From beating the best human players at chess, to flying planes, to running stock market transactions, computers are now used in virtually every facet of modern-day life. But children aren't being ...
As this column fast approaches its 4th birthday come April, one thing I take immense pride in is how many recurring characters have helped shaped this space’s story arc over time. So many of the ...
There was a time when computers were far too expensive to let mere students use them. In those days, we wrote fake programs for fictitious machines and checked them by hand. That wasn’t fun, but it ...
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — UTEP's College of Education won a $1.2 million grant to improve computer science education for students K to 12th grade. The grant comes from the National Science ...
(Editor’s note: This is the eighth of about a dozen student essays we’ll be publishing for this round of Education Lab’s Student Voices program, which is partnering this year with Project Homeless.
Grandparents of children now in school may remember the space race that began in the mid-1950s. Competing with Russia to be the first with a man on the moon, the United States pushed for more math, ...
Times have never been better for computer science workers. Jobs in computing are growing at twice the national rate of other types of jobs. By 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there ...
Code.org’s Hadi Partovi recently wrote a blog post titled “The real reason there aren’t more women in tech.” He listed three reasons: Computer science is not taught in US schools; As an elective, it ...
Called Computer Science for All, the president’s plan was unveiled during his weekly radio address. It builds upon his State of the Union commitment to push for quality computer science and math ...
MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - Computer science can affect many parts of your life, including the app on your phone or the car you drive. Gov. Kay Ivey is advocating for more computer science classes in ...