To teach language to the youngest students, you first introduce them to the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that the letters make. Next, you step forward into combining letters into simple ...

While coding is a good start, school districts need to develop broader computer science initiatives to grow 21st century–ready learners. Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in ...

Chancellor of NYC Department of Education Carmen Farina (L) and Bill de Blasio after outlining his vision for New York City schools at Bronx Latin School. Getty Images Well the good news is that the ...

Schools expanded the availability of foundational computer science classes this year at a faster clip than at any other time in the past five years, but stubborn gaps in access to those courses ...

In the interconnected world of big data, it’s no secret the field of computer science is booming. At Northwestern, the number of computer science majors has grown more than 600 percent since 2011, ...

A handful of nonprofit and for-profit groups are working to address what they see as a national education crisis: Too few of America's K-12 public schools actually teach computer science basics and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on innovation, edtech ecosystems and entrepreneurial mindset. In January of this year, the Obama administration launched ...

Students in Finland play chess to learn coding skills. Coding, the ability to read and write the language of computer software, is considered an important future skill, a fluency in the common langue ...

As digital technology and artificial intelligence play a larger and larger role in everyday life, Louisiana wants students from kindergarten through high school to learn the basics of computer science ...

At one time, Minnesota was a pioneer in computer science education. It was, after all, a Minnesota-made computer game that influenced schools around the country and the world to start integrating ...

Les Perelman, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been doing some interesting experiments to test the capacity of computerized grading systems to accurately judge the ...