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STEM and Urban Schools: Opportunities to Escape Poverty's Cycle
Tweet Share on Facebook December 19, 2011 Comment (3)Dr. Gloria Bonilla-Santiago is the founder of the LEAP University Academy Charter School in Camden, N.J. She is also a Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Here's a heads up to some of the most dangerous cities in America: Detroit, Memphis, Lubbock, Tallahassee.
Despite your problems--too many low income residents, too much crime--it is possible to help children in your communities break the cycle of poverty.
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Arkansas Congressman to Advocate STEM Immigration Reform
Tweet Share on Facebook December 15, 2011 Comment (4)This morning, Arkansas Republican Rep. Tim Griffin announced he will introduce a bill to make it easier for highly-skilled immigrants to stay in the country, according to U.S. News's Mallie Jane Kim.
The bill would presumably allow immigrants working in the United States on an H1-B Visa—often awarded to foreign engineers, mathematicians, and programmers—to stay longer, perhaps indefinitely. -
12 Scholarships for Hispanic Students Interested in STEM
Tweet Share on Facebook December 15, 2011 Comment (2)Like women, Hispanic people are severely underrepresented in STEM fields. Latinos make up 16 percent of America's population, but just 6.2 percent of the engineering workforce. Luckily, there are a host of organizations trying to close this gap by helping Hispanic students who are interested in STEM get through college. For a list of more organizations supporting Hispanics in STEM, check out U.S. News partner STEMConnector.
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Google Awards Grants to 16 STEM Organizations
Tweet Share on Facebook December 14, 2011 Comment (1)This morning Google announced it is donating $40 million to groups that support STEM education, girls' education, access to technology, and oppose human trafficking.
Sixteen STEM organizations will receive a total of $14.7 million, including the Tech Museum of Innovation, the D.C. Public Education Fund, Girl Scouts of Northern California, and the Computer History Museum. Google says the donations will support more than 3 million kids.
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9 College Scholarships for Women in STEM
Tweet Share on Facebook December 13, 2011 Comment (5)Though women make up just more than half of the population, only 13 percent of engineers are women. They're similarly underrepresented in other science, technology, engineering, and math professions, but there are several organizations encouraging young women to study STEM in college. These groups even offer scholarships for women studying for a STEM undergraduate degree.
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34 STEM Education Programs Awarded
Tweet Share on Facebook December 9, 2011 Comment (1)Thirty-four innovative STEM programs nationwide will get some help from big corporate backers as part of the Ashoka Changemakers Partnering for Excellence competition.
Organizations and companies such as Google, Exxon, and the Carnegie Corporation pledged hundreds of thousands of dollars to help scale up programs that focus on STEM, such as "Citizen Schools," which puts STEM professionals into high-needs classrooms to give students role models.
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U.S. Can Maintain Top Economic Spot With Innovation, Corporate Heads Say
Tweet Share on Facebook December 8, 2011 Comment (3)Big corporations think the United States can stay one step ahead of the rest of the world, especially China, in manufacturing and engineering--as long as it stays innovative.
"I'm not sure that [China] is doing such a better job than we do," Fred Guterl, executive editor of Scientific American, told a group of manufacturing executives at today's MAKE: An American Manufacturing Movement conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Council on Competitiveness, a consortium of CEOs dedicated to keeping America in the top manufacturing spot worldwide.
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Museums Key to STEM Success
Tweet Share on Facebook December 7, 2011 Comment (3)Ioannis (Yannis) N. Miaoulis is president and director of the Museum of Science, Boston and former dean of Tufts University School of Engineering.
When our political leaders (and candidates) express concern about the ability of the United States to innovate, I tell them that we must educate more engineers. Unfortunately, only 5 percent of college graduates in the United States major in engineering, compared with 12 percent of European students and 20 percent of those in Asia. The 2010 Science and Engineering Indicators report also notes that U.S elementary and secondary school students lag behind many nations on international math and science assessments.
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Passing Scores on State Science Exams Vary Wildly
Tweet Share on Facebook December 7, 2011 CommentEven if your child aced the state science exam, he or she might not be the next Einstein: That's because the standards on state science exams vary wildly, according to a new report by Change the Equation, a coalition of business leaders dedicated to improving STEM education.
The benchmark for achieving a "proficient" score on eighth grade science assessments in 16 states is below the "basic" level on the countrywide benchmarks set in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), according to the report. Two states, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, set even more stringent standards than the NAEP.
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Teens Discover Potentially Game-Changing Medical Breakthroughs
Tweet Share on Facebook December 6, 2011 Comment (6)Why leave the scientific breakthroughs to research professors? The teen winner of the 2011 Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology may have created a nanoparticle that could revolutionize cancer treatment.
The particle Angela Zhang, a senior at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, Calif., created can target cancer stem cells, which are notoriously difficult to kill.
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