When Anna Otto evangelizes about the power of computer science to transform lives, she’s not just talking as the computer science coordinator for a suburban Colorado district. She’s speaking as a mom.

With 24,000 students, Springfield Public Schools is usually among the three largest school districts in Massachusetts. Our students are spread across 31 elementary schools and a total of 70 schools.

Only slightly more than half of U.S. schools offer computer science, and even fewer elementary and middle school do. Nationwide, just 6 percent of students take computer science courses. But in Long ...

Less than 40 percent of public middle schools say that they are offering computer science coursework. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up ...

Hundreds of education leaders and STEM action makers gather for the seventh CSforALL Summit in Oakland, CA to elevate and cultivate strategies that bring equitable computer science education for all ...

To better prepare students for careers that will inevitably be shaped by computers, Rochester Institute of Technology is introducing a new initiative that encourages people to engage in computing ...

(TNS) — Ohio students would be required to complete a yearlong computer science class to graduate from high school under legislation announced Thursday morning by bipartisan lawmakers. Companion bills ...

Five years ago, California embarked on an ambitious plan to bring computer science to all K-12 students, bolstering the state economy and opening doors to promising careers — especially for low-income ...

Around 20 principals, counselors and other K-12 education leaders from across Oregon discussed how to teach computer science in the classroom and in different school settings at a symposium at Oregon ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

(BCN) — Five years ago, California embarked on an ambitious plan to bring computer science to all K-12 students, bolstering the state economy and opening doors to promising careers — especially for ...