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Google: Poor Kids Might Grasp Macbeth If They Code Like Kids At $43K/Yr School
theodp writes: While the CollegeBoard warned against drawing a causal link between learning computer science and improved learning in other subjects, Google has no such qualms. "CS is much more than computer programming and coding," writes the Google for Education blog in a post announcing a new gateway for Google's CS education opportunities. "It's a gateway to creativity and innovation not just in technology but in fields as diverse as music, sports, the arts, and health." Among the technology showcased at the gateway is Pencil Code, a programming tool for beginning coders that Google boasts is already helping kids attending the $43K-a-year Beaver Country Day School to brush up their Shakespeare by having students create interactive chatbots that play the part of characters like Lady Macbeth. "After completing this code I knew more and understood more of the play," begins one student's featured testimonial. "It allowed me to interpret Macbeth in a new way that I had never thought of before. I really enjoyed using Pencil Code because it made coding simpler for me and helped me try something new." Elsewhere on its CS gateway, Google laments that a new Google-Gallup Research Study shows that 'Blacks and low-income are less likely to have access' to such computer science opportunities.
Nice mixture of racism and social Darwinism you've managed to concoct there, but shouldn't you be off attending a Hitler Youth meeting or something?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Nice mixture of racism and social Darwinism ...
Racism?
Social Darwinism????
You can't grasp the truth, can you? You are afraid of the reality, aren't you?
In my high school 90% of the kids were either black or hispanics. The remainder were a mixture of poor whites, and poor Asians.
Last reunion I went to it was the 30th anniversary of our graduation - of the 90% of the students who were black / hispanics less than 5% of them end up with a college degree, and many of those who didn't get a college degree either were dead or were (at that time) incarcerated
The remaining 10% consisting of poor white and poor asians, almost 70% got their college degree and I counted at least 7 doctors, 20 lawyers, and 15 engineers amongst them
When we were studying at the high school we were kids staying in the same crime ridden hood, but 30 years later many of the poor whites and poor asians moved up the social ladder, while the blacks and latinos remained stuck at that hell hole
Why the whites and asians could move up but the latinos and blacks couldn't
When we were studying in the high school, many of the blacks and the latinos belonged to gangs. While some asians and whites also joined gang, most of the whites and the asians were not involved with gang nor drugs nor any of thsoe stuffs
Whether you like it or not that's the reality, my man --- stop accusing us of being racists when the truth is the blacks and the latinos don't care, they just don't care