Data Science Education|October 21, 2024
New op-ed in The Hechinger Report from outgoing President of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics - NCTM urges the need for data science and data literacy education in K-12.
Data Science Education|September 24, 2024
Year-long study of a data science pilot in the state of Utah identifies key features of four data science curricula, along with motivations, barriers, and supports for participating teachers and students.
Environmental Innovation|July 24, 2024
Environmental advocate and Mission Impact Lead for MethaneSat, Millie Chu Baird, details the heat-trapping side effects of a planet full of methane and explains why understanding where it comes from and taking steps to reduce it is the single most important thing we can do to affect climate change in our lifetimes.
Data Science Education|July 4, 2024
Data literacy is increasingly critical for many jobs in science, technology and beyond, and so far schools in 28 states offer some sort of data science course. But those classes vary widely in content and approach, in part because there’s little agreement around what exactly data science education should look like.
K-12 Education|July 1, 2024
Learn more about Imagine Worldwide and its latest progress in Malawi where the government formally committed to expanding the Imagine program to every primary school in the country. The countrywide implementation is expected to serve nearly 3.5M children annually at full scale by 2028.
Data Science Education|June 30, 2024
If you are an educator, researcher, content and/or tool developer, school leader or policymaker excited to share ideas, learn from colleagues, and jointly pave the way towards robust data science education and data literacy opportunities for K-12 learners, then this inaugural conference is for you. The theme for the 2025 DSE-K12 Conference is Addressing the Human Dimensions of Data.
Data Science Education|June 20, 2024
In its second year, the After the AP Data Science Challenge exploded in popularity, highlighting the desire from high school students to learn data science. In collaboration with Data Science 4 Everyone at The University of Chicago, CourseKata, and North Carolina State University Data Science Academy, Skew the Script — a nonprofit education initiative led by a consortium of AP Statistics educators — first organized this national competition for high school students following their AP examinations in 2023.
Early Childhood Development|June 20, 2024
TalkingPoints is using its AI-powered analysis of 40 million messages between parents and teachers in its app to help parents — especially those who are immigrants or are low-income — engage with schools and to increase attendance and students’ academic performance.
Environmental Innovation|June 18, 2024
Methane is a greenhouse gas over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. One of the biggest sources of methane: cow burps. But don't blame the cows! The methane is actually created by microbes in the cow gut. Innovative Genomics Institute researchers Ermias Kebreab and Matthias Hess at UC Davis and collaborators at UC Berkeley are working to develop new tools to block the microbes from creating methane in the first place, sparing the Earth — and the cow — from the effects of the gas.
Environmental Innovation|June 17, 2024
MethaneSAT successfully launched into space on March 4th, 2024. Since entering orbit, the team has been working steadily through the stages of commissioning and has even begun collecting initial data — an incredibly exciting milestone that brings us closer to a methane revolution.