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Girls Who Code Founder Awarded McGraw Education Prize

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The higher ed award honors Timothy Renick, Senior Vice President for Student Success and Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State University. We’re on track to achieve gender parity in entry-level computer science jobs by 2027. And the pre-K-12 award goes to Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code. And we have that.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

I first read an article by Seymour Papert in a Women’s Studies class in the mid 1990s – “ Epistemological Pluralism ,” which he co-wrote with Sherry Turkle. Despite all the investment and marketing surrounding CS and STEM education, the results – enrollments and graduation rates – have been mixed at best.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Children'

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The tech industry made a number of high profile donations and pledges this year, coinciding with the Trump administration’s announcement this fall that it would earmark $200 million in grants for computer science and STEM education. “ Robots will replace teachers by 2027.”