While unemployment remains low, underemployment is a severely underrated problem in today’s economy, and it’s contributing to the IT skills gap across the board, according to a new report from cloud compensation and benchmarking services provider PayScale.The report, The War on the American Worker: The Underemployed, surveyed 962,956 U.S. workers between March 26, 2014 and[…]
Students in Arkansas now can gain real-world skills in coding and computer science, thanks to a new partnership between the University of Central Arkansas and Metova. The university and mobile app development company today announced the opening of the Arkansas Coding Academy, which will “provide turnkey education and training opportunities to individuals seeking new careers[…]
If the goal is to hire an engineering workforce that reflects the population at large, then employers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields are failing. Consider that African-Americans comprised 3.6 percent of the engineering workforce in 2013, while Hispanics constituted 6.6 percent and women accounted for 14.8 percent, according to the National Science[…]
Talmesha Richards remembered being in third grade and thinking math was “the worst thing in the whole wide world.” She then went on to receive bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in cellular molecular medicine.”I hated math but then I had a teacher who took an interest in me,” says Richards,[…]
In an increasingly digitized world, cultivating a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) mindset is crucial to mint a new generation of makers who understand unmet global needs. One partnership is looking to do that by building bridges between U.S. and southern African kids to give STEM skills a boost.Using after-school programs or “clubs,” Design[…]
Apple went on a major shopping spree last year, acquiring a handful of startups from different fields — depth-sensing cameras, speech technology and more. But it doesn’t look like the company’s had enough. As Bloomberg reports, Apple has purchased LearnSprout, a firm with an education service which lets academic staff members analyze student data. While[…]
In an unusual partnership, General Electric and National Geographic Channel have jointly produced a six-part science and technology series whose episodes feature A-list directors, actors andnarrators. Source: Breakthroughs In Science Are Explored In GE, NatGeo Co-Production 10/30/2015
MacArthur High student Ahmed Mohamed has been suspended, his father is upset and some suspect Islamophobia. Source: Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’ | Dallas Morning News
Ms. Powell Jobs has ventured more into the public sphere since her husband, Apple’s Steve Jobs, died in 2011, and now she plans to finance an experiment in overhauling education. Source: Laurene Powell Jobs Commits $50 Million to Create New High Schools – The New York Times