Five years ago, California embarked on an ambitious plan to bring computer science to all K-12 students, bolstering the state economy and opening doors to promising careers — especially for low-income ...

In the summer of 2021, Christine Bailey, a teacher at Blessed Maria Assunta Pallotta Middle School in Waterloo, was about to begin a workshop to learn how to teach computer science, and she was ...

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A detailed examination of state systems for certifying computer science teachers concludes that there are fundamental problems with the approaches nationwide and argues that the situation is a major ...

Conversations about improving K-12 computer science education very often seem to culminate with the same question: But where do we get more teachers? At an event held at the Microsoft Policy ...

There are more than 3 million public school teachers in America, and many of them don’t know much about computer science. Whether the ambitious new plan comes to fruition will depend largely on the ...

During the summer, I taught a computer science course for educators at the Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College. Funded by Google’s CS4HS grant, this was a four-day intensive “crash course ...

A recent study of computer science students’ achievement in North Carolina high schools found that instructors’ teaching experience both in general and in computer science specifically had the most ...

Good computer habits in the digital age can help teachers with not just productivity and student achievement, but with health, too. They say computers make life easier. I say they sometimes make our ...

Could you teach computer class without a computer? For Owura Kwadwo Hottish, 33, an information and communications technology teacher in Ghana, it's his only option. At the middle school where he ...