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Colleges now produce fewer Black graduates in math and engineering

The Hechinger Report

That’s a worrying trend for a profession in which Black people are already underrepresented. Black enrollment in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math — is among the issues that urgently demand attention, said Cato Laurencin, CEO of the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science.

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The Value of Listening in the Classroom: How to Teach Your Students Active Listening

Waterford

String Telephone Project : A listening activity with a STEM component! Language Arts Journal of Michigan, 2001, 17(2), pp. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, November 2008, 12(11), pp. Build these string telephones as a class and discuss how sounds travel. Ditching Our Distractions: The Importance of Active Listening. and Seitz, A.R.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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Looking deeper into long-term market trends, we pay close attention to which segments are demonstrating consistent revenue growth, high gross margins, and competitive advantages — especially around return on investment (ROI) for customers and efficacy for students and schools. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.

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Campus Closures. What’s Tech Got to Do With It?

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Closures As the graph below shows, college closures aren’t a brand new trend. According to the US Education Department IPEDS surveys, the largest number of public and non-profit private campuses was 3,393, in 2001. The largest number of for-profit campuses was 1,451, in 2013. So tech is not preventing institutional closures.

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Racial diversity as a financial necessity at state universities

The Hechinger Report

If we don’t pay attention to demographic trends, many of our institutions are going to be left out in the cold for decades,” Alexander said. My teacher specifically made the class hard, and she told my mom, ‘He should definitely look into something in the STEM majors.’”.

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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. Newkirk believes that his model will work for other STEM fields, including chemistry and physics.

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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 ? STEM subjects), 92% took music lessons as a child compared to 34% of the general population.[11] One easy way to get the positive effects of art in your classroom is by switching from STEM to STEAM curriculum. Young Children, May 2001, 56(3), pp.

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