Remembering Sputnik as US aims to advance computer science education

Sixty years ago this week, the Soviet Union Microsoft Support Phone Number launched Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the Earth. The historic moment meant not Microsoft Support Phone Number only Support.Microsoft.Com/Help that the space race with the United States was on, but so were U.S. efforts to provide stronger math and science Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help  education to its young people, writes Brad Microsoft Customer Service Smith, Microsoft president, and Carol Ann Browne, Microsoft director of executive communications, in a new post in the “Today in Technology” series on LinkedIn.

Today, “Computer science is to our time what  Microsoft Customer Service physics was to the middle of the 20th century,” Smith and Browne write. “It is reshaping every Support.Microsoft.Com/Help part of society, and no nation can prosper without providing its students Microsoft Support Phone Number with an opportunity to learn to code Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help . This has Microsoft Support Phone Number sparked a new movement to bring computer science to schools, led by non-profit groups and companies across the tech sector.”

Decades later, leaders on both sides Microsoft Support Phone Number of the political aisle have taken steps to support better math Microsoft Customer Service and science Microsoft Support Phone Number education Support.Microsoft.Com/Help in the U.S. “As in the year following Sputnik, the biggest recent advances are attributable to two individuals from differing parts of  Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help the political spectrum,” Smith and Browne write.

The first was former President Barack Obama, who Microsoft Support Phone Number proposed federal funding to bring computer Microsoft Support Phone Number science into the nation’s schools. Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help  The second is Ivanka Trump, who as advisor to the president, consulted with non-profit Microsoft Customer Service and tech leaders and formulated a $1 billion, five-year plan to provide Support.Microsoft.Com/Help federal funding to advance computer science and other science and math subjects in the nation’s public schools.

“It’s easy to look at the events of 2017 and yearn Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help  for a Sputnik moment that can unite Microsoft Customer Service the nation,” they note. “But even in the absence of such an opportunity, it’s heartening to see leaders Microsoft Support Phone Number from both political Microsoft Support Phone Number parties recognize that, as in 1957, technology is on the move. The future of our children requires Support.Microsoft.Com/Help that education move forward with it.”

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