LITTLE ROCK -- The Arkansas Department of Education has awarded $118,700 to 179 students and 36 schools for achieving qualifying scores on Advanced Placement computer-science exams. An additional ...
Last year, the College Board piloted a new Advanced Placement course in computer science: AP Computer Science Principles, a program that the organization hoped would engage more females and students ...
Educators and researchers have had longstanding concerns about the quality of computer science instruction in U.S. schools. A recent study exploring student learning and computer science teachers' ...
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 ...
The pool of test-takers for the Advanced Placement computer science exam is still overwhelmingly white and male, according to data from the College Board, which administers the AP tests. The number of ...
Amazon is making a $15 million donation to Code.org to help the Seattle nonprofit launch a new Advanced Placement computer science programming course aimed at underrepresented groups of students. The ...
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a $15 million donation from Amazon Future Engineer to nonprofit Code.org to support the development and launch of a new equity-minded ...
At the department level, Humanities and Social Sciences recorded a 100 per cent placement rate, the highest among all ...
The College Board is eliminating only one Advanced Placement computer-science course after the 2008-9 academic year, the U.S. Association for Computing Machinery is telling its membership. The group, ...
A recent study of computer science students’ achievement in North Carolina high schools found that instructors’ teaching experience both in general and in computer science specifically had the most ...