During the 2011-12 school year, a student at Sweetwater High School in National City, Calif., approached teacher Art Lopez and asked why their school didn’t offer any computer science courses. Lopez ...

Most elementary school students in the Marysville School District in Washington are getting 40-minute weekly computer science lessons as part of their core instruction. AP MARYSVILLE, Wash. — Moving ...

MARYSVILLE, Wash. (AP) — Moving her finger over the laptop trackpad, 6-year-old Lauren Meek drags and drops a block of code to build a set of instructions. She clicks the “run” button and watches as ...

Expansion of a new Advanced Placement computer science course aimed at drawing young women and minorities into high-tech fields is being hampered by a nationwide shortage of teachers qualified to ...

City high schoolers will soon get a chance to experience the world of computing through a new program to help them get involved with science, technology, engineering and math — better known as STEM, ...

MARYSVILLE, Wash. — Moving her finger over the laptop trackpad, 6-year-old Lauren Meek drags and drops a block of code to build a set of instructions. She clicks the “run” button and watches as the ...

Just six percent of high school students in the United States take computer science classes. The numbers are even lower for elementary and middle school. But you’d never know that if you dropped by ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Female, black and Latino students took Advanced Placement computer science courses in record numbers, and rural student participation surged this year, as the College Board attracted ...

Second graders William Rios (left) and Jose Ramirez work on a debugging lesson during a coding class at Frederick Douglass Elementary in Dallas. Dallas ISD is rapidly expanding computer science ...

Educators were cheering over newly released results from the College Board showing significant increases in the number of females, Latino and African-American students who took either the Advanced ...