Stereotypes about what boys and girls supposedly like aren’t hard to find. Toy advertisements send signals that science and electronic toys are intended for boys rather than girls. Computer scientists ...
Van “Kendy” Nguyen, 16, didn’t know anything about computer science. Gradi Kabeya, 17, hadn’t done any coding before but said computer science seemed cool and useful. Hazel Ochoa, 16, had dabbled in ...
More states are requiring students to take a foundational computer science class to graduate—employing a powerful policy lever to bridge long-standing gender, racial, and socioeconomic gaps in course ...
11 NEWS HAS HER STORY. BREANA: FROM A YOUNG AGE, GRACE HAS HAD A KNACK FOR TECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE. >> I THINK IT WAS MOSTLY MY DAD BEING AN ENGINEER AND HE WAS ALWAYS TALKING TO US ABOUT ...
This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Lisa Stiffler on Nov 1, ...
LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- A recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report revealed computer science research jobs will grow 19 percent by 2026. Yet nationally, women only earn 18 percent of computer science ...
The state of Paraíba is located in the Northeast of Brazil, a region where investments in science and technology are scarce, and the infrastructure in education is somehow precarious. Among the five ...
Men and women may be equal consumers of technology, but women today represent only 12% of all computer science graduates in the U.S. That number is down from 37% in 1984. Funded by businesses ...
Irene Portillo Poblete remembers how as a little girl she would sit on the floor three feet from the television, watching her favorite animations. She wondered, how did so many mesmerizing stories ...
Through the expansion of educational content in recent years, YouTube has become much more than a site for entertaining escapism, and video creators have heralded in a form of accessible, digital ...
Recent college graduates are questioning the value of their computer science degrees because there aren't as many lucrative ...
Allison Master receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the U. S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not ...