Equity and Excellence: Mayor de Blasio Announces Reforms to Raise Achievement...
(Source: City of New York, NY) September 16, 2015 Raising the Bar: Get All 2nd Graders Reading at Grade Level, 2/3 of All Students Meeting Most Rigorous Standards for College-Readiness, Boost On-Time...
View ArticleNew York City’s mayor will require all of the city's public schools to teach...
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt New York in May. See Also New York City mayor Bill de Blasio will announce on Wednesday that the city's public schools will be required...
View ArticleThe folly of teaching computer science to high school kids
Well the good news is that the test scores of New York City public-school students are up this year from last. The bad news is that still barely a third of them passed math or reading tests. And that’s...
View ArticleReactions: Education Leaders, Innovators, Elected Officials and Parents...
(Source: City of New York, NY) September 16, 2015 Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said, "The Mayor has put forward a bold vision for New York City's schools that will allow all our children to succeed in...
View ArticleThoughts on our new feature, $lookup (MongoDB Inc)
(Source: MongoDB Inc) One MongoDB 3.2 feature we demoed at MongoDB World in June was $lookup. $lookup is an aggregation pipeline stage that lets you insert data from a different collection into your...
View ArticleAll New York City kids will learn to code (MongoDB Inc)
(Source: MongoDB Inc) September 17, 2015 This week Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that all New York City public schools will require computer science education. Over the next 10 years, New York schools...
View ArticleFact Sheet: President Obama Announces New Commitments from Investors,...
(Source: President of the United States) WASHINGTON, DC - Today, President Obama will host the first-ever White House Demo Day focused on inclusive entrepreneurship, welcoming startup founders from...
View ArticleCode Fellows Launches Programmer Training Courses in Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. & SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Code Fellows, a Seattle-based digital trade school, today announced that it is expanding its operations into Portland, one of the nation’s fastest growing...
View Article5 Reasons to Code in the Cloud
Last summer, a 23-year-old software engineer in New York made a now famous offer to a homeless man he passed regularly on the street: Give him a $100 bill or stop to visit the man every morning and...
View ArticleAOL, Cornell Tech and City Economic Development Officials Launch the...
(Source: AOL Inc) AOL, Cornell Tech and City Economic Development Officials Launch the Connected Experiences Laboratory in NYC Global Partnership Extends to the Technion in Israel NEW YORK - Today,...
View ArticleMayor Emanuel And CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett Announce Comprehensive K-12...
(Source: City of Chicago, IL) December 9, 2013 Five-Year Plan Calls for Creating a Pipeline for Computer Science in Elementary School and for every High School to Offer a Computer Science Pathway...
View ArticleMayor de Blasio Appoints Maria Torres-Springer as Next Economic Development...
(Source: City of New York, NY) June 29, 2015 First woman to lead EDC will focus on positioning NYC as capital of innovation, tech and advanced manufacturing, unlocking NYC's human capital to help...
View ArticleErik Westman named associate dean in College of Engineering; Bev Watford to...
(Source: Virginia Tech - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) BLACKSBURG, Va., Nov. 19, 2013 - Erik Westman, associate professor, Virginia Tech's Department of Mining and Minerals...
View ArticleGE to Host 'Girls Who Code' Summer Immersion Program (GE - General Electric...
(Source: GE - General Electric Company) GE to Host 'Girls Who Code' Summer Immersion Program · Collaboration to help close gender gap in technology sector · Equipping girls with skills to explore...
View ArticleCoding camps for kids could inspire careers
Connect With Us The Bottom Line Looking for a job? Come to Columbus. U.S. News & World Report magazine puts Columbus eighth in the country out of the top ten best cities to find ... Local Stories...
View ArticleCoding to Learn: the 21st Century Curriculum
Innovation, STEM education, 21st century learning. As educators, it's our job to embrace these concepts, not reject them. K-12 educators in particular need to incorporate 21st century concepts into...
View ArticleHow Will New York City's Tech Industry Fare Under Mayor de Blasio?
With the departure of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the city's tech industry loses its most powerful public persona. Replacing him is Bill de Blasio, the former city public advocate who...
View ArticleCan Big Data Boost the Paltry Number of Female and Minority Tech Workers?
By Nancy Cook Follow on Twitter June 18, 2014 Say you're a recruiter at a tech company in Silicon Valley, Boston, or New York, and you need to hire a new engineer quickly. You don't want to hire...
View ArticleTranscript: Mayor de Blasio Delivers Remarks at Groundbreaking For Cornell...
(Source: City of New York, NY) June 16, 2015 Mayor Bill de Blasio: Thank you so much, Dan. Thank you for your leadership. Everyone here has a lot to be proud of. But Dan, you really have been one of...
View ArticleYale launches expansion of the Department of Computer Science (Yale University)
(Source: Yale University) March 26, 2015 The university has announced important steps in a long-planned expansion of the Department of Computer Science, with enhancements in both faculty and classroom...
View ArticleLinkedin wants to make it easier to get a tech job in New York
See Also Software developers are in high demand — in fact, the average salary of a software engineer just Part of the reason developers are so valuable is that there are an abundance of tech jobs, but...
View ArticleMayor de Blasio Appoints New Members to NYCEDC Board of Directors (City of...
