Given the huge demand for highly-trained computer experts and engineers, secondary education is already trending towards a marked increase in computing classes. Now, Congress is considering a bill to help close the skills gap and strengthen our national competitiveness. The bill, currently in the House of Representatives, is the Computer Science Education Act (HR 2536).
Topics: Association for Computing Machinery, Computer Science, Computer Science Education, Computer Science Education, Computer Science Education Act, Computer Science Teachers Association, Congress, CSTA, Early Education, Foundations, House of Representatives, Introduction to Computer Science, Jared Polis, Secondary Education, Susan Brooks
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recently announced a partnership with Code.org to expand computer science education in K-12 education. The goal of this partnership is to provide every K-12 student with exposure as a “rigorous discipline that includes some serious exposure to programming, systems, languages, and computer architecture.”
ACM President Vinton Cerf said, “Reforming K–12 education to incorporate serious computer science seems vital to producing an informed public that has a deeper appreciation for the power of computing than video games and social networking.” Cerf also stated that an education in computer science would better prepare students for one of the projected 1.5 million job openings in computing-related fields over the next 10 years.
Topics: Association for Computing Machinery, Computer Science, Introduction to Computer Science, K-12 education, Programming