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T.H.E. Journal February 2009	Student Attitudes: Online Learning Students participating in a survey reveal their opinions about online learning courses.
T.H.E. Journal June 2009	Drill Down A new digital curriculum model allows teachers to choose their own instructional materials. The Speak Up 2008 survey gave students the power to handpick content for a new kind of online textbook.
InternetNews April 26, 2011	Google Puts $6 Million Into Open Source Summer Google pushes forward on its Summer of Code effort, helping over a thousand students and 175 open source projects.
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PC Magazine July 15, 2005 Molly K. McLaughlin	Microsoft Student 2006 Among the many features offered, this software allows students to access textbooks online, take tutorials on any subject, and get tips for starting book reports, essays, or school projects.
T.H.E. Journal October 19, 2009 David Nagel	Science Students Benefit from Teachers' Research Experience When high school and middle school science teachers engage in extracurricular research work, their students benefit.
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Robert Tjian	President's Letter: Ripple Effect HHMI is awarding a $22.5 million, 5-year grant to the National Math and Science Initiative to expand UTeach, an established training program aimed at preparing science and math majors to become teachers.
CRM February 2012 Leonard Klie	IVR Identifies At-Risk Students Vocantas IVR helps Avila University reach out to students in danger of transferring or dropping out.
T.H.E. Journal September 2, 2009 Ruth Reynard	5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best Face-to-face instruction is often assumed to be the proven method, while other methods have yet to prove themselves. This assumption is not only misleading, but it might also be helping to diminish potential opportunities of better learning for our students.
Science News January 27, 2007	Science Safari: Math and Science Education Repository The Applied Math and Science Education Repository serves up applied math and science resources in an easy-to-use format on the Web.
Information Today August 23, 2010	Cengage Learning Enhances CengageBrain.com The website, which allows students to purchase or rent textbooks, ebooks, or individual echapters and download study tools, features a more intuitive interface for students
Science News August 21, 2004	Aerodynamics for Beginners NASA's Glenn Research Center offers an extensive online tutorial on the basics of aerodynamics.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Cori Vanchieri	Jo Handelsman: Engage to Excel How to keep STEM students from jumping ship?
T.H.E. Journal April 2005	MathAmigo With the increased focus on math scores due to the No Child Left Behind Act, Valiant USA has released this K-8 standards-based math program for handhelds, including Palm OS devices, the AlphaSmart Dana and the Sony Clio.
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T.H.E. Journal March 17, 2010 Ruth Reynard	Real-Time Technology in Middle School Language Instruction Recently, I interviewed a German language middle school teacher and she shared with me her uses for Web 2.0 tools in foreign language instruction.
CIO January 1, 2006 Gary Beach	A Sensible Proposal America needs math and science teachers. You have knowledgeable employees getting ready to retire. See the connection? IBM does.
T.H.E. Journal March 17, 2010 David Nagel	Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations.
National Defense September 2010 Mark Russell	One Company's Approach to Solving the Nation's STEM Dilemma Raytheon understands how to analyze complex systems in a comprehensive manner. These analysis techniques can be applied to the education problem of producing enough technology and engineering graduates.
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National Defense August 2010 Cynthia D. Miller	Classroom Perspective: Teachers Speak Out About STEM Three science, technology, mathematics and engineering teachers in different education systems talk about their efforts to attract students to these fields.
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012	Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students.
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HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Cori Vanchieri.	Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College.
T.H.E. Journal December 2006 Corey Bazemore	The 'Power' of a Student Information System Neither distance nor war was any match for technology in one mother's effort to help turn around her son's sliding math performance.
T.H.E. Journal October 25, 2007 Ferdig & Boyer	Can Game Development Impact Academic Achievement? Having students develop games has shown tremendous promise for motivating students, building conceptual knowledge, and improving content knowledge acquisition.
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Jennifer Demski	Learning to Speak Math The presence of a bilingual educator is proving pivotal to the success of technology initiatives aimed at developing Spanish-speaking students' grasp of both the concepts and the language of mathematics.
National Defense March 2011 Cynthia D. Miller	National Science Foundation Supports STEM Education Of equal importance to the foundation is the support of science and engineering education, from pre-kindergarten through graduate school and beyond, with a variety of fellowships and programs specifically for teachers and students.
T.H.E. Journal February 17, 2010 Patricia Deubel	Web 2.0 in Instruction: Adding Spice to Math Education Mathematics lags behind other subjects in class-centered web 2.0 communities for children, and an even larger lag in informal, recreational communities.
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	Mind the Gap The newest Speak Up survey shows a disconnect between student and educator views on learning that must be addressed.
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T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser	Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers.
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Information Today March 14, 2011 Paula J. Hane	Cengage Learning Introduces New `MindTap' Personal Learning Experience MindTap is a new personalized program of digital products and services that engages students with interactivity while also offering students and instructors choice in content, platform, devices, and learning tools.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011	Louisa Stark: The Internet Age To engage children and teenagers in science, it helps to entertain. Louisa Stark, director of the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah, uses tools that students have already mastered, such as the internet.
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 Jennifer Demski	Facebook Training Wheels A secured social networking site allows schools to incorporate the technology into academics while preparing students for the perils of online communities.
T.H.E. Journal January 2009 Jennifer Demski	STEM Picks Up Speed The use of authentic scenarios to teach abstract concepts such as constant velocity is helping educators spark student interest in math and science.
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon	Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation.
CIO August 1, 2005 Gary Beach	Bricklayers or Architects? The inadequate math and science education of America's youth is a serious issue in the workplace and for the country's future economic strength.
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T.H.E. Journal August 27, 2009 Bridget McCrea	Breaking Through Reading Barriers After using a tech-based reading program with struggling readers and special education students, fourth-grade inclusion teacher Ashlee Ritzko witnessed a new phenomenon: Students that were reluctant or resistant readers were suddenly excited about reading the novels.
National Defense December 2010 Cynthia D. Miller	JETS Promotes Engineering, Math To U.S. High School Students Though science, technology, engineering and math education is receiving a lot of press today, there have been organizations dedicated to the advancement of the fields for many decades.
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CIO June 8, 2012 Gary Beach	How CIOs Can Help Build IT Talent for the Future Many in the US are concerned about the talent gap between American students and similarly-aged students overseas when it comes to math and science skills. CIOs can help by reaching out to guidance counselors and educating them about jobs in IT.
T.H.E. Journal May 14, 2009 Ruth Reynard	Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? The ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes still seems to have no clear answers.
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