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News One
To provide computer science courses to underserved students, U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., introduced the Computer Science for All Act. The bill would authorize $250 million in new grants to advance computer science education for pre-K to 12th-graders. Lee underscored in a statement that an estimated 70 percent of the projected 1.4 million new tech jobs could go unfilled. "We have a responsibility to ensure that our students are prepared to out-compete and succeed in the jobs of today and tomorrow," she said.
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Times Higher Education
Studying computer science is a smart bet in today's world; the career opportunities for tech-savvy graduates are expanding every year. There's also an extensive choice of universities when it comes to deciding where to study computer science. Just over 100 schools feature in a new ranking for computer science by Times Higher Education this year.
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EdSource
Gov. Jerry Brown Jr. signed into law a bill that begins a three-year planning process to expand computer science education for all grades in California's public schools, beginning in kindergarten. Authored by Assemblymember Susan Bonilla, D-Concord, the bill, Assembly Bill 2329, requires State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson to create by September 2017 a 23-person advisory panel to be charged with developing a long-term plan to make computer science education a top priority in the state.
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Education Week
Twenty states now require that high school students be allowed to count a computer science course as a math or science credit toward graduation, according to a new report from the Education Commission of the States. That's up from 14 states from the organization's first report last year. The requirements vary from state to state. In Georgia and Utah, computer science can only count as a science credit. In nine other states, the course can only fulfill a math credit. It can fulfill either math or science in the remaining nine states.
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MindShift
Art Lopez's journey as a computer science teacher began five years ago when one of his high school students asked him a question: "Why do Torrey Pines and La Jolla — schools in more affluent parts of San Diego — have computer science classes and we don't?" Lopez recalled. Lopez teaches in San Diego at Sweetwater High School, where 85 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch programs.
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The Conversation
Shortage of science, technology, engineering and math professionals has been an important concern in the United States. It is estimated that over the next 10 years, the nation could face a shortage of one million STEM workers. Research shows that science achievement gaps begin very early. Between fourth and eighth grade, the number of children reporting positive attitudes about math and science drops from about 71 percent to about 48 percent.
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Code.org has selected Big Sky Code Academy as a partner to help train Montana teachers in computer science curriculum. Through the Professional Learning Partner Program, Big Sky Code Academy will expand professional development opportunities to educators through local district partnerships with Code.org. In addition, it will serve "as a regional hub of the global computer science education movement," according to a prepared statement.
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Easton Courier
Elementary and middle school students in Easton will be able to continue extracurricular computer science classes this fall. The Easton Board of Education gave CS Explorers the go-ahead to run the classes that would be overseen by Easton school administrators through Nov. 30. The program would provide six weeks of instruction.
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Good Call
Technology is changing the job market for college grads, redefining the requirements for good jobs. For example, a recent report reveals that finance and accounting majors lack big data analysis skills. Another report reveals gaps between the most popular majors and the most in-demand jobs — and the vast majority of those in-demand professions are STEM-related careers. It's probably no surprise that many of the most lucrative jobs in the U.S. and abroad are in information technology. But recent research by Burning Glass and Oracle Academy found that coding skills aren't just for IT grads.
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eSchool News
Schools seeking to build, strengthen or improve their STEM education programs now have a 14-point checklist to use as a guide, thanks to NSF-funded research from George Washington University, George Mason University and SRI International. The Opportunity Structures for Preparation and Inspiration research intends to examine "opportunity structures provided to students by Inclusive STEM-Focused High Schools," with particular focus on schools serving students from underrepresented groups.
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IT History Society
The IT History Society (www.ithistory.org), since 2007, is an international organization dedicated to teaching and preserving the history of the information technology industry, an industry that has changed the world in the shortest time ever. There are many organizations that have preserved IT history but the IT History Society is "table of contents" where information technology history is located. History of computing should be the first course in the teaching of computing so the students and teachers can better understand its present and the future. The IT History Society continues to update its many databases such as the IT Honor Roll of people that have made an out of the ordinary contribution to the industry, a growing listing of all IT companies both past and present, all IT hardware and software both past and present, a searchable historical database, technology quotations and more.
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