You must have seen the warning a thousand times: Too few young people study scientific or technical subjects, businesses can’t find enough workers in those fields, and the country’s competitive edge is threatened. Article>>
Is the STEM Crisis a Myth?
Top 25 Companies for Software Engineers
Who would have thunk that Walmart offers better pay to software engineers than Microsoft, Expedia and Amazon.com. But that’s one of the findings in a new Glassdoor survey which looks at the top 25 highest paying companies for software engineers. Article>>
Boy Wonder: Jack Andraka
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive and deadly cancers, in part because often by the time it’s diagnosed the disease has spread to other parts of the body. So when news broke last year More »
3 Americans Win Joint Nobel Prize in Medicine
Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discovering the machinery that regulates how cells transport major molecules in a cargo system that delivers them to the right place at the right time. Article>>
Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?
Last summer, researchers at Yale published a study proving that physicists, chemists and biologists are likely to view a young male scientist more favorably than a woman with the same qualifications. Presented More »
High School Hacking Lessons To Create “Google-Ready” Students
Throw a rock in the tech world and you’ll find a “learn-to-code” advocate. But among actual computer science educators, Mike Zamansky at the elite Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, is one of the More »
Re-engineering Education to Employment With Internships
The topic of unemployment is often discussed and debated, but what about youth unemployment? According to the World Economic Forum, there are 1.2 billion youth in the world aged 15 to 24. They More »
A Nudge to Poorer Students to Aim High on Colleges
The group that administers the SAT has begun a nationwide outreach program to try to persuade more low-income high school seniors who scored high on standardized tests to apply to select colleges. Link>>