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Incorporate Literacy Tools in K–12 STEM Subjects

EdTech Magazine

“We have secondary students who have third-grade reading levels,” says Sharo Dickerson, director of digital and learning resources at El Paso Independent School District in Texas.

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Pivot Interactives Named Best of STEM by Science Educators

eSchool News

MINNEAPOLIS, July 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Minneapolis, Minnesota Pivot Interactives, a phenomena-based, active learning tool for science teaching, has been honored with three Educators Pick Best of STEM awards, an EdTech program judged solely by science and STEM educators.

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Researchers looked at how early STEM stereotypes begin for kids. They found them every step of the way.

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Interestingly, the research revealed that stereotypes about who is interested in STEM are stronger than stereotypes about STEM ability.

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CPEP Day 2012 - Central High Team wins big at STEM Competition

Educational Technology Guy

CPEP (Connecticut Pre -Engineering Program) Day 2012 was held this past Saturday, May 19 th , at the XL Center in Hartford, CT. CPEP is an after school activity that provides students with the opportunity to explore STEM careers and topics and apply STEM knowledge and skills to hands on projects. CPEP STEM'

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Teen Genius Says “I Learned Nothing from Lecture”

The CoolCatTeacher

Gitanjali Rao talks about her learning journey on episode 556 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter She was named America’s Top Young Scientist of 2017 by the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, with a patent-pending device to detect lead in water faster than any other current techniques.

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PROOF POINTS: Tracing Black-white achievement gaps since the Brown decision

The Hechinger Report

We should care about this troubling shift because many researchers say that children learn best in integrated classrooms. Students are expected to have learned to read by age 9, which corresponds to third or fourth grade in elementary school. Between 2012 and 2023, 40 years of progress in math vanished.

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Attitudes About Homeschooling May Get Unexpected Boost From a Year of Remote Learning

Edsurge

STEM courses in higher education need labs, but that doesn’t mean labs are being used online. Home Is Where the Homeschooling Is Could greater public approval of homeschooling be an unexpected result of the pandemic’s forced experiment in remote online learning? And the pandemic year has taken a toll on U.S. percent to 11.1

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