At Patterson Joint Unified School District, our teachers union recently negotiated for every classroom teacher to get an additional prep period each week. To cover this time in their schedules, three ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. In the summer of 2021, Christine Bailey, a teacher at Blessed Maria Assunta Pallotta Middle School in ...
Move over, coding. Some schools are asking student programmers to think critically about rapid advances in artificial intelligence. Marisa Shuman challenged her students at the Young Women’s ...
In Megan Bowen’s high school robotics class, students made cardboard mazes, quizzed a local expert who brought live birds into her classroom, and decided how they should be graded, all before touching ...
When advocates push for computer science education, usually they’re talking about boosting the number of schools offering computer science classes – with the intent to reach more students. But from ...
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 ...
Big-name companies like Delta Airlines, UPS, and Starbucks are clamoring for expanding computer science education at the K-12 level. But according to a recent report from the nonprofit Code.org, just ...
The school year is quickly approaching but learning has already begun for educators. As New York ramps up new computer science learning standards, some teachers are preparing to teach new classes for ...
Fikir Teklemedhin, like most middle schoolers, didn’t know what she wanted to do for a career. One day in seventh grade, she found herself sitting in a Java programming class, unsure of what to expect ...
BYU students combine software development training with business strategies projects in CS 405. (Photo illustration by Hannah Miner) BYU computer science students learn to apply business strategies to ...