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Carnegie Learning Bets Big on Coding With Acquisition of Globaloria

Edsurge

In 2011, private equity firm Apollo Group purchased Carnegie Learning for $75 million, before selling it to back to private investors in 2015. Barry Malkin , a former Apollo executive who made the call to buy the company in 2011, took over as Carnegie’s CEO after its 2015 sale. million in equity and convertible note funding.

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Where Diversity, Inclusion and Education Meet: A Conversation With Black Girls Code Founder, Kimberly Bryant

Edsurge

One such effort is Black Girls Code , started in 2011 by Kimberly Bryant, an electrical engineer by training who has worked in biotech and pharmaceutical companies. Then I want to track how many of our girls are enrolling in a two or four-year institution majoring in a STEM field. (It Those are my key measuring blocks.

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Student Voice Matters

A Principal's Reflections

At the conclusion of the workshop, I immediately began to think about the potential of this computing device in my school. Image credit: [link] On Monday November 14, 2011, I took ten students from our STEM Academy on an amazing adventure to the Google offices in New York City. However, something was missing.

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College dreams often melt away in summer months. ‘Near-peer’ counseling is helping keep them alive.

The Hechinger Report

In addition to in-person coaching sessions, she fields text messages from students, gets on the phone with college officials to sort out financial aid snafus and even accompanies young people to their college campuses to visit financial aid and advisory offices and meet with staff. Photo: Sarah Gonser/The Hechinger Report.

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How A Stereotype Threat Intervention Can Help Students in STEM Fields

MindShift

Still, Velazquez recalls that when meeting with school instructors or lab mentors, he worried about his accent and stressed over what they might think of him, the rare Latino pursuing a biomedical career. They also discuss these topics when training older students to lead study sessions for STEM classes.

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Coding outside the lines: CoderDojos get kids psyched about programming by turning them loose

The Hechinger Report

The freedom to mess up, repeatedly, is a core appeal of this club known as CoderDojo , a loosely-connected global network of coding workshops for kids ages 6 to 18, including this Boston outpost that meets in the borrowed offices of the tech company LogMeIn. You can make your own design. They’re having fun and using their brains.

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Can Micro-credentials Create More Meaningful Professional Development For Teachers?

MindShift

In this model, teachers can no longer attend a workshop and receive credit for merely being there. I think part of the power is giving them a voice in diagnosing and meeting the needs of students,” she said. Last year Sayas tried to focus on tying together science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts through design.