The American Statistical Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 ASA Data Visualization Poster Competition.
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Student Projects for the Greater Good—COVID-19 Edition
Columnist David Corliss shares his thoughts about Data for Good student projects in the year of COVID-19, including term papers, science fair entries, conference presentations and posters, and volunteer work for community organizations.
Does Anyone Still Use Colored Chalk?
ASA President Wendy Martinez is looking forward to sharing the resources being curated and developed by the K–6 Education Initiative Working Group and hopes they can help enrich the educational experiences of children and educators.
ASA Members Promote Statistics at Michigan Science and Engineering Fair
Several ASA chapter members judged statistics projects at the Michigan Science and Engineering Fair to promote the field and recognize those students who exhibited effective statistical analyses.
National Center for Education Statistics Faces Program Cuts
The National Center for Education Statistics is facing a staffing and budget crisis. Important programs may be cut unless Congress and the Department of Education intervene.
Game On! Celebrate Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month
April is Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, and the ASA is launching a game development challenge and virtual science fair to celebrate.
The Evolution of Variables and the Existence of Trans People
Jo Hardin and Jack Miller ask that academics and practitioners be aware and think about gender issues when defining and/or categorizing variables.
Meeting Within a Meeting and Beyond AP Statistics at JSM 2019
MWM and BAPS offer enriching experiences for K-12 statistics teachers at JSM 2019 in Denver, Colorado.
North Carolina Chapter News for January 2019
The North Carolina Chapter partnered with the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, SAS JMP, and RTI International to offer a one-day workshop for high-school statistics teachers on topics relevant to the AP Statistics curriculum.
2018 Causality in Statistics Education Prize Winners Announced
The American Statistical Association awarded the sixth Causality in Statistics Education Prize to Jonas Peters, Dominik Janzing, and Bernhard Schölkopf for their open-access textbook, Elements of Causal Inference: Foundations and Learning Algorithms.