The College Board offers two distinct Advanced Placement classes for motivated students with an interest in computer science: AP Computer Science A and AP Computer Science Principles. In the ...

In fall 2016, the College Board launched a new Advanced Placement course called AP Computer Science Principles, an introductory class about the quickly evolving and indispensable world of computer ...

(NewsUSA) – For too long there has been a shortage of women and a lack of diversity in both computer science classrooms and in the workforce. AP Computer Science Principles, or AP CSP, was introduced ...

In the wake of Computer Science Education Week, Dec. 5—11, last week I wrote about the work of Emmanuel Onyeador, a computer science teacher in Oakland, California, who founded the computer science ...

AP Computer Science is getting a facelift—or rather, an entirely new face. The College Board has announced that this fall it will launch a new Advanced Placement course in computer science: AP ...

In addition, an introductory high school course Exploring Computer Science–developed by researchers at UCLA and the University of Oregon with NSF funding–will expand opportunities for students to ...

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 ...

Encouraging students to pursue higher-level science, technology, engineering, and math courses requires deliberate planning, especially for those students historically underrepresented in those fields ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. Less than 10 percent of computer scientists are African-Americans and Hispanics, and only 18 percent of women ...