“I was so surprised by how confident I felt with computer science after the training,” Bailey recalled. Last year alone, 150 Iowa teachers participated in NewboCo’s training program.

Training for computer science education differs widely from state to state. As of 2020, 19 states had an independent certification program, 42 allowed teachers to add computer science to an ...

Median Annual Salary: $99,700 Minimum Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science Job Overview: Computer programmers write, test and modify the code that brings software to life.

Washington, which has policies supporting the funding of computer science education and course requirements for schools, was slightly below the U.S. average with 30% female students.

Only a quarter of U.S. K-12 schools offer some kind of computer programming class, and only 28 states even allow computer science to count toward the requirements for graduation.

A third of the high schools in New York don't even offer a computer science class, so there's a lot of work to be done here and the standards are helping to drive that work, Dr. Flatland tells CBS 6.

Jemison High School recently received a $30,000 grant for its computer science program from A+ College Ready for new computer ...

Only about 5 percent of students in New York currently take computer science classes. While the new statewide standards aim to boost those numbers, Robin Flatland, a Siena computer science ...

Beginning in Fall 2026, North Carolina high school students must complete at least one computer science course to graduate, with exemptions for students with learning disabilities.

Last week, security firm CloudPassage issued a report revealing that most of the top ranked computer science programs in the United States don’t require a cybersecurity course. The news has ...

A bill in the Michigan House would require every public high school to offer at least one computer science class. Under the bill, the requirement would start with the 2027-28 school year.