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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

In a crowded hotel lobby in New Orleans the day after Thanksgiving, primary and secondary students and playful adults threw paper planes towards a target for a prize of $50. It’s a prime event to draw attention to black talent in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

Edsurge

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to shift his research focus. And the coursework, I never felt I learned terribly much from any of my classes, but it was very much secondary.

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VHS Learning Celebrates Twenty-Year Partnerships with Schools and Educational Consortiums

eSchool News

Department of Education Technology Innovation Challenge Grant. Catholic Independent Schools, Everett, Massachusetts, joined the VHS Learning network of partners in 2001. VHS Learning offers more than 250 unique online courses including 24 AP® offerings, innovative STEM and humanities programs, and a wide variety of unique electives.

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Five Compelling Reasons For Teaching Spatial Reasoning To Young Children

MindShift

Spatial thinking is an important predictor of achievement in STEM careers. Research shows that spatial thinking is an important predictor of achievement in the STEM disciplines—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (Wai, Lubinski, & Benbow, 2009).

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How to Bring Back the Arts and Boost Academic Achievement Through STEAM Curriculum

Waterford

Did you know that music lessons can help students excel in STEM ? According to a survey college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math (i.e., STEM subjects), 92% took music lessons as a child compared to 34% of the general population.[11] Young Children, May 2001, 56(3), pp. Epstein, A.S. NEA Arts Staff.

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Isn’t it time to stop Wikipedia shaming?

NeverEndingSearch

Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia’s crowd-sourced authorship–its wikiness–has provoked debate relating to authority, despite the fact that many Wikipedia authors are topic experts and that a growing number of librarians and academics contribute by adding and editing references. Wikipedia think aloud observations.

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Electronic Village Online (EVO) has developed as a community of practice that in 2001 facilitated a program of online discussions and workshops that have been held every year since then each January-February. This event is brought to you by GlobalEd Events and TakingITGlobal.