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Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future
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Defining Computational Thinking for Mathematics and Science Classrooms
David Weintrop,Elham Beheshti,Michael S. Horn,Kai Orton,Kemi Jona,L. Trouille,L. Trouille,Uri Wilensky +7 more
TL;DR: This paper proposes a definition of computational thinking for mathematics and science in the form of a taxonomy consisting of four main categories: data practices, modeling and simulation practices, computational problem solving practices, and systems thinking practices.
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Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education A Proposed Direction Forward Based on Psychological Science
TL;DR: This monograph proposes a definition of giftedness that is useful across all domains of endeavor and acknowledges several perspectives about giftedness on which there is a fairly broad scientific consensus, and suggests some directions for the field of gifted education.
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Pipeline persistence: Examining the association of educational experiences with earned degrees in STEM among U.S. students
Adam V. Maltese,Robert H. Tai +1 more
TL;DR: This article conducted a two-part analysis to assess the school-based factors related to students choosing to complete a major in STEM and found that the majority of students who concentrate in STEM make that choice during high school and that choice is related to a growing interest in mathematics and science rather than enrollment or achievement.
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Planning Early for Careers in Science
TL;DR: This article found that young adolescents who expected to have a career in science were more likely to graduate from college with a science degree, emphasizing the importance of early encouragement and emphasizing the need for early encouragement.
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Science Education in Three-Part Harmony: Balancing Conceptual, Epistemic, and Social Learning Goals
TL;DR: Two major reform efforts in K-12 science education have taken place during the past 50 years as discussed by the authors during the 1950-1970 curriculum reform efforts motivated by the launching of Sputnik and sponsored by the newly formed National Science Foundation (NSF) in United States and by the Nuffield Foundation in the United Kingdom.
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Computational Science: Ensuring America's Competitiveness
Daniel A. Reed,Ruzena Bajcsy,Manuel A. Fernandez,Jose-Marie Griffiths,Randall D. Mott,Jack Dongarra,Chris R. Johnson,Alan S. Inouye,William Miner,Martha K. Matzke,Terry L. Ponick +10 more
TL;DR: Universities and the Federal government's RD design, prototype, and evaluate new hardware that can deliver larger fractions of peak hardware performance on key applications; and focus on sensor- and data-intensive computational science applications in light of the explosive growth of data.
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Research and Development: Lessons Learned from Previous Research Could Benefit FreedomCAR Initiative
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