Ryan Kulsakdinun earned a perfect score on the AP Computer Science A exam. He is one of 369 test-takers nationwide — less than 0.5 percent of the total — to earn the score during the testing ...

“In the seven years since we began the AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award, it’s been heartening to see schools like Batavia High School welcome so many more young women into this vital ...

1. Take a hard look at the prerequisites for computer science classes Don’t make introductory classes contingent on hard-to-master prerequisites, say Archer and Hoyt.

Students, from left to right, Ian Mwangi, Matthew Watkins, Dejai Brown and Myke'l Rodgers work on a project in a computer science principles course in December 2017 at Flowers High School in ...

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 ...

Not only did these students receive the top score of 5 but they were 5 out of 112 students (amounting to just 0.2 percent of the 60,878 students who took the 2017 AP Computer Science A Exam) from ...

The increases are largely due to a new AP computer science class launched in 2016-17 that focuses less on Java coding and more on what the College Board describes as the “big ideas” behind computer ...

Girls went from 34.7 percent to 39.5 percent of test takers. Underrepresented minorities increased from 17 percent to 20.5 percent. Computer Science Growth ...

So far, more than 70 of the largest U.S. school districts have partnered with Code.org, which is also helping 10,000 teachers per year with computer science education training.

U.S. News broke down the numbers and found not only that boys outnumber girls by more than 4 to 1 among computer science test-takers, but by more than 2.5 to 1 on Physics C tests, which test ...