Peth also noted it was important to help empower children with related skills like problem-solving that not merely has applicability to computer science but all aspects of a person’s life.

The tech industry backed non-profit group says some 600,000 kids will learn how to code in public schools this year, many of them women and minorities.

More than two million students across the nation will learn about computer science thanks to a Seattle organization that is on a serious mission to teach kids how to code.

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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 ...

Research in Microsoft's Project Torino leads to Code Jumper, which introduces kids who are blind and low vision to programming through a physical language.

At a time when parents are eager to give their kids an edge in math and science, several computer programming languages have been developed specifically for children.

The researchers also created detailed guidance that teachers without a computer science background could use to help kids develop coding skills, since they couldn’t expect all schools to have an IT ...

What does it look like to make computer science education accessible for students with disabilities? The guiding principle should be “everyone takes it, and everyone takes it together,” said ...

Especially in an area like computer science, which is always changing, the New York City Public schools cannot possibly hope to keep up. The equipment will be outdated before it’s even installed.

Kids are exposed to artificial intelligence from birth. This is how they may encounter AI in school at different ages and how they can use it safely and constructively.

5. The failure to teach computer science isn’t just impeding kids’ understanding of the digital world, but also crippling our nation’s competitiveness in business.