Computer programmers are urging that K-12 students be introduced to computer coding—designing and writing source code for computers—early in their school careers, due to a growing scarcity of ...

Learning programming introduces students to solving problems, designing applications, and making connections online. We are witnessing a remarkable comeback of computer programming in schools. In ...

Computer coding classes: Many educators want to turn coding into a new kind of literacy — a fundamental applied skill, a mode of inquiry and expression — that everybody should know.

We list the best school coding platforms, to make it simple and easy for students of all ages to learn coding and programming. While online learning had originally been a minority option for ...

While coding is a good start, school districts need to develop broader computer science initiatives & teach the principles to grow 21st century–ready learners.

Seventh-graders Jason Tran, left, and David Sushkov work out a problem with a kid-friendly coding program in their computer science class at Mills Middle School in Folsom Cordova Unified School ...

When a group of Attracta Abulu’s co-workers at Thomson Reuters in Eagan decided to offer computer-coding classes for about 50 middle-school-age children of their colleagues, she jumped at the ...

Code.org says computer programming enrollment seems to become more diverse when states count it toward high school graduation. Yet this would stop short of making sure all Kansas schools offer coding.

Eventually, as the school adds older kids, the goal is to dig more into hands-on computer coding, Askew said. "Hopefully when we're at our middle school point from 5th to 8th grade, it will look ...

He argues that our schools need to incorporate computer programming into the core curriculum or get left behind.

First independent coding school in Miami opens Miami’s efforts to build a thriving tech hub got a boost this week with the arrival of the region’s first independent computer coding school.