In 2008, when I served as a deputy superintendent at the California Department of Education, two district superintendents approached me with a simple ask: permission to innovate. They had a plan to ...

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 Kurt Schlosser on Mar 4 ...

A student raises his hand, sounding irritated and wronged. The look on this 11-year-old’s face seems almost accusatory; his code is not running and he sounds as if it is the teacher’s fault. During my ...

In a recent Guardian op-ed, Ben Tarnoff claims to expose a nefarious reason behind schools’ push to add computer science requirements to their core curriculum. “The campaign for code education isn’t ...

Over a decade after introducing students to the fundamentals of computer science through its Hour of Code campaign, education nonprofit Code.org is broadening its reach with a new program that bridges ...

Bryan Gonzalez works on a class assignment during a DeltaV class in April at the Geonetric Building, 415 12th Ave. SE, in Cedar Rapids. Gonzalez went from student to teacher when he began teaching ...

Programming is quickly becoming an essential skill of the 21 st century. The traditional definition of literacy is expanding to incorporate new forms of reading and writing that include markup, ...