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Title: Building an Innovation Pathway to Data Careers
Three members of an NSF-funded CSforAll Research Practice Partnership will share their experiences and varied perspectives regarding the curricula and implementation strategies designed to build, foster, and support an Innovation Pathway to Data Careers through a partnership that includes high school and community college educators and industry and community partners. The team designed, developed, and tested high school curriculum introducing and highlighting data content in four courses: Civics+Data, Algebra II+Data, Visualization+Data, and Python+Data. This work was informed by prior NSF funding focused on developing data pathways at the community college level. The wide range of resources available to educators developing data pathways from multiple NSF projects are also included.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2031479
PAR ID:
10653990
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
ACM SIGITE
Date Published:
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
Data Science Career Pathways Data Literacy
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
El Paso, Texas
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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