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YouScience Releases Career Insights Report on Women, STEM, and the Talent Shortage

eSchool News

AMERICAN FORK, Utah, March 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — YouScience , a leader in aptitude-based assessments, personalized career guidance, and industry-recognized certifications that support college and career success, today announced the release of a new national report, Career Insights: Women, STEM, and the Talent Shortage.

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Celebrating Earth Day with Resources from Discovery Education 

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See over 200 resources designed to uncover students’ STEM skills to activate future solution seekers. In addition, Discovery Education’s users can integrate these resources directly into the real-time assessments through the platform’s Quiz feature and can integrate this content into presentations with the Studio feature.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

The Defense Department, in a separate study, calls for an initiative akin to the 1958 Eisenhower National Defense Act to support education in science, technology, education and math, or STEM. Professors blame the pandemic In the most recent Program for International Student Assessment tests in math, or PISA, U.S.

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How Role Models May Inspire Exploration of Computer Science Pathways

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The Bureau of Labor and Statistics projects that the market for computer science occupations will grow 13 percent between 2020 and 2030. This gap between interest and access is a missed opportunity for the nation’s economy as U.S. employers increasingly seek job candidates with skills or a background in computer science.

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OPINION: How schools can find common ground in an era of education wars

The Hechinger Report

At the same time, McKinsey & Company estimates that automation and artificial intelligence will displace between 400 and 800 million jobs globally by 2030. And traditional public schools are facing increased competition from charter schools and independent schools.

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The 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference starts today!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

with Steve Hargadon || Automata for STEM Workshop No 1 - EU project (follow up from overview of the project) with Joel Josephson - Project partner || Build Your Own Virtual Library Learning Commons: Session 1 of 3 with Anita Brooks Kirkland, Chair | Professor David V.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. The infrastructure just wasn’t ready. SchoolNet helped many of these districts—and benefitted as well.

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