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Colleges now produce fewer Black graduates in math and engineering

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A junior who is studying bioengineering, Amida Koroma has been a fixture on the dean’s list at the University of Maryland. When we’re working on group projects, they’ll say things like, ‘You can do the typing,’ as opposed to getting into the nitty-gritty of how to build this robot,” she said. Credit: Amida Koroma. Purdue University.

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This Teacher Started a Hands-On PD Lab That’s Sparking Change Across the District

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In 2013, I was hired to teach computer science (CS) and video game design to students in grades K-5 at Monte Sano Elementary School in Huntsville, Ala. With this grant, we were able to purchase additional materials and create a lending library of STEM tools that all teachers in the district can check out and use in their classrooms.

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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

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Tahiv McGee, who graduated from North Star this spring and will attend Pomona College this fall, explains the research study he worked on at Rutgers-Newark. Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked with faculty and a doctoral student on a psychology research study.

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Why Pre-K Computer Programming Should Be More Hands and Less Screen

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Yet a growing number of educational institutions across the States are using iPads; a 2013 survey of K-12 students showed that 48 percent had used a tablet during class. The user writes commands for movement and drawing to produce line graphics either on screen or with a small robot—a turtle armed with a pen.

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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million (Seed) 2015 Sinovation Ventures Ready4 $8 million (A) 2016 TAL Education, Yongjin Group, ZhenFund Securly $3 million (Seed) 2013 Sinovation Ventures, ZhenFund Swing Education $7.8 The masochistic obsession with studying has deep roots. Sinovation also funds companies in other technology sectors including robotics and Big Data.)

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The ‘Maker’ Movement: Understanding What the Research Says

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Some fear the corporatization of Maker education, particularly as schools and policymakers have embraced the movement as a way to promote STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education and workforce preparation. Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom (Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager, 2013).

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P-Tech Schools: The Remaking of Career, Technical Education

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The program is designed specifically to provide STEM education, based on a partnership with a school district, a community college, and a business. Referring to P-TECH in his 2013 State of the Union address , Obama proclaimed: “We need to give every American student opportunities like this.”. The P-TECH Model. Craig Watkins.