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Education World
Dec. 5, 2016, marked the seventh annual national Computer Science Education Week, a week intended to spark student interest in computer science fields while highlighting the careers computer science knowledge can help to obtain. By 2015, thanks to sweeping efforts like Hour of Code, Computer Science Education Week became the largest education campaign in history.
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U.S. News & World Report
John Foster Dulles, the U.S. secretary of state under President Dwight Eisenhower, is credited with observing that "The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year." The Department of Labor recently reported 5.5 million job openings in the United States. For many industries, finding workers with the skills needed to fill open jobs is a challenge. This challenge is especially difficult in industries driven by technological innovation, where highly trained engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians and others are in short supply.
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Seeker
"I like to code, it's just really fun and interesting," enthused Amaya, a seventh-grader at West Oakland Middle School in California. "In the future, computer science might help me with my career and give me multiple options for what I want to do for my job. I might want to be a software engineer... or a chemist!" Not many middle schoolers will tell you that they want to be a software engineer when they grow up, but Amaya has been taking computer science classes for a while now.
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eSchool News
High-quality instruction in STEM requires both teaching expertise and content knowledge. Yet, at the elementary school level, many teachers haven't had any specialized education or training in science, leaving them at a loss for PD in STEM. At the secondary level, studies show that about 33 percent of middle school math and science teachers and 30 percent of high school chemistry and physics teachers didn't major in these fields and haven't earned a certificate to teach them.
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Chalkbeat News York
As the city embarks on a massive push to expand computer science education, many Brooklyn schools lack laptops, adequate access to Wi-Fi, and computer science teachers, according to a new report by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. The report, which surveyed 136 Brooklyn schools, found that only about 20 percent of students have access to laptops at any given time, and only 30 percent of schools have an established computer science curriculum. These findings provide a glimpse at how difficult it will be for Mayor de Blasio to achieve his ambitious goal of offering computer science in every city school by 2025.
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Delaware State News
Rep. Debra Heffernan announced she plans to pre-file legislation that would require all state high schools to offer computer science courses. Rep. Heffernan, a Bellefonte Democrat, said she will introduce a bill mandating all public and charter high schools offer at least one computer science class by 2020. The class could be used to count for a math graduation credit, with the exception of algebra I and II or geometry. The proposal would require schools to allow a student to substitute a math credit for a computer science class beginning in 2018.
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The Olympian
Washington state schools got their first set of computer science standards. The adoption of the standards took place at Tumwater High School, with Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn, Gov. Jay Inslee and State Superintendent-elect Chris Reykdal in attendance. "It's crucial that today's and tomorrow’s students are not only consumers of computer science, but also makers," Dorn said in a prepared statement.
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eSchool News
Educators and STEM advocates are always searching for engaging ways to keep students interested in STEM — and a new graphic novel that uses computational thinking to teach students to code might be the next big thing It's no secret that STEM jobs, especially computer science, are growing more rapidly than the pool of qualified candidates to fill those jobs. But far too often, students lose interest in STEM at an early age, creating a stubborn pattern that many are hoping to break.
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THE Journal
The National Science Teachers Association has unveiled its inaugural list of "Best STEM Books K–12." The list — selected by volunteer educators and assembled in cooperation with the Children's Book Council — provides recommendations to teachers, librarians, parents and caregivers about the best trade books with STEM content for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
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