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Empowering girls with STEM education to build tomorrow’s tech industry

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Key points: Inspiring young women in STEM programs requires cultivating a culture of community Black students need more STEM career exposure Launching a districtwide computer science program for all grades For more news on STEM education, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub All too often, female students are underrepresented in STEM classes.

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How to Choose the Best Educational Software for Your Classroom

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Technology has seeped its way into classrooms, streamlined academic standards, and transformed the pedagogical landscape to a large extent. Learning Management Software LMS is a centralized platform that manages educational content and helps learners complete courses, often with multimedia content.

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Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District and Discovery Education Launch New Partnership

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Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. . Discovery Education currently serves approximately 4.5 million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 140 countries and territories.

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Acceleration Is Better Than Focusing on Learning Loss. This Unique Summer School Shows Why.

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In the course of the summer school program, students travel back in time to the 1600’s, where they face down their math fears in an immersive math experience called “Fate and Fortune.” Focusing on mastery allows educators to stay oriented around what students can do, as opposed to what is missing, and encourages a growth mindset.

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Kids Don’t Always Believe in Climate Science. Are Schools Miseducating Them?

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And so of course I wondered, if they moved here, what would he learn about climate change? One of the threads is that kids are learning about it from the adults in their lives sort of passively, and teachers, of course, reflect the political spectrum of this country. His family was thinking about moving to the U.S.

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Making Is Great Because It’s Chaotic. But Not Everyone Is Looking for Chaos.

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That’s the first word that Anna Kwan, a K-5 STEM teacher at a public school in Aurora, Colo., Making Isn’t Just One Thing We heard from dozens of educators who echoed Kwan’s view over the course of a five month research project to illuminate the experiences and challenges of K-12 educators who incorporate making into their lessons.

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Can Individual Tests Really Measure Collaboration?

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At the end of next school year, thousands of high school students will sit down at individual workstations, laptops in hand, for an end-of-course exam. To infuse both real-world scenarios and academic standards into the new exams, as well as topics like leadership that college admissions reps would care about. Their goal?