Positioned to win the tech game? Bay State’s K-12 computer science ed varies widely

WESTFIELD — On a recent morning, students in Renee Sweeney’s engineering class at Westfield High School tinkered with their robots. They worked on writing code to tell the robots how to move. Soon, ...
Colorado Public Radio

Girls are cracking code and breaking stereotypes in this Denver high school’s AP computer science class

Van “Kendy” Nguyen, 16, didn’t know anything about computer science. Gradi Kabeya, 17, hadn’t done any coding before but said computer science seemed cool and useful. Hazel Ochoa, 16, had dabbled in ...
Education Week

3 Big Challenges to Expanding Computer Science Classes and How to Overcome Them

Big-name companies like Delta Airlines, UPS, and Starbucks are clamoring for expanding computer science education at the K-12 level. But according to a recent report from the nonprofit Code.org, just ...
The Jackson Sun

Crockett County High School wins grant for AP computer science classes

Computer science classes have been at Crockett County High School in Alamo, Tennessee, for about three years now, but Karen Cavaness, the lone certified computer science instructor, has been able to ...
The New York Times

At This School, Computer Science Class Now Includes Critiquing Chatbots

Move over, coding. Some schools are asking student programmers to think critically about rapid advances in artificial intelligence. Marisa Shuman challenged her students at the Young Women’s ...