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Blackbird Announces First-ever Purpose-built Middle School Coding Education Platform

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Created to Address the “Middle School Gap” – Blackbird Teaches Real-world Computer Science Skills, Aligned to Educational Standards. Blackbird’s integrated LMS enables instructors to easily track student progress, review errors and make direct comments. Addresses the “Middle School Gap” in Computer Science education. ?

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Blackbird Announces First Ever Educational Version of JavaScript

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First Educational Version of a Programming Language Enables Middle School Code Education – Bridging the Middle School Gap. Blackbird’s integrated LMS enables instructors to easily track student progress, review code and make direct comments. Traditionally, code teaching systems use unmodified programming languages.

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Dual Enrollment Numbers Are Rising. Colleges Want Them to Keep Growing.

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When done correctly, experts say, dual enrollment can be a critical pathway from high school to college, especially as todays high school seniors are less prepared to move to higher education. Later, the teachers can meet with their instructors to discuss the lab. What do the community colleges need?

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SkillsUSA competitions give students hands-on experience with career skills

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A nonprofit organization for career and technical education (CTE), SkillsUSA serves more than 413,000 middle school, high school, and college students and instructors nationwide.

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5 reasons to use a one-stop-shop communications platform

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For example, one might develop a distribution list at the start of the new school year but would get a new student in January and forget to add the new parents to the distribution list. Our middle school integrated arts instructors faced a different set of challenges, namely due to the rotation of their classes throughout the school year.

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The Steam Foundation Teams Up with MakerBot to Expand Access to 3D Printing for Students

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The organization, which is also run by a team of students, offers free workshops that teach 3D printing, robotics, graphic design, and coding to students as well as programs to help bring 3D printing into schools. Prabu and Raikanti are currently juniors at Dougherty Valley High School in San Ramon, Calif.,

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Trends and challenges impacting CTE in 2024–and beyond

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High schools often hold career days to help students understand various career options, but waiting until high school is too late: Many students have already eliminated entire career paths from their minds by then. This is why a growing number of school systems are introducing students to career pathways at younger ages.