One of the roles our education system is supposed to play is to prepare kids to be responsible citizens, with the skills needed to be successful in adulthood. All of the various classes ...

When we bring programming to math class, ... Chris Bartlo is a computer science and math teacher at Wilson High School in Portland, Oregon and 2016 Allen Distinguished Educator. This post is part of ...

Today, only 2% of students study computer programming. If we triple that to 6%, we'd close the gap between students and jobs, driving $500 billion in economic value to our country.

Male computer science majors still far outnumber female, but Professor Dan Garcia's class is a sign that efforts to attract more women to a field where they have always been vastly ...

Westlake Senior Evan Yu believes that everyone should have the chance to learn computer science, and it was with that value in mind that he launched an online coding class for elementary and ...

President Obama earlier this year announced a new initiative, “Computer Science for All,” to empower a generation of American students with the computing skills they need to thrive in a digital ...

In the long-run: parts of computer science (computational thinking and digital literacy) will be mandatory learning, starting in grades K-8. Computational thinking – which is the logic ...

Multiple CIS classes have recently embraced this approach, including CIS 1100: Introduction to Computer Programming (Python). CIS 1100 professor Harry Smith said that he had a number of concerns ...