As the nation’s schools gear up for a massive push to expand computer-science education, they face a significant challenge: Who will teach all these highly technical classes? Enter Code.org, the ...

Technology has transformed education but while students learn how to use it, they rarely learn how it works. Now a growing realisation among educators that this gap needs to be filled is prompting a ...

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, ...

Seattle-based computer science education nonprofit Code.org is helping to launch TeachAI, a new effort aimed at guiding governments and educators on teaching with and about artificial intelligence.

With all the national attention to writing codes to break codes on certain cell phones it is important to upgrade the national standards in education. All of our electronic toys and necessities are ...

Facebook has announced its “FbStart Apps of the Year”, which is an event which recognizes the most successful apps from the global FbStart program. This year’s Grand Prize winner is SoloLearn’s CTO ...

A Birmingham-based startup teaching coding skills to underserved communities got an infusion of cash less than a year after the company’s formation. Vero Skills, based at Innovation Depot, raised $500 ...

Every era demands—and rewards—different skills. In different times and different places, we have taught our children to grow vegetables, build a house, forge a sword or blow a delicate glass, bake ...

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 ...