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.
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.