While coding is a good start, school districts need to develop broader computer science initiatives to grow 21st century–ready learners. Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in ...

To teach language to the youngest students, you first introduce them to the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that the letters make. Next, you step forward into combining letters into simple ...

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, ...

What is quantum computing? A high schooler today might be able to tell you. Ohio’s educational institutions are mobilizing to improve how they teach computer science to kids in K-12 schools, but ...

The whiteboard in Professor Mark Stehlik’s office at Carnegie Mellon University still has the details of what turned into a computer science program for high school students. Stehlik and colleague ...

Access to high school computer science courses has plateaued, and overall high school student participation in those classes has declined slightly, concludes Code.org’s annual report on the state of ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...