The University of California at Davis (UC Davis) announced yesterday it has developed a full K-12 computer science curriculum that responds to the President’s “Computer Science For All” initiative. The curriculum was developed in collaboration with California teachers through the work of the Integrated Computing and STEM Education (C-STEM Center) at UC Davis. It is
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Last week, the FCC voted to reform the $1.5 billion per year phone subsidy program called Lifeline to provide a subsidy for the cost of broadband service to help low-income Americans get online. This may help students get on-line broadband service because families with students in the National School Lunch Program’s Free Lunch Program qualify
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Vince Bertram, President and CEO of Project Lead the Way (PLTW) announced PLTW is making changes to its partnership program for school year 2016-17 to embrace equity and increase flexibility so that more students at more schools will have access to PLTW curriculum. Beginning in school year 2016-17 schools have flexibility to offer custom programs
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The UC Davis Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education (C-STEM Center) is providing teachers with breakthrough tools for teaching math, coding and robotics. The C-STEM Center has been granted UC A-G Program Status. This means that schools can easily add C-STEM A-G approved courses to their own school’s “A-G” course lists without submitting a
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