In 2008, when I served as a deputy superintendent at the California Department of Education, two district superintendents approached me with a simple ask: permission to innovate. They had a plan to ...

Phyllis Tate, the computer lab teacher at The Dorset School, has used the Hour of Code approach in her classes since its beginning. A former computer programmer herself before getting into teaching ...

A student raises his hand, sounding irritated and wronged. The look on this 11-year-old’s face seems almost accusatory; his code is not running and he sounds as if it is the teacher’s fault. During my ...

This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Kurt Schlosser on Mar 4 ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KTVU) - This week students around the country and around the world were challenged to up their computer programming game as part of "Computer Science Education Week." At Hillcrest ...

In a recent Guardian op-ed, Ben Tarnoff claims to expose a nefarious reason behind schools’ push to add computer science requirements to their core curriculum. “The campaign for code education isn’t ...

Programming is quickly becoming an essential skill of the 21 st century. The traditional definition of literacy is expanding to incorporate new forms of reading and writing that include markup, ...

Bryan Gonzalez works on a class assignment during a DeltaV class in April at the Geonetric Building, 415 12th Ave. SE, in Cedar Rapids. Gonzalez went from student to teacher when he began teaching ...

Teaching people how to code through widely available programs is the consensus solution to filling a talent shortage facing U.S. tech companies. The White House estimates that 600,000 tech positions ...