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Fast Company June 2013 Baratunde Thurston |
Kids Today, CEOs Tomorrow (Literally): The Case for Young Entrepreneurialism Since launching my own business last year, I've been thinking a lot about my first bout of teenage entrepreneurialism and how our education system should nurture this skill. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 David Schneider |
Simon Hauger Revs Up High Schools with Car Projects Simon Hauger helps inner-city high schoolers build cars and start businesses |
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 David Schneider |
Hands Off Hands-On DARPA shouldn't fund programs in primary or secondary schools, even if they help improve STEM education. A seemingly innocuous U.S. government grant to O'Reilly Media's Make magazine division, to help create 1000 high school "makerspaces" sparked a brouhaha. |
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Katharine Gammon |
Trash Is Treasure Steve and Kathy Stanton are repurposing all of it for Trash for Teaching, or T4T, an innovative program that reuses industrial cast-off materials to create discovery-based science learning experiences for students. |
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Nicole Kresge |
The Past, Present, and Future Earth What does the 4.6 billion year history of Earth tell us about our modern planet? About 150 Washington, D.C., area high school students and 15 teachers from around the United States learned the answers to these questions at the 2012 HHMI Holiday Lectures on Science. |
Chemistry World January 2, 2013 Bibiana Campos-Seijo |
My chemistry teacher A few colleagues mentioned the influence that having a good chemistry teacher in secondary school had played in their decision and we ended up recounting memorable chemistry lessons. |
CIO September 14, 2012 Gary Beach |
Time to Pay It Forward for Better Educated IT Workers The author knows American students lag behind other countries in STEM and thinks McKinsey's 'Closing the Talent Gap' report may be on to something. Is it time we incentivize our best students to forgo the private sector for jobs in public education? |
CIO June 8, 2012 Gary Beach |
How CIOs Can Help Build IT Talent for the Future Many in the US are concerned about the talent gap between American students and similarly-aged students overseas when it comes to math and science skills. CIOs can help by reaching out to guidance counselors and educating them about jobs in IT. |
IndustryWeek May 16, 2012 Jill Jusko |
Vermeer Invests in the Future with Teacher Internships CEO Mary Andringa says the experience gives teachers the opportunity to learn about manufacturing -- and share the experience with students. |
Fast Company June 2012 Anya Kamenetz |
Tech Giants and Public Schools Embrace Vo-Tech Tech giants are teaming up with public schools to give kids a path to science jobs. |
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