<ul class='diigo-linkroll'><li><p class='diigo-link'><a rel='nofollow' href='http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=28869'>Committee Examines a Systems Approach to Improving K-12 STEM Education | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference</a></p><p class='diigo-description'>(Washington, DC) - Today, the House Committee on Science and Technology's Research and Science Education Subcommittee held a hearing to examine how the public and private stakeholders in an urban K-12 system can work together to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education both inside and outside of the classroom. Specifically, the hearing focused on Chicago, and the exemplary collaborative efforts there involving the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.

Improvements in the nation's STEM education system are vital to maintaining and strengthening our economic competitiveness. Since many decisions in education happen at the local level, the Committee took a case-study look at how STEM partnerships and systemic initiatives are working in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the third-largest school district in America.</p><p class='diigo-tags'><a href='http://www.diigo.com/cloud/tylerjones483'>tags</a>: <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tylerjones483/cps'>cps</a>, <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tylerjones483/CPSTechintheNews'>CPSTechintheNews</a>, <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tylerjones483/STEM'>STEM</a></p></li><li><p class='diigo-link'><a rel='nofollow' href='http://www.chitowndailynews.org/blogs/The_City_Desk/CPS_Fail_Whale_Twitter_strategy,31047'>CPS' Fail Whale Twitter strategy | The City Desk | &lt; Chicago News, Events and Culture | Chi-Town Daily News |</a></p><p class='diigo-description'>With the announcement that it will be using social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to encourage students to embrace the back-to-school season, Chicago Public Schools are taking a big step in relating to kids in their own domain. The district has set up a Twitter account, CPSbacktoschool, and hopes celebrity and media partners will get the word out about the first day of school via Facebook.</p><p class='diigo-tags'><a href='http://www.diigo.com/cloud/tylerjones483'>tags</a>: <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tylerjones483/cps'>cps</a>, <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tylerjones483/CPSTechintheNews'>CPSTechintheNews</a>, <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tylerjones483/twitter'>twitter</a>, <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tylerjones483/facebook'>facebook</a></p></li></ul><br />Posted from <a href='http://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tylerjones483'>favorite links</a> are here.