Should Computer Science be a mandatory part of a high school curriculum? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...

Schools expanded the availability of foundational computer science classes this year at a faster clip than at any other time in the past five years, but stubborn gaps in access to those courses ...

Hadi Partovi made his fortune as a cofounder of Tellme Networks, sold to Microsoft for some $800 million in 2007, and with smart investments in Dropbox, Facebook and Airbnb. For the past four years, ...

Wind River High School students Baylee Shoopman (left) and Josh Lacock work with arduinos in James Cunningham’s computer science class. An arduino is a small computer that has inputs and outputs.

Brian Dorn, assistant professor of computer science at UNO, said the 80 would double the number of K-12 teachers in the state who currently have the endorsement and are using it to teach information ...

More states are requiring students to take a foundational computer science class to graduate—employing a powerful policy lever to bridge long-standing gender, racial, and socioeconomic gaps in course ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- When most of us were in school, we took science classes like biology and chemistry, but computer science may be even more important for today's kids. Yet nearly 90% of ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. In her two years of high school at Dearborn Public Schools’ Virtual K-12 school, rising junior ...

The online retail giant on Thursday announced plans to fund computer science courses in more than 1,000 high schools across the US through its Future Engineer program. I'm PCMag's managing editor for ...

First-graders at Longmont’s Columbine Elementary recently got a taste of coding using “drag-and-drop” programs that allowed them to problem solve and use computational thinking. Some used the ...

More California K-12 students at all grade levels could have access to computer science classes if schools implement a plan unanimously approved by the State Board of Education Wednesday. The ...