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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Claims It Has Enabled Its Partners To 'Double the Number of Black and Latinx Students and Girls Taking AP Computer Science' (chanzuckerberg.com)

theodp writes: In a Monday blog post, the outgoing Head of Education for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Chan Zuckerberg Initiative made the claim that "we've made investments that enabled our partners to double the number of Black and Latinx students and girls taking AP Computer Science." The claim is an apparent reference to the highly-promoted and wildly-successful new AP Computer Science Principles course (dubbed "Coding Lite" by the NY Times), which the NSF and College Board began development on in 2009. Zuckerberg's CZI LLC was created in late 2015.

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  1. how many in total? by ole_timer · · Score: 5, Funny

    from 2 to 4?

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  2. Re:Who knew? by avandesande · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually it's a new flavor of Linux documented in Latin, why would you think they would post gender/identity BS on this site?

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  3. Latin[ao] by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    If they can't understand a simple regex then they don't have a hope in CS. Perhaps they could become narrative diversity therapists or something.

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  4. Re:Who knew? by fuzznutz · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have lived all my life in Spain, so obviously Spanish is my mother language, and I'm seriously tired of all the idiots who try to promote this supposedly "gender neutral" language, ending words in -@, -x or -os/as. The first two are unpronunceable, the last one is way too cumbersome. I wish they would stop butchering our language.

    If you can convince media personalities in the US from breaking into hyper exaggerated, ultra accented Spanish pronunciation of Spanish names while reporting otherwise in an American accent, we have a deal.

  5. Re:Great by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or more people programming, bringing in different points of view.

    Like what? That OOP is inherently unfair because it uses classes?

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