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Building a representative STEM pipeline needs to start in kindergarten

eSchool News

These numbers are reflective of the broader STEM community and related career fields, including scientists and mathematicians. Women, for instance, make up only 28 percent of the STEM workforce, whereas Black, Hispanic, and Asian adults combined make up only 30 percent. The number of U.S. The number of U.S.

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Dear Liberal Arts Major: STEM Companies Need Your Skills to Grow

Edsurge

Her career journey, which led her to Coursera, a startup that develops online courses and educational programs, highlights a trend that has become more pronounced in the last few years. Liberal Arts Can Be the Key to Scaling In fact, at many STEM companies, employees with liberal arts backgrounds are now also considered keys to growth.

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Chinese Edtech Sees $1.86B in Q1 2019, Bucking Plummeting Venture Trend

Edsurge

secured a $15 million Series A round to further develop its STEM platform for preschool students. Source: JMDedu On the Rise: ‘Big Chinese Learning’ & Kids Coding One of the most significant factors contributing to the growth of deals in competency-based education is a new trend dubbed “Big Chinese learning (???).”

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

What is STEM? The acronym STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. More recently, arts were added to this educational model, as educators believed that art and creativity play an important role in the understanding of the former subjects in the STEM Curriculum , thus changing the acronym from STEM to STEAM.

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Grad programs have been a cash cow; now universities are starting to fret over graduate enrollment

The Hechinger Report

What we’re seeing now is a combination of a leveling off and a big question mark as to where this long-term trend will go,” said Brian McKenzie, director of research at the Council of Graduate Schools. Just over half say it was “definitely worth it,” a survey by the think tank Third Way found. Department of Education.

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PROOF POINTS: Professors say high school math doesn’t prepare most students for their college majors

The Hechinger Report

None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend to major in science or another STEM field. For example, most professors said they wanted students to understand functions, particularly linear and exponential functions, which are used to model trends, population changes or compound interest.

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A ‘magic’ school bus brings science class to schools in need

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Learning Undefeated offers four different kinds of STEM labs. Subscribe today! When science teacher Kathryn?Spivey

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