Thanks again for joining us for today’s free live chat on schools making computer coding a powerful learning tool. We’ll be getting underway with Michelle in just about 10 minutes. In the meantime, ...

A student at Pacific Middle School in Des Moines, Wash., writes computer code as part of the international Hour of Code project. Credit: Ted S. Warren/AP/REX/Shutterstock Coding is for everyone. The ...

One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...

A pair of library science researchers are working to integrate inexpensive, child-friendly computer coding tools into school and public libraries. Crystle Martin, a post-doctoral student at the ...

Demand for programmers has surged since 2008. Programmers rarely have trouble finding a job, and college students are flocking to computer science as a safe route to employment. During a week of ...

With the current mania for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is much anguish about AI replacing jobs. Many university lecturers despair that the pinnacle of education, the ability of a ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. This spring, at ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

The “teach kids to code” movement has many thinking that computer science is just coding. Often the two are conflated since coding is definitely the most visible component of computer science. It is ...

In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a nationwide computer science immersion program sets up shop at a couple Virginia elementary schools. The NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs has the story.

Apart from companies in the technology sector, there are an increasing number of businesses relying on computer code. No wonder that eight of the top 25 jobs this year are tech positions, according to ...

A movement by parents and lawmakers to get computer coding classes to count toward foreign language credits in school hit a snag this month — but advocates aren't giving up. Subscribe to read this ...