Center for Digital Education – Staff Writer
“President Obama signed the STEM Education Act of 2015 into law Thursday, Oct. 8. The bill strengthens efforts at the federal level to ensure that computer science skills are included among science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects. The bipartisan bill was introduced by Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-Conn. “We must prepare our students for degrees in STEM subjects to ensure that they have the ability to thrive in today’s technology-based economy,” Smith in a press release. “This means motivating more American students to study STEM subjects, including computer science.””(more)