For school leaders, artificial intelligence (AI) might feel like the latest shiny new thing to tackle in education. With ethical questions to reflect on, it may be shiny, but computer science teachers ...

Just six percent of high school students in the United States take computer science classes. The numbers are even lower for elementary and middle school. But you’d never know that if you dropped by ...

Encouraging students to pursue higher-level science, technology, engineering, and math courses requires deliberate planning, especially for those students historically underrepresented in those fields ...

Imagine you’re a ninth grader navigating a world where generative AI, agentic AI and other emerging technologies dominate the headlines. The future feels uncertain, so how do you even begin to decide ...

To teach language to the youngest students, you first introduce them to the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that the letters make. Next, you step forward into combining letters into simple ...

High school senior Gurmeher Kaur was hesitant to study coding when her mom, a computer science professor herself, first suggested it to her. “I was scared of it initially, but once you start, you ...

Jay Stratte Plasman receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Education Sciences. Shaun M. Dougherty does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from ...

In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. A new study of an unusually rich dataset in Maryland found ...

A bill to eliminate a high school science graduation requirement and replace it with a computer science requirement cleared a key state House committee Tuesday. The bill passed on a divided vote in ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.