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Cyber Champions Tour Washington
Vice President Joe Biden speaks to the 2014 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Champions from the University of Central Florida, in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office...
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Will The Next Generation Science Standards Be The Common Core For Science?
Photo Credit Thinkstock American students are falling behind students in other countries on international assessments of math and science. Statistics such as these are driving the call for education...
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STEM Education: The Campaign To Recruit STEM Educators
Photo Credit Thinkstock The number of jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is growing at a rate nearly double that of non-STEM jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects there...
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STEM Education & Why President Obama Has Made It An Educational Priority
Photo Credit Thinkstock Innovation drives the U.S. economy, and employees with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills have become a hot commodity in post-recession America. Between...
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Rockets and ‘Rithmetic: Engineers’ Tutoring Pays Off For Students
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon What do you get when you add pizza, probability, teenagers and engineers? Improved test scores, students say. Engineers at...
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Will Common Core Better Prepare Students For Careers In STEM Fields?
Photo Credit Thinkstock In the first year of his presidency, Barack Obama launched his “Educate to Innovate” campaign. The initiatives that came from this campaign are aimed at building a workforce...
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‘No Fake Math,’ Raytheon Math Heroes Make Numbers Real For Students
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon Math teachers wielding lollipops and PlayDoh props, configuring 60,000 pennies in a parking lot and channeling Beyonce’s...
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The ConnectED Initiative Aims To Bring All Schools Into The Digital Age
Photo Credit Thinkstock American schools increasingly depend on digital technologies to expand learning opportunities, to individualize instruction and to graduate students with the skills necessary...
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STEM Skills Are In Demand Across The Labor Market
Photo Credit Thinkstock In a first-of-its-kind study, the Brookings Institute analyzed millions of advertisements for job vacancies and compared the length of time jobs requiring science, technology,...
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STEM Education: Why Increasing Interest Among Minority Populations Is Crucial
Photo Credit Thinkstock Women make up nearly half the college-aged population in the United States, yet only a third of degrees and certificates awarded in science, technology, engineering and math...
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The Importance Of STEM In Higher Education
Photo Credit Thinkstock Nearly a decade ago, the alarm was raised. The “Rising above the Gathering Storm” report, commissioned by the U.S. Congress, warned that America will fall behind in the global...
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‘Race To The Top’ Grant Program Is Changing Education
Photo Credit Thinkstock In the five years since President Obama’s signature education reform, Race to the Top was launched, schools across the country have adopted new, rigorous education standards,...
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Vice President Biden Leads Initiative On Job-Training Programs
Photo Credit JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images More than three million job openings in the U.S. go unfilled for months, according to the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. The Jobs Council, a...
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Engineering A Love For Science In Kids
Photo Credit ThinkstockThis article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon Kevin Jarrett isn’t your typical computer teacher. His students build walls from clay, sand and water. They design parachutes...
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Engineer Urges Girls To Smash Stereotypes
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon The painted line on the playground made the boundaries clear: Girls on one side, boys on the other. Anybody who crossed got a...
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Top STEM High Schools In The Country & How They Are Making A Difference
Photo Credit Thinkstock This past August, New York Lt. Governor Robert Duffy, State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, and other dignitaries attended the ribbon cutting ceremony for a...
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How College Scorecard Can Help With College Selection Process
Photo Credit Thinkstock The average total cost of one year at a public four-year college is more than $18,000. The price tag more than doubles for students attending a private institution. A college...
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At The Frontiers Of Science
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon Raytheon is thinking big by thinking small. Working with the smallest building blocks of the universe, the company’s...
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Education Of A Hacker: One Woman’s Journey
Photo Credit Thinkstock This article is supplied and sponsored by Raytheon Her hands smeared with typewriter ribbon ink and smudged with carbon copy paper, her fingernails caked with white correction...
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What You Need To Know About The Pell Grant Program
Photo Credit Thinkstock The federal Pell Grant program is the nation’s largest needs-based college grant program. It provided more than $32 billion in financial aid to 9 million students for the...
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