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How efforts to combine arts with STEM education could improve tech diversity

Nettrice Gaskins, who directs the STEAM Lab at Boston's only art-focused high school, told attendees at an event at Harvard Law School that mixing art with technology could provide an opportunity for students of color that isn't always discussed.

Silicon Valley’s Diversity Myth

I rarely think the world has gone mad but, once in a while, I am certain of it. For sanity’s sake, I have no choice but to risk being burned on a third rail issue and tell you that broad accusations of institutional bias and sexism in Silicon Valley are way, way overblown. There, I said it.

With Knight Foundation support, PowerMoves program to launch in Miami

While black and Hispanic students earn nearly 20 percent of computer science degrees, they make up only 9 percent of the technology industry and less than 1 percent of technology company founders.

2016 Year in Preview: Holding companies make diversity their business

Holding companies have for a long time buried diversity numbers in thick annual corporate social responsibility reports. That’s about to change: In 2016 expect diversity to come front and center as an industry priority.