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Everyone in this country should learn how to program a computer...because it teaches you how to think.

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Learn about a new "superpower" that isn't being taught in in 90% of US schools.
Starring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, Chris Bosh, Jack Dorsey, Tony Hsieh, Drew Houston, Gabe Newell, Ruchi Sanghvi, Elena Silenok, Vanessa Hurst, and Hadi Partovi. Directed by Lesley Chilcott.

• Bringing Computer Science classes to every K-12 school in the United States, especially in urban and rural neighborhoods.
• Demonstrating the successful use of online curriculum in public school classrooms
• Changing policies in all 50 states to categorize C.S. as part of the math/science "core" curriculum

Harnessing the collective power of the tech community to celebrate and grow C.S. education worldwide
To increase the representation of women and students of color in the field of Computer Science.

Computing in the Core (CinC) is a non-partisan advocacy coalition of associations, corporations, scientific societies, and other non-profits that strive to elevate computer science education to a core academic subject in K-12 education, giving young people the college- and career-readiness knowledge and skills necessary in a technology-focused society.

Despite the incredible diversity of the U.S. workforce, it is clear that most of today’s jobs depend on
some knowledge of, and skills to use, computing technologies. It is also clear that this trend is
growing as computing becomes embedded more deeply in everyday commerce and society. What is
unclear to many educators is what curriculum will support this growing trend. We hope the
following definitions will provide some assistance for educators, policy makers, and parents who
are trying to cope with this confusion and complexity.

In fact, only 14 states and the District of Columbia allow rigorous and engaging computer science courses to satisfy a math or science requirement for graduation from high school.

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Report: Public schools more segregated now than 40 years ago

States that have the most segregated public schools for blacks are New York, Illinois, and Michigan; among states with significant black enrollments, blacks are least likely to attend intensely segregated schools in Washington, Nebraska and Kansas.

The most extreme levels of black-white school dissimilarity exist in the Chicago, New York, Detroit, Boston, St. Louis and Pittsburgh metropolitan areas.

Why does it matter? Segregation in public schools has been linked to a number of problems that affect the achievement of minorities. Schools with a big majority of students who live in poverty have higher dropout rates, fewer experienced teachers and far less resources than schools with majorities of middle- and upper-class students. The studies note that expert teachers and advanced courses more common in predominantly white and/or wealthy schools help create educational advantages over minority segregated settings.

The nation’s largest metropolitan areas report severe school racial concentration. Half of the black students in the Chicago metro area, and one third of black students in New York, attend apartheid schools.

Latino students experience high levels of extreme segregation in the Los Angeles metro area, where roughly 30 percent attend a school in which whites make up 1 percent or less of the enrollment.

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Report: Public schools more segregated now than 40 years ago
Fifteen percent of black students and 14 percent of Latino students attend “apartheid schools” across the nation in which whites make up zero to 1 percent of the enrollment, the researchers found.

The Civil Rights Project at UCLA just released three reports — “E Pluribus . . . Separation: Deepening Double Segregation for More Students,”  plus two regional studies — that analyzed data from the National Center for Education Statistics and found that segregation is growing based on both race and poverty.

The Most and Least Bible-Minded Cities in America

Chattanooga, Tenn., ranks No. 1. Providence, Rhode Island ranks last
To conduct effective ministry, American Bible Society wants to know what U.S. cities embrace the best-selling book of all time.

recent survey by the American Bible Society(ABS) and Barna Group.

breakdown of the results

What Are America’s Most Bible-Minded Cities?

Google's peaceful Martin Luther King Jr. doodle

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The case against the Google Doodle

Google Doodle Honors Zora Neale Hurston, Black Cultural Giant

 Zora Neale Hurston

Celebrating Black History: 50 Cultural Giants

Washington Post published an opinion from Justin Moyer, who suggested that history's great names had become "marketing tools."

The Brain that Changes Itself Norman Doidge

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Chiara de Blasio Tells Her Story

Bloomberg's administration has closed a total of 164 schools and replaced them with 654 new ones. In total, roughly 1,100 schools are co-located inside 538 buildings; Charters make up 10 percent of them.

Sharing buildings has required some schools to give up classroom space, and to coordinate gym and lunch times. There has been friction in some communities between the charter and regular district schools.

The old Stevenson high school building in the Bronx is now home to nine different schools, with 3,500 children from pre-K through high school, the most in the school system. D.O.E. officials told council members that the average co-located building housed 2.5 schools.

The Department of Education is required by state law to notify communities in advance of any changes to a public school building and to hold hearings. In practice, council members said, there is little public input because the Panel for Educational policy, charged with approving any new schools or co-locations, is controlled by the mayor and has never voted down a proposal.

Council members have proposed three non-binding resolutions to curb the city's power to force schools to share space. One would require local Community Education Councils to approve any co-location before it could advance to the Panel for Educational Policy, effectively giving these councils veto power. Another would set a one-year moratorium on co-locations beginning next July. The third would require more community notification of any changes in the use of the school building.

The teachers union has proposed adding requirements for charter schools seeking free space in public school buildings. It wants them to publicly disclose financial data and all political donations, along with their student demographics, suspension rates and attrition rates for teachers and students.

How can we make everyone do it this way?' but 'How can we best serve everybody?'"