First-year composition courses, which are required of incoming students at many colleges and universities, lack cachet. No student gets excited about a comp class, and the faculty who teach these ...

Boosting student motivation in computer science Article by Jessica Henderson Photo by iStock February 05, 2025 UD researchers investigate changes in student motivation in first-year computer science ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOIO) - Ohio high schools may soon be required to offer computer science classes by 2027 as the state looks to better prepare students for tech-related jobs. The proposal, which ...

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.

Led by Executive Director Carla Brodley, the center spent its first half decade paying special attention to supporting students who did not take computer science classes in high school and therefore ...

Among this year’s students taking a computer science class for the first time is 16-year-old Nevaeh Chin, a sophomore. She saw that a cybersecurity class was available and decided to take it to ...

Over 250 CEOs released an open letter early May calling for computer science to be a required part of high school curriculum nationwide.

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.

52% of high schools across California offered computer science in the 2023-24 school year. Students who are female, belong to a racial or ethnic minority group, live in rural areas and small towns or ...