Computer science is often misunderstood, says teacher Neil Plotnick, but by approaching it as a tool that is vital in many disciplines, both students and teachers can better appreciate its value.

All TEALS volunteers use UC Berkeley’s curriculum for Introduction to Computer Science for teaching the classes. Pridal-LoPiccolo, a software engineer in the Operating Systems Group, starts his ...

Girls Who Code wants to train 1 million girls to program by 2020--and it's well on its way. Our tech columnist spends a day with this amazing organization and shares how we can get involved.

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 ...

The seven largest school districts in the U.S. are joining more than 50 others to start offering introductory computer science to all their students, the White House said Monday.

In 2013, he and his brother Ali started Code.org, an organization focused on making computer science classes available in all of the country’s K-12 schools.

A Google engineer teaches an intro computer class at Baltimore HBCU Morgan State University to promote diversity in STEM and hiring future engineers of color.

In an upper-level seminar on artificial intelligence, Occidental College professor Justin Li started a discussion outside the realm of a typical computer science class.