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READ NOW! Technology Counts 2008

Additional STEM news:

• Education Week: Nanotechnology Slips Into Schools
• Mass Insight Initiative and Senior Staffing
• Moodle, STEM, and 21st Century Skills
• MA Department of Workforce Development Job Vacancy Survey 
• 2008 Brown Center Report on American Education: The Misplaced Math Student - Lost in 8th Grade Algebra
• US Department of Energy's Real World Design Challenge (pdf) 
• Science and Math For The Future (from the Worcester Business Journal) 
• Schooling in the 21st Century (Op-Ed from the Worcester Business Journal)
• First 'hybrid' courses; now, a 'hybrid' school 
• SCIENCE LABS FOR 21st Century Students
• STEM Talent Pipeline 2008
  
• Engineering could really take root thanks to STEM
  
• 2008 Pipeline Grantees
• NSB Science and Engineering Indicators
  
• Global Advances Challenge U.S. Dominance in Science
• UMass-Dartmouth professor creates supercomputer out of Sony PlayStation 3 consoles
  
• Commonwealth Covenant Fund: "Section 35EE
  
• America COMPETES legislation approved by Congress, signed into law by President Bush
  
• Making Science Elementary : Raising the Standard for Teaching Elementary Science Education
  
• The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Research on Gender in Science and Engineering (GSE)
  
• Guidelines for the Preparation of Mathematics Teachers
  
• Future Career Path Of Gifted Youth Can Be Predicted By Age 13
  By SAT
  
• Universities Fail to Reward Science and Math Professors for Working With Schoolteachers
  
• National Science Board Proposes 'Action Plan' on Science Education
  
• Science and Engineering Workforce Project News Digest (SEWP) Digest - 1st Edition - America Competes: Responses to the "Gathering Storm" and More!
  
• Not By Geeks Alone
  
• Want to Be Good at Science? Math Is Key
  
• CRS Report for Congress - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Issues and Legislative Options
  
• Public wants more tech in classrooms
  
• Study: eBooks could spark interest in reading
  
• Wanted: More IT workers
  
• Challenges for Black Colleges' Brightest in the Lab
  
• Robots tackle core of STEM education
  
• Towards a Federal STEM Policy
  
• Robots tackle core of STEM education
  
• "Engineering Field has designs on women"
  
• High school math failing to make the college grade
  
• Scientists compile massive biology web site
  
• Report of the Academic Competitiveness Council
  
• Education to develop a technology to better help middle school students learn mathematics
  
• Sports, science a winning combination
  
• States: Ed tech is raising student achievement

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