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 ...

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.

Nearly 200 Milwaukee Public Schools teachers will be trained over the next three summers to teach computer science through a $1 million National Science Foundation grant secured by Marquette ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Innovation, science and technology were recurring themes during President Obama’s final State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was one of the invited guests of ...