Often, that means encouraging principals to give official course codes to computer science classes, encourage a diverse array of students to sign up, and provide meaningful feedback to classroom ...

The College Board launched computer science principles, an advanced placement class, in an effort to draw more young women and students of color into the subject.

San Diego's Sweetwater High School is in one of the districts offering AP Computer Science Principles, the College Board course debuting across the country during the 2016-2017 academic year ...

Overall, participation has grown significantly across all AP computer science classes. Between 2007 and 2016, there was a steady rise from 20,041 to 57,937 participants.

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 ...

News; Education; AI might disrupt math and computer science classes — in a good way Nov. 1, 2023 Updated Wed., Nov. 1, 2023 at 8:59 p.m. University of Washington’s Computer Ethics class ...

AP Computer Science Principles, or CSP, launched nationally in fall 2016. Advertisement A College Board video promoting the course made explicit appeals to underrepresented students.

Jenny Brundin/ CPR News Adriana Ramírez (L), 16, and Laura García (R), 15, work on creating a code together in an AP Computer Science Principles class at Abraham Lincoln High School.

The computer science teachers at Kiski Area are Melissa Schaeffer and Amy Calisti. “They did a great job speaking with students and recruiting them for class,” Roland said.

After years of “intentional” work, Kelso High School’s advanced placement computer science course has been recognized with a female diversity award — one of only a handful of schools in ...

They believe AI will allow introductory computer science classes to tackle big-picture concepts. A lot of beginner students get stuck writing very simple code, Porter and Zingaro said.