Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Despite growing demand for computer science skills in professional careers and many areas of life, K-12 schools struggle to teach ...

Program change, collaboration, and interdisciplinary majors offer potential. Student enrollment is down, artificial ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

Since generative-AI models like ChatGPT surfaced last November, they’ve caused a frenzy in college classrooms. Professors report that students are using ChatGPT to write essays or complete math ...

In the interconnected world of big data, it’s no secret the field of computer science is booming. At Northwestern, the number of computer science majors has grown more than 600 percent since 2011, ...

Schools expanded the availability of foundational computer science classes this year at a faster clip than at any other time in the past five years, but stubborn gaps in access to those courses ...

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 ...

Amid the havoc that the pandemic wreaked on our lives, there were important lessons to be learned. It proved that people skilled with technology could navigate and succeed, and that many of the ...

Imagine you’re a ninth grader navigating a world where generative AI, agentic AI and other emerging technologies dominate the headlines. The future feels uncertain, so how do you even begin to decide ...

This past fall quarter, Stanford offered an introductory computer science class to more than 200 talented high school students from around the nation. When I first received the opportunity to serve as ...

The evolving needs of the IT workforce are constantly discussed–even people who are far from it understand the constantly growing needs for computer science. And yet, U.S. high schools don’t ...

Northwestern Computer Science honors and recognizes students who demonstrate excellence in computer science mentoring and teaching with the Peter and Adrienne Barris Outstanding Teaching Assistant and ...