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Computer Science is Growing in K-12 Schools, But Access Doesn’t Equal Participation

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Computer science has a wider footprint in schools than ever before, but there are differences when it comes to who has access to computer courses and who’s enrolling. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally. percent of students are enrolled in a computer science class.

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COVID-19 Hit Schools Unequally, But Data Shows Learning Recovery Is Equally Slow

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Source: Institute of Education Sciences. Data visualization by Nadia Tamez-Robledo. What Does the Data Say? Nationwide, 36 percent of students were behind their grade level before the pandemic. That shot up to 50 percent at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, when many districts were still giving remote instruction.

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5 Fun Science Experiments Kids Do at Home

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Here are five great ideas that are energizing and motivating: 5 Fun Science Experiments Kids Can Do at Home. So, here are some fun activities and easy DIY projects to get your kids excited about science. The science behind it: This demonstrates a principle called “osmosis.” Getting ready for extra time with kids? 1 Naked Egg.

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Building Effective Reading Instruction Through the Science of Reading

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The science of reading is a long-standing interdisciplinary body of knowledge that shows that to be proficient readers, kids need to be able to lift the words off the page—or decode—and then also need the language skills to understand them. It needs to be sequential and build on itself so that there is a progression of skills.

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Tech Teacher Appreciation Week May 6-10, 2024

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There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics. It’s a bit different than a classroom teacher. They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus.

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nuSTEM Newsletter 40 – UN Sustainability Goals: Gender Equality, Reduced Inequality, and Good Health and Wellbeing

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This week’s topic: UN Sustainability Goals – Gender Equality, Reduced Inequality, and Good Health and Wellbeing. UN Goal 5: Gender Equality. Science Kids is an online resource filled with educational activities and interactive games for anyone to enjoy! For a list of prior blog posts, see the blog index. ScienceKids.

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Science Has a Diversity Problem. For the Sake of Our Students, We Have to Change the Narrative.

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There's a common misconception that science is inherently neutral and objective, absolving it of any responsibility for racist beliefs and practices. Furthermore, within the vast scope of science history, men have continuously taken credit for women's intellectual work in science, a pervasive phenomenon known as the Matilda Effect.

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