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CS as a Graduation Requirement: Catalyst for Systemic Change

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CS as a Graduation Requirement: Catalyst for Systemic Change

Abstract/Description

Since President Obama's announcement of the Computer Science for All Initiative in 2016, there has been a surge in the number of districts that are planning for or newly implementing computer science (CS) offerings at their schools. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is the first large school district to have adopted Computer Science as a high school graduation requirement, taking this significant step along the path towards systemic change. The foundation was laid eight years ago when an informal alliance was formed between a CPS high school CS teacher, a CPS administrator, and three university computer scientists.

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406–407

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Resource type

Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

Published Text

Scholarship genre

Empirical

Open access/full-text available

Yes

Peer reviewed

No

ISBN

978-1-4503-5103-4

Citation

Dettori, L., Greenberg, R. I., McGee, S., Reed, D., Wilkerson, B., & Yanek, D. (2018). CS as a Graduation Requirement: Catalyst for Systemic Change. Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 406–407. https://doi.org/10.1145/3159450.3159646

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