Treat Computer Science As a Science: It's the Law

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @12:55AM from the gravity-now-officially-points-down dept.

theodp writes: Last week, President Obama signed into law H.R. 1020, the STEM Education Act of 2015, which expands the definition of STEM to include computer science for the purposes of carrying out education activities at the NSF, DOE, NASA, NOAA, NIST, and the EPA. The Bill was introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Rep. Elizabeth Etsy (D-CT). Smith's February press release linked to letters of support from tech billionaire-backed Code.org (whose leadership includes Microsoft President Brad Smith), and the Microsoft-backed STEM Education Coalition (whose leadership includes Microsoft Director of Education Policy Allyson Knox).

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Deniers by cgold · 2015-10-13 03:01 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Great, now we're going to have nutcases trying to force schools to teach "alternative" computer theories! "OK kids, today we're going to talk about Computer Science. Some people claim that software is translated to machine code which is performed by a microprocessor inside each computer, but others believe that a supreme being is monitoring everybody's keystrokes and doing all the math in his head'