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Government Technology
Reshma Saujani first saw the gender gap in computer science while visiting classrooms on the campaign trail in 2010 as the first female Indian-American candidate for Congress. "I had seen dozens of boys clamoring to be the next Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerburg and I thought to myself 'Where are the girls?' and this question, quite frankly, became quite an obsession because it just didn’t make sense," Saujani said.
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THE Journal
On Nov. 1, Microsoft will be releasing its newest Minecraft Hour of Code tutorial, which, according to a recent announcement, could be "possibly the most adventurous tutorial yet." The company has teamed up with Code.org for the release of "Voyage Aquatic," in which students "explore aquatic worlds and uncover hidden treasure" by writing code to instruct agents to execute commands. The lesson specifically covers two programming concepts: loops and conditional statements.
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The Hechinger Report
Mississippi graduated only 155 computer science majors in 2015, but the number who wanted to go into teaching was even lower. In 2016, not even one graduate was qualified to teach computer science, according to a new report on the state of computer science education in America. The report, released last month by Code.Org, also found that the state lacks a pipeline of students who are prepared to pursue computer science in college.
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The Advocate via Government Technology
Spirits were bubbling in Andrew Hermann's tenth-grade chemistry class at Isidore Newman School on Wednesday morning, as students wearing protective goggles shouted as they huddled over one of several in-classroom laboratories. As magnesium chloride began to react with metals placed in small test tubes, 15-year-old Brandon McGowan could barely contain himself.
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THE Journal
Harmony Public Schools, a charter network in Texas, will be dedicating a new five-year, $7.9 million grant to expand a STEM project-based learning model from middle and high school into its elementary schools. "Launching Elementary Academic Foundations to STEM" or "LEAF to STEM," as the initiative is named, will reach 7,000 students in 16 elementary schools. The funding was one of 18 grants announced recently by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation & Improvement.
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EdTech Magazine
As companies and market experts forecast computer science and engineering skills as crucial to the future workforce, K–12 schools have been rapidly developing STEM programs in order to prepare their students to be the employees of tomorrow. "[It's] imperative that schools lead the way, not just in offering stronger STEM programming, but in advocating for it with the community and championing it with students — especially at the K–12 level, where they are first exposed to it," Ryan Petersen writes for EdTech.
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THE Journal
The Digital Promise Research team worked with school districts in its League of Innovative Schools to create an online tool that suggests resources for helping address common challenges found in education. The "Challenge Map" covers 36 different challenges, including supporting English language learners, assessing 21st century skills and addressing social-emotional learning. Among the major themes for the Challenge Map are teaching with technology, helping prepare students for college and career, and addressing opportunity gaps.
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[Brilliant]
Research shows that active learning is much more effective than passively listening to a lecture. Brilliant uses the active learning approach by teaching through problems with logical steps, breaking them up into bite sized concepts, presenting clear thinking in each part, and then building back up to an interesting conclusion. Rote memorization is not learning - supercharge your lessons with Brilliant.
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Education DIVE
Personalized learning models continue to grow as educators nationwide are tasked with reinventing the way students are taught and tested. Meanwhile, the technological revolution keeps producing gadgets that make life easier by simplifying once-complex tasks, and this wave of innovation and invention has inevitably seeped into the educational bubble. Put those two things together, and you've got personalized learning technologies.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 USA Today's story on days in the life of 15 teachers has ignited serious debate. But it's not about teacher shortage or hardships, because we know these problems exist. It's about a profession in crisis and whether we can do anything to save them. Teachers are disheartened about being unheard, misunderstood and disrespected. Government mandates, assessment-based teaching, helicopter parenting, lack of resources and training all contribute to their plight.
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Harlem Patch
Technology giant Google has launched an initiative to provide free lessons on computer science skills in Harlem, a company spokesman said. Google has partnered with the Boys and Girls Club of Harlem to launch "Code Next Harlem," a space for free lessons in coding, 3-D printing and other skills in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, a Google spokesman said. The new initiative will be the first of its kind from the Mountain View-based company.
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