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EdSurge
Computer Science Education Week is once again on the horizon, taking place this year on Dec. 3-10. Many students and teachers will sign up for the Hour of Code, a global movement that invites pupils and educators to try programming exercises — many for the first time. But what happens after those 60 minutes are over? All the excitement around computer science education will come to naught if teachers are ill-prepared to take the next step, and know how to channel the excitement into teachable moments.
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The Conversation
The gender gap in math and science isn't going away. Women remain less likely to enroll in math-heavy fields of study and pursue math-heavy careers. This pattern persists despite major studies finding no meaningful differences in mathematics performance among girls and boys. Among U.S. students who score the same on math achievement tests, girls are less confident in their math ability than boys are. That confidence predicts who goes on to major in math-heavy fields like engineering and computer science. The gender gap varies across STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math.
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Apple Newsroom
Apple unveiled new resources designed to bring coding education through the Everyone Can Code program to even more students around the world. Starting today, customers can register for thousands of free Hour of Code sessions, available at all Apple Store locations around the world from Dec. 1-14.
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Houston Public Media
Computer science is one of four areas where the Texas Education Agency has declared an official teacher shortage. "All of our area school districts on a regular basis are asking for computer science teachers. And not just secondary computer science teachers, they're asking for elementary and middle school," said Paige Evans, who works with the teachHOUSTON program at the University of Houston. For 10 years, Evans has coached students majoring in math and science to try out teaching in the classroom.
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The Boston Globe
When you're a parent in the 21st century, one of the anxieties you must grapple with involves coding: If your child can't craft line after line of elegant JavaScript by the time first grade rolls around, will she be doomed to forever toil as a barista? To address that concern, there are iPad apps, free Kahn Academy courses, summer camps and countless robotic toys that can be controlled by software that their owners write.
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PennLive
While the workforce fails to keep up with the demand for workers with STEM skills, American schools struggle to meet the need for STEM education. The root of both problems is the same: a dire shortage of teachers qualified to teach computer science. This is true at both the K-12 and college levels. According to the nonprofit Code.org, only 75 teachers graduated from universities equipped to teach the subject in 2016. Compare that to the number of graduating educators prepared in mathematics (12,528) and the sciences (11,917 across general science, biology, chemistry, physics, and earth science). For many current elementary, middle, and high school faculty members who want to teach computer science, getting certified is not a possibility.
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Eduation DIVE
Districts have greatly expanded students' access to AP courses in recent years — both by adding more course options and by encouraging a more diverse mix of students to enroll. In February, the College Board reported that more than 1 million students took almost 4 million AP exams in 2017, compared to less than 700,000 in 2007. In addition, more than 700,000 students scored at least a 3 on one or more exams, compared to about 420,000 students in 2007. And for AP Computer Science specifically, there were significant increases in girls, students of color and students in rural areas taking the course.
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The Meridian Star
David Spence has always had an interest in computer science. Which is why he's taking a class in computer coding at West Lauderdale High School. Spence and other students are enrolled in an advanced placement computer science pilot program called Computer Science for Mississippi Initiative, or CS4MS. This is the first year the program is being offered in the Lauderdale County School district. As part of the initiative, teachers use Code.org, an interactive program that features different lesson plans based on specific grade levels.
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