Black Enterprise

AP Computer Science Principles Paves the Way to STEM Success

It’s Computer Science Education Week—and there’s probably no better time to look at where we are as a nation in accomplishing our computer science goals. “When the National Science Foundation ...
EdSurge

Will Teaching New Computer Science Principles Level the Playing Field?

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, ...
Black Enterprise

AP Computer Science Course Makes CS Accessible

In the wake of Computer Science Education Week, Dec. 5—11, last week I wrote about the work of Emmanuel Onyeador, a computer science teacher in Oakland, California, who founded the computer science ...
Campus Technology

AP CS Principles Most Successful Launch to Date; Has Become a 'Mission' for College Board

A recent computer science addition to the College Board's Advanced Placement course offerings has seen wild success decades after the non-profit originally introduced the subject in its college-level ...
Business Insider

Facebook and Apple are backing a new course that gives kids college credit for learning to code — and it's the fastest-growing AP course ever

Big companies like Apple, Facebook, and Amazon are supporting a new Advanced Placement computing course for high-school students. The course was designed to attract a broader group of students into ...
TechCrunch

Code.org is drastically increasing the number of underrepresented minorities taking AP computer science

Code.org, which started offering an advanced placement computer science principles this school year in partnership with The College Board, could more than double the number of underrepresented ...
University of Wyoming

Survey Development for Increasing Integration of Computer Science Principles and Pedagogy into Core Mathematics Instruction

The urgent need to provide all Wyoming students with quality and comprehensive computer science (CS) instruction is both a matter of compliance and equity. Despite this urgency, a practical plan for ...