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Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Despite growing demand for computer science skills in professional careers and many areas of life, K-12 schools struggle to teach ...

Fourth graders participate in an introductory lesson on artificial intelligence during a computer applications class at Dr.

A high school student programs a robot during one of Sacramento State's Summer Academies for High School Youth in 2017. A new program at Sac State will provide local K-12 teachers with a special ...

It’s no secret that computer science (CS) courses are not a priority in many high schools. Across the nation, many schools get away with packaging courses that teach kids to make Powerpoints, ...

FARGO – It was 3 p.m. Wednesday and nearly the end of the academic day at Davies High School. But that wasn't stopping Ullrich Reichenbach's students from turning big rocks into little rocks. Or, more ...

This past fall quarter, Stanford offered an introductory computer science class to more than 200 talented high school students from around the nation. When I first received the opportunity to serve as ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

The Chicago school system plans to boost computer science from an elective to a core subject with a new, districtwide K-12 program, in what is being described as one of the most ambitious expansions ...

Hogan is a doctoral student in computer science at UC San Diego and lives in Santee. This fall will be my third time teaching introductory computer science inside Richard J. Donovan Correctional ...

A divided federal appeals court ruled that the University of Washington violated a computer science professor’s First ...

Lauren Margulieux receives funding from Snap, Inc., Google, the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Education. Despite growing demand for computer science skills in professional ...