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2015 Congressional App Challenge
The Congressional App Challenge is a competition aimed at encouraging U.S. high school students to learn how to code by creating their own applications. The Challenge is intended to highlight the value of computer science and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education and encourage students to engage in these fields. By encouraging and recognizing our nation's young programming talent, Congress hopes to shine a light on the growing importance of these skills.
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Are They Learning?
Children go through eleven years of grade school and then many go onto college and higher education. They spend their childhood and teenage years in an educational system that prepares them to be an independent adult and a productive member of society. However, many wonder how well our current education system is working.
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More STEM Activities, or Actual Communication?
Wayne Carley from
STEM Magazine explores talking to kids about STEM fields and having deeper conversations versus just giving them more tasks or generic STEM kits.
$1.5 million Goes to Engage Youth in Computational Inquiry in STEM
A new partnership between the UW, TAF and TAF Academy receives $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM+C program to bring together interdisciplinary, project based STEM learning.
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We need your help! The Coalition is now asking STEM stakeholders and interested organizations to join onto a sign-on letter that reinforces the need to include the Senate language supporting STEM education funding in the final bill. A more detailed analysis of the two bill and the key details of the Senate STEM funding provision is linked below. 
Any adult who has tried to help a second-grader with homework has noticed math is not what it used to be. Now schools are unlocking the secrets of
The 2015 scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are out, and the news isn't good for those who think standardized test scores tell us something significant about student achievement. NAEP is often called the nation's report card because it is the only measure of student achievement given periodically to a sampling of students around the nation.
