch with and slow to respond to opportunities for our kids' futures. Despite massive and growing demand to fill high-paying computer science jobs in all kinds of organizations and industries all over the world, a mere one in four principals in the U.S. report offering computer programming or coding in their school.
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NCWIT
The NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Educator Award (sponsored by AT&T) publicly celebrates high school educators who encourage girls' interest and participation in technology pursuits. Educator Award recipients form a national community of peers, share practices and empower other educators to encourage the participation of girls in computing.
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Calling all hackers, coders, and technical high school women and the educators who support them! Applications for the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Award for Aspirations in Computing and the NCWIT Educator Award are now open!
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The New York Times
To ensure that every child can learn the skills required to work in New York City's fast-growing technology sector, Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce that within 10 years all of the city's public schools will be required to offer computer science to all students. Meeting that goal will present major challenges, mostly in training enough teachers. There is no state teacher certification in computer science, and no pipeline of computer science teachers coming out of college. Fewer than 10 percent of city schools currently offer any form of computer science education, and only 1 percent of students receive it, according to estimates by the city's Department of Education.
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The Washington Post
Coding has become so popular recently that it's no wonder that cities are racing to introduce new coding initiatives as a way of establishing themselves as innovation leaders. New York City, for example, is leading the way with a new 10-year, $81 million program called "Computer Science For All" that will make access to a computer science education available in all of the city's public schools, from elementary school to high school. Not to be outdone, both Chicago and San Francisco are considering similar initiatives for students.
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Fortune
Microsoft plans to give $75 million to nonprofits that can spread computer science education throughout the world, CEO Satya Nadella said on Wednesday during Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. The investment is part of the company's YouthSpark initiative to promote computer science education it originally launched back in 2012. Microsoft will divvy out the money over a three-year period to select programs, including the company's Technology Education and Literacy in Schools program, in which technology workers partner up with high schools to teach computer science to their students.
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NPR
Back when Grant Hosford's older daughter was in first grade, she signed up for an extracurricular class, building robots with a programmable Lego toy called Mindstorms. Hosford, a dot-com entrepreneur, came to visit the class and was startled to see that Naomi, who loves science and math, was both the only girl there and the youngest by a couple of years. "My first reaction was not, 'Oh, I'm going to go build a coding company.' My first reaction was, 'What can I build for my daughter that will help her down this path?'"
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CBS News
Can America's economy and workforce keep up with the need for professionals who have computer science skills? The Department of Commerce says jobs in the so-called STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — have grown three times as fast as non-STEM employment over the past decade. And it says STEM workers are playing a key role in "the sustained growth and development of the U.S. economy." But recent reports say the U.S. isn't producing enough current and future employees with STEM skills, and that not enough high school students are taking the courses needed to fill those jobs. One of the essential disciplines that need strengthening at the high school level, experts say, is computer science.
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Education Week
After a degree in information systems, Grant Smith worked in Silicon Valley. Responding to a calling to teach, Grant became an Arizona Teaching Fellows, an alternative certification program sponsored by The New Teacher Project. His first assignment in a high poverty south Phoenix school was supposed to be teaching finance but just before school started the principal looked at his resume and asked him if he could teach coding. "There are not many people like me that have a degree in IS or computer science, have worked in Silicon Valley, and who change careers to become teachers," said Smith.
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Gigaom
Only three major cities in the country seem interested in advancing education so their students will have a better shot at co-mingling with their robot bosses. That will have to change as technical knowledge becomes more important to people in the workforce — and as cities around the United States try to become hubs for the startups attempting to produce new and innovative technologies. First, some backstory. A new education plan from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has been announced, and in addition to boosting graduation rates, it will require schools in the city to offer computer science courses within the decade. The courses won’t be mandatory, like they will be in San Francisco or Chicago, but students will at least have the option of signing up for the classes.
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