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Welcome!
Here is this week's edtion of the STEM Ed Update. Enjoy!
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STEM Education Coalition featured in International Innovation
International Innovation magazine recently published an in-depth profile of the STEM Education Coalition, it's goals and recent accomplishments. The article on the Coalition begins on page 26.
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Top Article:
Obama Announces Public and Private Investments for High-Speed Internet in Schools
Washington Post
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Visiting an innovative Prince George's County middle school where each child has a tablet computer, President Obama spoke  Tuesday about his plan to give 20 million more students access to high-speed Internet connections at the nation's schools and libraries. Obama announced Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission will dedicate $2 billion and that several private companies - including Apple, Verizon, Sprint and Microsoft - have committed $750 million to help bring some of the technological opportunities provided at Buck Lodge Middle School in Adelphi, Md., to schools across the country.
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Latest STEM Education Policy News Across the U.S. |
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Math and Inquiry: The importance of Letting Students Stumble
MindShift
For subjects like math and foreign language, which are traditionally taught in a linear and highly structured context, using more open-ended inquiry-based models can be challenging. Teachers of these subjects may find it hard to break out of linear teaching style because the assumption is that students can't move to more complicated skills before mastering basic ones. But inquiry learning is based on the premise that, with a little bit of structure and guidance, teachers can support students to ask questions that lead them to learn those same important skills - in ways that are meaningful to them.
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To Spur Entrepreneurship, STEM Education in the Spotlight
Inc. 5000
Entrepreneurs often gripe that America is behind the times in its ability to train the technology workers and founders of tomorrow.Meet 16-year-old Joey Hudy (a.k.a. "Joey Marshmallow"). In 2012, when he was just 14, he created the marshmallow launcher that President Obama used to catapult a marshmallow across the East Room at a White House Science Fair...The problem is, the U.S. needs many, many more Joey Marshmallows to fill the expansive number of available positions at the nation's technology companies--and start the tech companies of tomorrow.
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Texas Officially Drops Algebra 2 Requirement for Graduation
Education Week
With a 14 to 1 vote, the Texas Board of Education officially dropped Algebra 2 as a graduation requirement for most high school students today, reports the Associated Press. The board gave preliminary approval for the change, which was meant to offer students more flexibility to focus on career and vocational training, in November.
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Report: STEM Job Market Much Larger than Previously Reported
US News & World Report
The demand for students trained in science, technology, engineering and math fields may be significantly larger than previous studies have estimated, according to new data from Burning Glass Technologies.
The new analysis of millions of job postings found there were 5.7 million openings in STEM fields in 2013, 4.4 million of which required at least a bachelor's degree and 2.3 million of which were entry-level jobs that call for less than two years of experience.
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$100 Million High School-Redesign Competition Nets 275 Applications
Education Week
At least 275 school districts and their partnering organizations applied for a piece of a new $100 million competition run by the Obama administration to redesign high schools, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday.
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We appreciate your continued support and involvement.
Sincerely,
The STEM Education Coalition
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February 11, 2014
National Science Board Breakfast Briefing: Science & Tech Enterprise
February 12 & 13, 2014
Summit to Reconnect Learning
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