New research explores how access to technology helps put girls on par with boys. The Girl Scout Research Institute's tech report found that boys play games for fun, while girls use tech to learn. Still, boys remain more confident in their skills. Another takeaway showed that parents give sons more digital freedom.
Matific, a math resource for K-6, is designed to assist in closing the achievement gap in classrooms and schools across the U.S. Proven to help improve student test scores, Matific is worth trying out.
A growing number of educators are remodeling their classes by fusing game elements to their instructional environments. Does switching grades for experience points and homework for quests amount only to cosmetic surgery? Is school merely being “reskinned” with a new paint job without fundamentally altering the age-old classroom rituals?
Gov. Bill Lee is prioritizing STEM education in his legislative agenda with a $4 million investment in initiatives to boost opportunities for students across the state, including the creation of statewide K8 computer science standards. He would also create the STEM-focused Future Workforce Initiative.
Educators have tried to strengthen career pipelines by building “work cultures” in schools that expose students to new possibilities and on-the-job experiences. A 2018 study of children who grow up to file patents found that STEM programming by itself was not effective. Apart from being born into affluent families, the biggest influence on whether girls became inventors was whether they lived close to women who invent.
Gov. Tom Wolf announced $9.6 million in PAsmart advancing grants to enhance science and technology education in schools statewide. Combined with other PAsmart targeted grants, the administration has awarded nearly $20 million this year to bolster STEM and computer science in schools.
Of the 850,000 students who are ready for college by the end of 11th grade, one-third are from low-income households. A new report makes the case that there should be better pathways for these students to begin college coursework but still remain in high school, if they choose, and possibly save time and tuition money.
The Maryland district's $2.3 billion operating budget includes pay increases for teachers, cost of living allowances, benefits for employees and a 15-minute longer day.
The Ohio High School Athletic Association is down almost 800 officials for its junior high through high school varsity sanctioned sports compared to the 2017-18 school year. The cumulative impact of the shortage prompted the association to send a media release in January saying adult behavior needs to improve.
Gov. Tony Evers said he would seek to provide "more accountability and transparency" within the state's private school voucher programs but would not include a proposal to phase out taxpayer-funded school vouchers in his first state budget.
Pursuing any major in STEM is competitive, and gaining acceptance to a top college requires more than just high test scores and AP classes. In the eyes of most prestigious universities, summer research programs are not limited to the medical field but extend into the realm of coding, engineering design or software development.
The North Carolina House and Senate are running competing plans on the best way to fund school construction and capital needs. Both contain funds around the $2 billion mark, but legislators are debating over whether it is best to have a statewide bond proposal or draw from an existing fund.
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