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Ten leading education non-profits and U.S. technology firms announced the formation of US2020, an all-hands-on-deck initiative to place more STEM professionals as mentors for children K-16. Member companies will have 20% of their STEM employees engaged in at least 20 hours by 2020. Collectively, the funding members have pledged more than 2 Million in private funds to launch the organization.
President Obama sites the Ohio STEM Learning Network, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, GE, and MC2High School as an example of successful STEM Education Innovation Networks.
WASHINGTON - On Tuesday, April 9, the final Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a new set of voluntary, rigorous, and internationally benchmarked standards for K-12 science education, were released. Twenty six states and their broad-based teams worked together for two years with a 41-member writing team and partners to develop the standards which identify science and engineering practices and content that all K-12 students should master in order to be fully prepared for college, careers and citizenship. The NGSS were built upon a vision for science education established by the Framework for K-12 Science Education, published by the National Academies' National Research Council in 2011. The lead state partners include Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia.
Raytheon's MathMovesU program launched a new classroom grant opportunity for K-12 students and teachers today. Please share this information with those in your networks who may be interested. The "Build it Better" contest challenges teachers and their students to re-engineer an aspect of their school life -- from lunch lines to monkey bars to desk configuration -- describing how they would design it better, for a chance to win up to $2,000 for their classroom.
Battelle announce the hire of Margaret Ashida, former Director of the Empire State STEM Learning Network, as the first executive director of STEMx, the nationwide network of state STEM organizations.
Mark your calendars. The second (and final) public draft of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) will be released on Tuesday, January 8, at 3 p.m. Eastern. As with previous drafts, Achieve and NSTA encourage teachers to review the draft and provide feedback online to Achieve during the comment period, which ends January 29. To review the draft when it is released, go to www.nextgenscience.org.
Science classrooms in America will begin to change next year, when 26 states are expected to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards. How those students learn will often differ from the education their parents, or even their older siblings, had.
TIES supports the Center for Study of the Presidency & Congress as they release a A Letter On STEM Education to America's Parents', an effort to recognize the central role parents play in their child's education.
The National Research Council (NRC) released a report, "Monitoring Progress Toward Successful K-12 STEM Education." The report builds on previous work in this area, and establishes key indicators for measuring improvements to the K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education system.
