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.
Data Science Education|April 29, 2024
One in every four job postings seeks candidates with the data skills that companies need — and those jobs pay better. Schools should refocus their efforts. According to a recent report from ExcelinEd and the Burning Glass Institute, nearly 1 in 4 U.S. job postings today ask for at least some data science skills. The report shows that this growing demand is leading to higher wages, with employers paying up to 14 percent more for candidates with certain data science skills.
Data Science Education|March 18, 2024
The US has only just begun to lay the foundation for data science education with surveys of the current education landscape and investigations into the implication of AI for our society. But our peers and competitors have already made data science, machine learning, and AI required components of their K-12 curricula; issued learning progressions and other national standards for the study of data science; leveraged public-private partnerships and established national grant programs to reach students in remote and underserved communities; and collaborated with industry leaders to write textbooks and fund research into the best ways to teach data science.
Environmental Innovation|March 4, 2024
MethaneSAT is now in space! The methane-detecting satellite will measure pollution from millions of small sources around the world. It’s the first satellite developed and funded by any environmental nonprofit organization, Environmental Defense Fund.
Environmental Innovation|March 4, 2024
The Environmental Defense Fund invites you to learn more about the MethaneSat, a groundbreaking satellite to speed up cuts in methane emissions worldwide and slow global warming — fast.
Early Childhood Development|February 14, 2024
In their 2024 State of the State addresses, U.S. Governors across the political spectrum underscored the crucial need for investments in child care and early learning, highlighting a growing awareness of the child care challenges facing families nationwide.
Early Childhood Development|January 9, 2024
ParentCorps empowers parents and educators to form genuine connections with young children and fosters positive transformations in homes and classrooms through professional development, a social-emotional curriculum, and a parenting program.
Early Childhood Development|January 7, 2024
Amidst surging speech delays, early childhood classrooms turn to the LENA system, a digital "talk pedometer," to identify at-risk children and target interventions effectively.