Education Week

Computer Science Courses Are on the Rise—But Girls Are Still Half as Likely to Take It

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 ...
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Lawmakers consider bills requiring computer science course for Ohio students

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — State lawmakers are considering new legislation that would require all high school students in Ohio ...

Positioned to win the tech game? Bay State’s K-12 computer science ed varies widely

WESTFIELD — On a recent morning, students in Renee Sweeney’s engineering class at Westfield High School tinkered with their robots. They worked on writing code to tell the robots how to move. Soon, ...
EdSource

Computer science bill to address disparities in access – if it passes

January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. Unless Assembly Bill 2097 — requiring ...
Education Week

There Aren’t Enough Computer Science Classes for All the Kids Who Want to Take Them

There are far more students interested in studying computer science than there are kids who have taken a computer science class. And that gap is especially pronounced for Black and Hispanic students, ...
The Cornell Daily Sun

Computer and Information Science Students Struggle with Course Enrollment, Adding Stress Instead of Classes

For majors such as information science and computer science, enrollment has nearly doubled in the past five years, creating additional anxiety for students during the add/drop period. While the number ...
The Hechinger Report

AI might disrupt math and computer science classes – in a good way

A student goes over an article in University of Washington’s computer ethics class, taught by Prof. Dan Grossman. Credit: Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education ...
The Clanton Advertiser

Elliot-Elrod scores another computer grant for Jemison

Jemison High’s Brooke Elliot-Elrod secures a new $10,000 Project Lead The Way grant through Lockheed Martin for mobile ...
OPB

How computer science classes are making their way into Oregon schools

The Oregon Department of Education released its first statewide plan for computer science education late last year. The chief goal is for all K-12 public schools to offer some level of computer ...
EdSource

California still lags in computer science classes at high schools

Despite recent gains, California still lags behind 34 other states in the percentage of high schools that offer computer science classes, according to a new report released this week. “The California ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Computer-class enrollees show 20% rise in state

The number of students taking high school computer science classes during this school year increased about 20% over last year, from 10,450 to 12,547, Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Tuesday. The ...