Independent Studies Show Student Achievement Jumps with New “Interactive...
K-8 Students Dive Deep into Science Learning with Pearson’s Innovative Curriculum Boston, MA, February 15, 2011 — Elementary … Continue reading →
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Husband-and-Wife Team Mark Guzdial and Barbara Ericson Honored with Association for Computing Machinery’s 2011 Karl V. Karlstrom … Continue reading →
View ArticlePearson Joins “Hour of Code” Campaign to Promote Computer Science Education
Unprecedented Initiative to Help 10 Million People Learn Coding during Computer Science Education Week BOSTON — December … Continue reading →
View ArticleIt’s time for every student to learn to code
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion around the importance of coding in the K-12 classroom. Should it be compulsory for all students? An elective? Reserved for those students considering a...
View ArticlePearson Announces Winners of Second Annual Student Coding Contest
Student-Created Apps Help Learners Share Knowledge with Their Peers, Improve Their Vocabulary, and Improve Efficiency for Educators New York, NY — April 14, 2015 — Computer science is a top-earning...
View ArticleStudents Create Apps to Help Improve Learning
“Seeing the fruits of your labor turn into something tangible is amazing. There is no limit to what you can do with coding,” said Chris Siegler, a member of the third-place winning team of Pearson’s...
View ArticleFemale Coding Contestants Discuss Their Experiences
The 2015 Pearson Student Coding Contest had three female semifinalists this year, Anisha Srivastava, Faye Li and Alberta Williams! And of those young women, Anisha Srivastava has moved on to become one...
View ArticleLearning Makes Us Webinar Series: Best Practices for MyProgrammingLab
Spend time with an experienced instructor who will take you through all that MyProgrammingLab has to offer and show you the value it can provide to your students. Learn some new best practices and tips...
View ArticleLearning Makes Us Webinar Series: REVEL: Teaching Programming in an Immersive...
This session is about teaching Java programming in an all-digital, immersive learning environment. How do you implement this “read a little/do a little” approach in your course and how does it impact...
View ArticleStudent Coding Contest: Winners Honored for Innovative Learning Apps
We announced the winners of our third annual Student Coding Contest! During the competition, college students and teams developed original innovative learning applications that integrate with Pearson...
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Are Bootcamps the Answer to the “Skills Standoff?”
U.S. employers are developing a global reputation for wanting the perfectly qualified candidate delivered on a silver platter — or they won’t hire. As Peter Capelli of Penn’s Wharton School astutely...
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How to Attract and Keep Students in STEM
Perhaps in the not-too-distant-future, parents and educators will be able to glimpse the future’s needs and effectively educate today’s students for future jobs. Until then, society’s most promising...
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What Challenges Exist for Women in STEM? Tell Us
Women account for 47 percent of the American workforce, but they’re woefully underrepresented in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields, even as their educational statistics in...
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DataFest UCLA: Wrestling with big data impacts students long term
ASA DataFestTM 2016 is set to be another great event for students studying statistics, mathematics, computer science, and humanities. There is so much excitement that some students are coming from up...
View ArticleTake a risk and follow your own path in life
Take a Risk and Follow Your Own Path in Life by Anisha Srivastava was originally published on Getting Smart. At the end of my sophomore year in the business program at the University of Texas at...
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ASA DataFest 2016 exceeded my expectations
Analyze, network, experience. This is what you can expect from DataFest. As a statistics major at UCLA, I greatly anticipated participating in this “big data” event because of the excitement former...
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Increasing student engagement in computer programming
Quick identification of strategies — both highly successful as well as the less successful — is fundamental to student engagement in programming. If teachers can quickly identify successful behaviors...
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Active learning moves programming students from novice to skilled
Today’s educators are faced with numerous challenges, particularly in courses where students have a broad range of prior knowledge and interests. Introductory courses from many departments are often...
View ArticleThe new wave of educational technology
The Children’s Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer, is one of the first books to examine the use of computers in the classroom. In it, author Seymour Papert writes, “Information...
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