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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)

Posted by msmash on from the closer-look dept.

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. Yay! Quotas!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Meanwhile, almost 2 out of 3 college students are female...

  2. This is great by Trailer+Trash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Next, let's work on getting more men into nursing and teaching. Diversity is always good, right?

    Right?

    Hello?

    --
    Do you have ESP?
    1. Re:This is great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If they want to get men in to teaching, maybe they need to work on removing some of the stigma that any man interested in children is immediately assumed a pedophile. I was in Manchester recently and saw a park with a sign that literally said men weren't allowed in to it without a child present.
      I know I wouldn't ever go into primary school teaching even though I do legitimately have interest in it. In lower grades everybody assumes you're a pedophile and in higher grades if you piss a female student off she can make the claim you had an inappropriate relationship with her and that's enough to ruin the rest of your life, and likely land you in jail, no matter if the claim was true or not.
      And to think there's people out there lobbying to always believe the accuser when a false accusation ruins the accused so completely.

  3. Re:Who knew? by pezezin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  4. Re:Who knew? by Octorian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    English is the odd one out here. Almost all the languages in the world have gender nouns.

    This is why I get pissed when I see people ranting and raving against what few gendered terms might exist in English discourse. They should be lucky to speak a language that actually has gender-neutral nouns and pronouns.

    Just imagine if these people learned about other languages.

  5. Re:Great by iriecolorado · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Different points of view don't come from different skin color or genitals.