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	<title>COMPUTING RESEARCH POLICY BLOG &#187; Computing Education</title>
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	<description>Advocacy and Policy Analysis for the Computing Research Community</description>
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		<title>STEM Education Initiatives Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was STEM education day for the Administration. In the morning at a White House Science Fair, President Obama announced he will seek $80 million in the FY13 budget of the Department of Education to help train 100,000 more STEM teachers along with policies to recruit, retain, and reward STEM teachers. The full announcement can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of the United States Report Released</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2012/01/competitiveness-and-innovative-capacity-of-the-united-states-report-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Commerce and National Economic Council today released a new report on &#8220;The Competitiveness and Innovation Capacity of the United States&#8221; at an event featuring Secretary of Commerce John Bryson followed by a panel of speakers and small group breakout sessions. The report was a Congressional mandate in the COMPETES reauthorization last year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join Computer Science Education Week!</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/11/join-computer-science-education-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As noted over at the CCC blog as well as in CRN, the third annual Computer Science Education Week is December 4 -10, 2011 and you can join with the more than 1800 people who have pledged to participate! CSEdWeek 2011 is a call to action to raise awareness about computer science education and computing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Science Education Act Introduced</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/09/computer-science-education-act-introduced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diversity in Computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the theme of computing taking over the Hill this week, Senator Robert Casey (D-PA) and Representative Jared Polis (D-CO) introduced the Computer Science Education Act (CSEA) yesterday. In the House, the bill is co-sponsored by Representative Bob Filner (D-CA), Representative James Langevin (D-RI), and Representative Silvestre Reyes (D-TX). The bill is designed to ensure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Innovation, a day in the House</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/06/american-innovation-a-day-in-the-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/06/american-innovation-a-day-in-the-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Cho</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[STEM]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/?p=1062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Editor&#8217;s note: We&#8217;re pleased to have Max Cho, CRA&#8217;s Tisdale Fellow, working at CRA World HQ this summer. Max is a student at Yale with a keen interest in the intersection of technology and policy and will be posting frequently on the blog!) This morning I attended the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Value of a Computer Science Education</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2010/11/on-the-value-of-a-computer-science-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computational thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computer science education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CS degrees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Chronicle of Higher Education has a great piece today describing the importance of an education that includes computational thinking, and lamenting the fact that more students aren&#8217;t becoming computer scientists. The whole piece is worth reading, but here&#8217;s a great snippet from the conclusion, which encapsulates much of the message groups like Computing in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is CS Education Running on Empty?</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2010/10/is-cs-education-running-on-empty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2010/10/is-cs-education-running-on-empty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACM and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) today released an exhaustive report on the state of CS education at the K-12 level and their conclusion is&#8230;well, it&#8217;s not good. The computing community used the occasion to announcing a new coalition, called Computing in the Core, targeted at addressing the problem. My colleague Erwin Gianchandani [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House Announces STEM Education Organization</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2010/09/824/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2010/09/824/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The White House announced today the creation of Change the Equation, a 501(c)3 organization born from last year’s Educate to Innovate initiative. Change the Equation is a response by 100 CEOs to the Administration’s call to action on STEM education. Change the Equation will take proven, privately-funded education programs and replicate them at 100 high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Science Education Act Introduced in House</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2010/07/computer-science-education-act-introduced-in-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2010/07/computer-science-education-act-introduced-in-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[HR 5929, the Computer Science Education Act, was introduced in Congress today by Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO). CRA, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Computer Science Teachers Association, the National Center for Women and Information Technology, the Anita Borg Institute, Microsoft, Google, Intel and SAS are all organizations that support this bill to address the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Robotics Week</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2010/04/710/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2010/04/710/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first annual National Robotics Week kicked off this past weekend and will run through April 18. The week will include a variety of local events across the country as well as a Congressional Robotics Caucus briefing on Capitol Hill this Thursday. The briefing will feature Dr. Robin Murphy, director of the Center for Robot-Assisted [...]]]></description>
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