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Colleges now produce fewer Black graduates in math and engineering

The Hechinger Report

When we’re working on group projects, they’ll say things like, ‘You can do the typing,’ as opposed to getting into the nitty-gritty of how to build this robot,” she said. More recent figures released in April by the Pew Research Center show that, in 2018, Black students earned 7 percent of STEM bachelor’s degrees.

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Let’s invest in black kids who pursue STEM the way we do black kids on the football field

The Hechinger Report

The report found that robots and other forms of automation will disproportionately impact black workers, who are more likely to hold jobs that are vulnerable to automation and to reside in geographic areas that are predicted to see a greater number of automation-related job losses. workforce in all industries since 2001.

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Dr. Marina Bers Named Chair of Tufts University’s Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development

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(Waltham, MA) October 24, 2018 — Dr. Marina Bers has been named the new department chair of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University. Although I have been a professor at Eliot Pearson since 2001, my own doctoral training is not as a developmentalist, but as a designer of technologies for children.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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What’s So Different About High Tech High Anyway?

MindShift

Photographs, a bridge to nowhere , self-portraits, full-size boats, weather balloons, robots — beautiful work is celebrated at the school and its constant presence reminds students of the high expectations their teachers set for them. KalleApplegatePalmer (@palmer_kalle) January 25, 2018. pic.twitter.com/WmnPaE5eg7.

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Hundreds of thousands of people could lose their legal status. One hopes to graduate with his college degree first

The Hechinger Report

In middle and high school, Jose enrolled in a technology magnet school and competed in robotics tournaments. Then in 2001, two huge earthquakes shook El Salvador, and then-President George W. Every administration, Republican and Democrat, has kept TPS going for Salvadorans since 2001. She found work cleaning offices and houses.

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. Flying cars are coming, and you’ll be able to get a nanodegree from Udacity in the subject by 2018.