Thanks again for joining us for today’s free live chat on schools making computer coding a powerful learning tool. We’ll be getting underway with Michelle in just about 10 minutes. In the meantime, ...

How tech companies sold schools on computer-science instruction that hasn’t worked out for many children.

To be a successful scientist in academia it is no longer sufficient to be good at science. In addition to expertise in experimental methods and data analysis, scientists must also excel in public ...

The “teach kids to code” movement has many thinking that computer science is just coding. Often the two are conflated since coding is definitely the most visible component of computer science. It is ...

South Hills High School teacher Saleta Thomas bills her class as a digital game-design program for students. But once students opt to take the class, they start learning computer coding through basic ...

Computer science jobs in the United States are some of the fastest-growing and highest-paying, but a majority of students have no access to computer science classes before high school or college. One ...

Taylor Howell works on a Java coding assignment in Lisa Whallon's class at Olathe Northwest High School. A teenager wakes up, gets ready for school. Slips a smartphone into her pocket on the way out ...

Give Disney credit. The company known for its top-notch animation is trying to spread the wealth of information to kids, but in an incredibly clever and creative way. It released a web-based ...

A movement by parents and lawmakers to get computer coding classes to count toward foreign language credits in school hit a snag this month — but advocates aren't giving up. Sen. Jeremy Ring, a former ...

It's a difficult job market for new graduates, especially in fields like software development where artificial intelligence is shouldering more of the work ...