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	<title>COMPUTING RESEARCH POLICY BLOG &#187; Diversity in Computing</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>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2012/02/stem-education-initiatives-announced/</link>
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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>Richard Tapia Awarded Natl. Medal of Science</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/09/richard-tapia-awarded-natl-medal-of-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computing’s own Richard Tapia, University Professor and Maxfield-Oshman Professor in Engineering at Rice University, will receive the National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony this fall. The National Medal of Science is the highest government honor the United States bestows on scientists and engineers. Six other scientists will also [...]]]></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>
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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>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>House S&amp;T Committee Considers Cyber Security R&amp;D</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/09/house-st-committee-considers-cyber-security-rd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/09/house-st-committee-considers-cyber-security-rd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversity in Computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House Committee on Science and Technologys Research and Science Education Subcommittee marked up a bill designed to amend portions of Cyber Security R&#038;D Act of 2005 today. The aptly named Cybersecurity Research and Development Amendments Act of 2009 (PDF) touches on several things that CRA supports including: Requires the development of a cybersecurity R&#038;D [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Hill Briefings This Week</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/05/two-hill-briefings-this-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/05/two-hill-briefings-this-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two events this week on Capitol Hill that CRA will be involved in. First, there will be a Congressional STEM Education Caucus and Congressional Black Caucus briefing on CS education called Bringing Innovative Computing Curriculum across the Digital Divide that CRA is co-sponsoring with ACM, CSTA, NCWIT, SWE, IEEE-USA, and Microsoft. The briefing will cover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turing Award Recipient Announced</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/03/turing-award-recipient-announced/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/03/turing-award-recipient-announced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversity in Computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Liskov, a professor at MIT, has received the 2008 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for her work in the design of computer programming languages. Liskov is only the second woman to receive the Turing Award and she was the first woman to earn a computer science PhD. The A.M. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Magazine Editorial by Wen Jibao</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2008/11/science-magazine-editorial-by-wen-jibao/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2008/11/science-magazine-editorial-by-wen-jibao/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Competitiveness Initiative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science Magazine recently published an editorial by Wen Jibao, (sub. reqd.) Premier of Chinas State Council on Chinas science and technology initiatives. Weve been saying here for years that China is very serious about becoming a world leader in science and technology. The editorial states China is now engaged in a modernization drive unprecedented in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Title IX&#8217;s Growing Interest in Science</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2008/07/title-ixs-growing-interest-in-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2008/07/title-ixs-growing-interest-in-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DustinCho</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversity in Computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday, NYT science commentator John Tierney discussed how Congress has recently ramped up enforcement of Title IX among universities&#8217; science departments. Will a &#8220;quota system&#8221;&#8211;an idea Tierney floats in the third paragraph of his piece&#8211;be an outcome of Title IX enforcement? So far, the increased enforcement has only consisted of periodic compliance reviews, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dichotomy of Women in S&amp;T</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2008/06/dichotomy-of-women-in-st/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2008/06/dichotomy-of-women-in-st/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CRA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two articles this week on women in science and technology fields. The first Why Women Quit Technology Careers in ComputerWorld talks about a trend that we have been watching for awhile. The article notes a study that shows that despite a strong presence in the early stages of science and technology careers, 40 percent of [...]]]></description>
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