(Source: City of New York, NY) July 24, 2015 NEW YORK-The de Blasio administration today announced the appointment of ten new members to New York City Economic Development Corporation's Board of...
View ArticleMongoDB World 2015: Keeping Pace in a Data and Digital Boom (Datalex plc)
(Source: Datalex plc) A couple of weeks ago we attended the 'MongoDB World 2015' conference in New York. Our goal was to learn more about the latest version of MongoDB and see how it is being used by...
View ArticleCoding camps for kids rising in popularity
The video game Jacob Asofsky is creating is simple: “Someone who is trying to take over the world and you try to stop them.” The 12-year-old from Florida recently spent two weeks at a summer camp in a...
View ArticleTraining Disadvantaged Kids for Hotshot IT Jobs
This is the fourth piece in a weeklong series that examines programs around the country that try to tackle the unemployment crisis and keep Americans connected to the workforce. Imagine a technical...
View ArticleDe Blasio enlists top private-sector tech names to help build 'talent pipeline'
Feb 16, 2015, 7:42pm EST Send this to a friend Thank you for sharing. Your email has been sent. Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Copy Me Add a...
View ArticleMayor de Blasio Announces Minerva Tantoco as City's First Ever Chief...
(Source: City of New York, NY) September 9, 2014 Minerva Tantoco to lead citywide effort to make New York City the most technology-friendly and innovation-driven city in the world NEW YORK-At the 10th...
View ArticleCounting Down to the Hour of Code>
Caption: Engineers from Intel and educators from Everest Education working with student teams in the Young Makers Challenge. By Hawkins Pham In early December, tens of millions of people around the...
View ArticleCoding camps for kids rise in popularity
ATLANTA -- The video game Jacob Asofsky is creating is simple: "Someone who is trying to take over the world and you try to stop them." The 12-year-old from Florida is spending two weeks at a summer...
View ArticleCan Intel Solve Tech's Diversity Problem?
Standing before a large crowd at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in January, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich laid out the company’s plan to change the future of technology. He debuted a 3-D printer...
View ArticleCity of New York Opens Doors To NYC's First Public Graduate Film School - The...
(Source: City of New York, NY) October 6, 2015 Mayor de Blasio welcomes inaugural class to first public graduate school of cinema in NYC Located at Steiner Studios at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Feirstein...
View ArticleGFT Partners with Code to Work to Bridge IT Skills Gap in Tech and Finance:...
(Source: GFT Technologies AG) New York, May 28, 2015 - GFT, a leading provider of business and technology consulting to the financial services community, today announced its partnership with Code to...
View ArticleWhere Are The Women In Tech? Coding Bootcamps
Only 29% of all employees across the most influential U.S. technology companies—Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Intel—are women. But that includes salespeople, service workers,...
View ArticleNYC’s Chief 'Nerd In City Hall' Wants Internet Access And Equality For All
Last September, Mayor Bill de Blasio named Minerva Tantoco as the New York City's first ever Chief Technology Officer. Tantoco, a veteran of the financial technology industry, is a developer, multiple...
View ArticleNew York City's Future Workforce Will Be Code Literate, Thanks To These...
New York City’s tech scene is taking off. The Mayor’s office names technology as one of the city’s fastest-growing...
View ArticleBe Our Guest: The city's schools system needs to prioritize Science,...
More often than not, the jobs of today and tomorrow require advanced knowledge in science and technology. In fact, by 2020, the U.S. economy will demand 123 million high-skilled workers with strong...
View ArticleGFT Partners with Code to Work to Bridge IT Skills Gap in Tech and Finance
Addresses universal shortage of diversified STEM hires in banking industry New York, NY (PRWEB) May 28, 2015 GFT, a leading provider of business and technology consulting to the financial services...
View ArticleDe Blasio Administration Escalates Efforts to Close Digital Divide and Drive...
(Source: City of New York, NY) April 9, 2015 Formation of Broadband Taskforce, a first-of-its-kind"Call for Innovations," and high-level appointments underscore Administration's commitment to creating...
View ArticleNew York City a leader in closing the tech gender gap
Advertisement Advertise here The city's tech sector has emerged as one of the fastest rising industries in the last decade, employing close to 300,000 people, but the number of women in the field...
View ArticleDe Blasio's 5 Quotes That Sum Up the Future of Tech in New York City
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio didn't mention net neutrality once during his first speech to the city's tech sector on Monday. Instead, he zeroed in on expanding free public Internet access and...
View ArticleIn Support of Mayor de Blasio's Launch of The Tech Talent Pipeline, First...
(Source: City of New York, NY) July 22, 2014 More than 75 organizations working on 21st Century workforce development gather at The New School for Social Research NEW YORK-Kicking off the inaugural...
View ArticleMongoDB on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management...
(Source: MongoDB Inc) This week Gartner released it's 2015 Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems. In this report MongoDB is recognized as a Leader, putting us in a coveted category...
View ArticleMayor Bill de Blasio Announces NYC Tech Talent Pipeline Industry Partners and...
(Source: City of New York, NY) February 12, 2015 Industry leaders including LinkedIn, Verizon, Microsoft, Google, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, AT&T, Facebook, Udacity, Kickstarter, AppNexus,...
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