Seventh grade students David Rodriquez, Shazy Rubio and Alfredo Garnica (from left) greet visitors by bowing and saying Namaste in a Hindi class at Central Junior High in Bedford on Friday, December ...

Spanish. French. German. Computer coding. Are they the same? This question is at the center of a debate in Florida, where legislators are currently considering a bill that would require high schools ...

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. Sen. Jeremy Ring, a former ...

Universities are no strangers to innovating with technology. EdTech wouldn’t exist if that weren’t true. But colleges were truly at the forefront when it came to the development of computer science.

Florida senators overwhelmingly approved a proposal Wednesday to allow high school students to count computer coding as a foreign language course, although questions linger about whether the two ...

TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) -- Computer coding could be the next option for students wanting to take a language class. A Senate committee Thursday approved a bill aimed at allowing high-school students ...

A Florida bill that would have allowed high school students to replace foreign language courses with computer coding classes was rejected in the state House after gaining strong favor in the state ...

The Louisiana Legislature signed off on a bill Monday that would allow students to substitute computer coding for a foreign language when being considered for TOPS eligibility. Senate Bill 191, ...

LANSING, MI — Instead of learning a foreign language, Michigan students could take computer coding classes to replace the high school graduation requirement, under a bill that passed the state House ...

Students at Penn are weighing in on whether computer languages should be able to satisfy the foreign language requirement. Credit: Ananya Chandra, , , Spanish, French, Mandarin — and Java? As the ...