White House Expected To Announce Big Computer Science Push

theodp writes: Politico reports that the White House is talking to groups about a push for computer science education in the coming weeks, possibly in mid-January, which could involve commitments from outside groups or companies. Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi recently credited a 2013 push from the White House for inspiring Code.org to dream up and team up with Big Tech on the wildly-successful Hour of Code, an event that brought teachers, schools, computer scientist volunteers, and other organizations together with the goal of bringing hands-on CS learning to 10 million K-12 students. Coincidentally, the Hour of Code event bears more than a passing similarity to the less-successful and now-abandoned National Lab Day (school flyer), an annual event announced by President Obama in 2009 that brought teachers, schools, computer scientist volunteers, and other organizations together with the goal of bringing hands-on STEM learning to 10 million K-12 students.

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Discrimination fascination

[Anonymous Coward]

Except girls and minorities are discriminated against in CS. Those dongle jokes and long hours are intimidating. Let's make things fair for them by dumbing it down to producing mobile apps and programming the lights on Obuma's crib. Girrrrrrrrl power! Go girl go!

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