A new paper examines the ways “whiteness” reproduces racial advantages and disadvantages.

This webcomic tastes like happiness.

Ben Williamson argues that if kids need to learn to code, it should be for digital citizenship, not to become complicit with computational propaganda.

Brief on women in CS; companion to earlier Google report on ethnicity.

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Clear definition of "computational literacy."

Monica Bulger and Mikaela Pitcan interview Jade Davis about student privacy issues when they are assigned social media projects.

Walking up to the Young Women’s Leadership School (YWLS) in the Bronx, there is a barbershop and a few run down bodegas. A group of young men in front ...

Across the United States and Canada, universities and colleges are facing a significant increase in enrollment in both undergraduate computer science (CS) courses and programs. The current enrollme…

It turns out that knitting shares more in common with coding than you'd imagine. And your granny may have used this fact to help spy on the enemy.

"But unlike in some parts of the United States where learning to code is an isolated skill, Finnish children are taught to think of coding and programming more as tools to be explored and utilized across multiple subjects." Which deals neatly with the notion too many US students get that coding is just for sitting in basements.

Last year, the College Board piloted a new Advanced Placement course in computer science: AP Computer Science Principles, a program that the ...

"When investors and politicians say that for-profit colleges offer a flexible solution to retrain the country’s workforce, they are talking about inequality. Whose training in the jobs of the 20th century is now obsolete in the 21st century? Who needs a flexible solution? Women who carry the burden of primary childcare, men working more than one job, older adults caring for both their parents and their own children—a group for whom time isn’t just money, but also the absence of money."

Study finds students' negative diversity experiences, though less common than positive ones, hinder cognitive development and student learning.

Growing market for computer skills By Angie Landsverk Barbara Haase planned to work in criminal justice or psychology but found a career in computer science instead. “It’s never boring,” she said of her work as a senior business analyst and software developer at Waupaca Foundry. As a student at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Haase had little interest in computers. She did data entry as she worked her way through college and graduated from UW-Platteville in December 1996. Haase pursued an entry-level position in psychology and within two years, decided to switch careers. She did so out of consideration for her […]

For-profit intensive engineering academies have become prevalent, but some graduates find themselves in debt and unprepared for tech jobs.