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Pivot Interactives Named Best of STEM by Science Educators

eSchool News

MINNEAPOLIS, July 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Minneapolis, Minnesota Pivot Interactives, a phenomena-based, active learning tool for science teaching, has been honored with three Educators Pick Best of STEM awards, an EdTech program judged solely by science and STEM educators.

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K–12 Schools Work to Incorporate Computer Science into Curriculums

EdTech Magazine

To facilitate increased focus from educators, the International Society for Technology in Education updated its standards for computer science curricula in July of this year, the first time since 2012, EdScoop reports. MORE FROM EDTECH: Read how Microsoft is pairing K–12 classrooms with computer science experts! by Eli Zimmerman.

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College Major Myths

Digital Promise

STEM majors do have a smoother exit ramp from college to career, the paper finds. But, while STEM majors earn more than their peers in their early 20s, the advantage soon begins to fade. In fact, there’s a shortage of STEM skills. Look at the long term when you’re choosing what to study.

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Attitudes About Homeschooling May Get Unexpected Boost From a Year of Remote Learning

Edsurge

STEM courses in higher education need labs, but that doesn’t mean labs are being used online. For more evidence of increased pandemic appeal, the Census Bureau notes that while national homeschooling rates grew rapidly from 1999 to 2012, since then they’d held steady at about 3.3 And the pandemic year has taken a toll on U.S.

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How Math Education Can Catch Up to the 21st Century

Digital Promise

This pathway still serves science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) majors reasonably well. In fact, students who struggle early with the traditional singular STEM pathway are more likely to fall out of the higher education pipeline entirely. Lectures Aren’t Enough.

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Social Emotional Learning: Research & Applications for Distance Learning

MIND Research Institute

Many of the skills weaved in above are becoming increasingly important to employers, especially those hiring in the STEM fields. A meta-analysis of schools implementing comprehensive SEL programs (with the SAFE instructional framework) found an 11-percentile gain in academic performance (Durlak, et al., & Hariharan, (2012).

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Report: ‘Colleges Need to Better Inform Students of Tradeoffs Between Working and Learning’

Edsurge

Source: Carnevale and Smith, “Learning While Earning,” 2016; Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce analysis of data from US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2012–2015 (pooled data); Carnevale et al., Around 14 percent of higher-income students work in STEM fields or business, for example.

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