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Dear STEM Leaders,

Please join NAPE and your colleagues at the National Summit for Educational Equity. We'll be in Alexandria, VA, on April 11-14, and you won't want to miss the great educational equity experience we have lined up for this year.  
Register now so you don't miss it!

Mimi
100Kin10 names NAPE as new partner

NAPE joins more than 280 groups working to train 100,000 excellent STEM teachers by 2021.
 Publications
To Parents, 'STEM Careers' Doesn't Mean Teaching; It Means Engineering 
Dian Schaffhauser, The Journal
While 9 in 10 parents say they would encourage their kids to pursue a career in STEM, what they really mean is a career in engineering. What they definitely don't want is a child who decides to pursue STEM teaching. Read More >>
A Rising Call to Promote STEM Education and Cut Liberal Arts Funding
Patricia Cohen, The New York Times Q
When it comes to dividing the pot of money devoted to higher education, at least 15 states offer some type of bonus or premium for certain high-demand degrees. Read More >>
Teaching Kids Philosophy Makes Them Smarter in Math and English
Jenny Anderson, Quartz 
Schools face relentless pressure to up their offerings in the STEM fields. Few are making the case for philosophy. Maybe they should. Read More >>
Barriers for Women Today May Be Less Visible, But Not Less Real
Tania Lombrozo, NPR
It's no secret that women are still underrepresented in science and engineering, and my own piece cited a statistic from 2015: that women make up fewer than 25 percent of physics majors today. So I was surprised by a theme that emerged in comments to the article, both on Facebook and on 13.7. Read More >>
Amazon Pays Women 99.9% What It Pays Men 
Elizabeth Weise, USA Today
When it comes to dividing the pot of money devoted to higher education, at least 15 states offer some type of bonus or premium for certain high-demand degrees. Read More >>
Why Tech Degrees Are Not Putting More Blacks and Hispanics Into Tech Jobs e
Q. Bui and C.C. Miller, The New York Times
Technology companies employ strikingly few black and Hispanic workers. They blame the recruitment pipeline, saying there aren't enough of them graduating with relevant degrees and applying for tech jobs. Yet the data show that there are many more black and Hispanic students majoring in computer science and engineering than work in tech jobs. Read More >>
5 Ways to Attract and Retain Female Technologists
Beth Stackpole, Computer World
Companies are stepping up to increase gender diversity in their tech workforce because it's smart business. Read More >>
Biggest Pay Gap in America: Computer Programmers
Max Taves, CNET
The tech industry's best jobs have a gender problem. Read More >>
Glassdoor Reveals New Insights on Gender Bias and Tech Jobs
Monica Nickelsburg, GeekWire
Glassdoor found that two-thirds of the gap between men and women's salaries could be "explained" by worker characteristics like education and experience. The remaining third could not be explained and was therefore attributed to either unobserved worker characteristics or some form of gender bias. Read More >>
The Only People Who Aren't Penalized for Promoting Diversity at Work Are White Men
Frida Garza, Quartz
If we're ever going to reach gender equality, it may have to be white men who lead the charge. New research shows that managers are actively penalized for promoting diversity in the workforce, regardless of gender or race-unless they are white men. Read More >>
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