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As 2017 comes to a close, CSTA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the Computer Science Today, a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 4.
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USA Today
From Sept. 28:
Ivanka Trump will be in Detroit, joining Quicken Loans Chairman Dan Gilbert to promote STEM education and a significant pledge from the private sector to boost computer science education. The White House announced her visit on the same day President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum that directs Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Secretary of Education, to steer $200 million in funding Congress has already approved to expand STEM and computer science education in U.S. schools. Ivanka Trump said too many of the nation's K-12 and postsecondary schools lack access to high-quality STEM education.
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Markets Insider
From Nov. 16:
Roughly two-thirds of the highest-paying and fastest-growing jobs in fields like design and marketing now demand computer science skills, according to a new report from labor market analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies and Oracle Academy. In roles across the job market — design, engineering and production, marketing, and data analysis — employers are requesting skills in coding and data analysis, according to the report, "Rebooting Jobs: How Computer Science Skills Spread in the Job Market."
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Wonder Workshop invites teams aged 6-8 and 9-12 to compete in the Wonder League Robotics Competition. Three rounds of missions require teams to design solutions to real-world science and technology challenges by programming Dash & Dot. Teams who become eligible for the Invitational Round compete for a $5,000 prize! Deadline: 12/31/17.
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CNBC
From Sept. 21:
Former president Barack Obama isn't just spending his post-presidency free time talking to Wall Street or hosting leadership summits. Recently, he hopped on a conference call with hundreds of young people across the country to talk about the importance of coding. Over 1,000 students, educators and advocates were on the line for a call organized by the Computer Science for All Consortium.
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Education Week
From July 27:
More girls than ever took an AP computer-science exam this year, Seattle nonprofit Code.org, calling the results "incredible." Code.org crunched the numbers from the AP College Board, which shows that 29,708 girls in the U.S. took an Advanced Placement computer science exam this year, more than double the number from 2016. Girls made up about 27 percent of the 111,262 students who took an AP computer-science exam in 2017.
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Tes
From Nov. 9:
Like playing sport or taking part in the school play, coding teaches skills from which all pupils can benefit.
Computing has become a big part of the core curriculum in recent years, and anyone from government officials to celebrities are touting the idea that everyone should learn to code. For something that seems so complex and niche, can this really be the case? When we think about what coding is, for many of us, the stock image of a computer screen filled edge to edge with text springs to mind. While that is not an entirely inaccurate depiction, coding is so much more. Coding is used to design: websites, video games and smartphone apps are created with coding, and increasingly, homes, cars and offices will be run using codes.
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MindShift
From Aug. 10:
U.S. high schools got a high-tech update this past school year. Not by federal fiat or by state law, but largely at the hand of independent nonprofits, including one founded by twin brothers less than five years ago. The College Board last fall introduced a new course and exam called AP Computer Science Principles. Eight years in the planning, it was the largest such course launch in history. While the existing AP Computer Science course focuses on the Java programming language, the new course is billed as a creative exploration of real-world problems. It's designed to appeal to people who might have assumed that computers were not for them.
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Washington Examiner
From Oct. 12:
Ivanka Trump is calling for computer science to be taught to students as early as kindergarten. Trump, who is President Trump's daughter and adviser, said the "pathway to well-paying jobs and rewarding careers" must begin "well before college or trade school," in an op-ed published by the New York Post. Trump points out that more than two-thirds of all technology jobs are now outside of the tech sector, in fields ranging from manufacturing to financial services and that "60 percent of K-12 schools" reported having not having any computer-science courses available to students.
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eSchool News
From Nov. 30:
An alarmingly large majority of U.S. teachers — 78 percent — say they feel they haven't received the training they need to teach with technology in the classroom, according to new research. The study from edtech and coding company SAM Labs, conducted online with independent research firm 72 Point, outlines the opportunities teachers see when it comes to technology in the classroom, as well as some of the biggest challenges the U.S. education system faces related to computer science and coding.
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EdSurge (commentary)
From Nov. 21:
Sheena Vaidyanathan, a contributor for EdSurge, writes: "During the summer, I taught a computer science course for educators at the Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College. Funded by Google's CS4HS grant, this was a four-day intensive 'crash course' for 60 teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within that group were science teachers who decided to spend their summer break learning how to incorporate computer science into their classes. This would not only engage their students in science topics, but more importantly, it would bring many of the Next Generation Science Standards practices to life."
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District Administration Magazine
From Aug. 3:
The economy is rapidly feeling the impact of advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, which allows computers to make decisions, recognize speech and perform other traditionally "human" tasks. Nearly half of all jobs in the U.S. in the next 10 to 20 years will be related to AI, according to a 2016 Obama administration report, "Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy." But the quality of computer science education varies widely across the country. Many states lack well-defined computer science standards; others don't count computer science courses toward core graduation requirements. And in many districts, computer science courses aren't reaching enough students, according to reports by the Association for Computing Machinery, a worldwide computing society.
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