With as fast moving as technology is these days, coding has become almost as essential to a child’s education as math and reading. Unfortunately, not every school is teaching computer programming just ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. This spring, at ...

As someone who chats with startup founders for a living, I've always admired the "builders." I have a lot of respect for their technical ability to dream up an idea and code it into existence, but ...

Last summer, Chandra Floyd came to the realization that her dreams carried more weight than the fear of failure. She quit her job as a special events manager at the Detroit Institute of Arts after 11 ...

It’s a Sunday morning at East Dulwich Picturehouse in South London, and a group of three- and four-year-old children is playing in a backroom. But not with cars or dolls. Instead, they are learning ...

Coding can help students understand the building blocks of world languages, and it provides an authentic way to tell stories.

At California’s San Quentin prison, inmates who never even used a computer before are learning software development and planning their apps. Like everyone else in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jason ...

With technology transforming every aspect of peoples' lives, careers in science, technology, engineering, and math have taken off. The evolution of tech startups, mobile apps, social media platforms, ...

“You don’t need to go to grad school. Save your money. I’ll teach you how to code.” Seven years ago, in a bar near downtown Los Angeles, I was sharing a drink with a new friend. We had met on a travel ...

Google today announced that Grasshopper, its tool for teaching novices how to code, is now available on the desktop, too, in the form of a web-based app. Back in 2018, Grasshopper launched out of Area ...

As someone who chats with startup founders for a living, I've always admired the "builders." I have a lot of respect for their technical ability to dream up an idea and code it into existence, but ...