The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 3, 2023
By 2026, the industry will need to add an estimated 24,000 airline pilots and by 2027 it might be short as many as 40,000 mechanics. The STEM skills that young people are learning are always going to be generally applicable to our emerging and growing economy,” he said. The market for drone pilots is expected to grow by 51.1
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Often, a lack of mathematical preparation and socal-emotional challenges prevent students from completing STEM majors, despite their declared interests in such fields. One resource to explore is the American Mathematical Society, which curates a list of STEM programs across many grade levels. But the problem begins long before college.
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EdNews Daily
AUGUST 29, 2016
The “Teach Boldly” teacher support initiative will include a series of virtual and community training events and the launch of the new PBS Teachers’ Lounge, a creative digital space where teachers can share ideas, learn from peers, find daily inspiration and access the tools and resources they need to enhance their work in the classroom.
Edsurge
APRIL 17, 2018
Most college classrooms had almost 40 percent of women in their CS classes. We’re on track to achieve gender parity in entry-level computer science jobs by 2027. Today they're less than 25 percent. In the 1980s, if you walked into any one of Atari's gaming camps, they pretty much would have been half boys, half girls. And we have that.
Edsurge
JULY 11, 2019
It’s a trend the nonprofit examines in a new report , “The State of Girls in K-12 Computer Science Classrooms,” that was released in conjunction with Wednesday’s gathering. A critical part of getting to gender parity in STEM fields, Saujani said, is having schools track and report the demographic data of their computer science classes.
Edsurge
MARCH 7, 2019
classrooms and written into state laws. One of the things that sets Girls Who Code apart is it believes in single-sex education, which has been found to give girls more opportunities to speak up in class and more confidence to pursue STEM subjects. The girls can learn and fail together, and support each other along the way.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 11, 2016
.” Microsoft acquired Minecraft in 2015 – which probably speaks volumes right there about its progressive potential – and in January of this year, Microsoft bought TeacherGaming, the maker of a Minecraft version aimed at classroom usage. “Everyone should learn to code.” “Everyone should learn to code.”
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