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 ...

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 ...

High school students would be required to take a computer science class to graduate, under a bill that passed a North Carolina House committee Thursday. Some state lawmakers think every middle and ...

In spite of statewide initiatives to increase access to and participation in computer science classes, California lags behind the national average of 60% and trails about three dozen other states in ...

A student takes a class on Raspberry Pi, a credit card-sized single-board computer developed to promote the teaching of basic computer science in schools. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recently ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...