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We'll hear about the Oregon Department of Education's first statewide plan for computer science education, released late last year.
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A debate over data science offerings in high school – and whether the class should be offered as an alternative to Algebra II – has erupted statewide.
Schools expanded the availability of foundational computer science classes, but stubborn gaps in access to those courses persist.
As high schools add data science classes, there’s an emerging push to create standards for them. A working group assembled by Data Science 4 Everyone plans to examine the courses currently taught and ...
Half of the high schools in the Capital Region do not offer any computer science courses, according to a report that called for more “computational thinking” at all grade levels.
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There are far more students interested in studying computer science than there are kids who have taken a computer science class. And that gap is especially pronounced for Black and Hispanic ...
Sixty-eight percent of students who say computer science classes are offered at their school are interested in learning about the topic, compared to 49% of those in schools that don’t offer classes.
A legislative mandate would do what decades-long efforts have failed to do: force districts to make computer science a priority by offering the class.