Treat Computer Science As a Science: It's the Law

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @12:55AM from the gravity-now-officially-points-down dept.

theodp writes: Last week, President Obama signed into law H.R. 1020, the STEM Education Act of 2015, which expands the definition of STEM to include computer science for the purposes of carrying out education activities at the NSF, DOE, NASA, NOAA, NIST, and the EPA. The Bill was introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Rep. Elizabeth Etsy (D-CT). Smith's February press release linked to letters of support from tech billionaire-backed Code.org (whose leadership includes Microsoft President Brad Smith), and the Microsoft-backed STEM Education Coalition (whose leadership includes Microsoft Director of Education Policy Allyson Knox).

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Re:sTEM by Rei · 2015-10-13 01:43 · Score: 3, Funny

You're a idiot. STEM = Science, Technology (not computer science), Engineering and Math. That's what STEM stands for.

No, that's what STncsEM stands for.

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