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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. The third graders at A.J.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. A fourth-grader makes a puppet while his teammate works on writing a script at Mountain View Elementary School in Longmont, Colo. STEM gives me challenges to think about. It’s more engaging.”.

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An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM

The Hechinger Report

Related: Pathways to jobs of the future opening via summer STEM programs. North Star is part of the Uncommon Schools network, which has elementary, middle and high schools in Newark. Yet for years, students like McGee had limited exposure to the world of STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math.

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The path to a career could start in middle school

The Hechinger Report

The early teen years are also a stage when students are especially vulnerable to “identity foreclosure,” or the walling off of certain options, such as a STEM career, as not for them, Deutsch said. Career exploration capitalizes on this innate drive, encouraging students to try on possible future selves, she said.

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How can we raise future black women mathematicians? Start by asking them

The Hechinger Report

Studying the successes of black women mathematicians opens a window into how we can produce more black STEM grads. In 1940, just 2 percent of all black women earned college degrees, and 60 percent of those women became teachers, mostly in public elementary and high schools,” Shetterly writes. And the country suffers for it. “In

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‘We’re stronger than we’ve ever been’: A Mississippi district shows that integrated schools pay off

The Hechinger Report

“Folks here have always been willing to step up for education,” said Morgigno who has served as superintendent since 2010. Part of that buy-in stems from parents’ approval of the way kids are assigned to schools in this largely working-class central Mississippi town. Folks here have always been willing to step up for education.”.

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Discovery Museum Celebrates 30 Years of Delivering Hands-On Science in Elementary School Classrooms

eSchool News

Acton, MA – Discovery Museum announced a 30-year milestone for its in-school STEM program, Traveling Science Workshops, having delivered hands-on science to more than half a million PreK through 8 th grade students from hundreds of communities throughout Massachusetts since the program began in 1992. About Discovery Museum.