Since its launch, AP Computer Science Principles has become one of the most dramatically expanding AP courses, increasing access for both underrepresented minorities and female students to the field ...

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

It’s Computer Science Education Week—and there’s probably no better time to look at where we are as a nation in accomplishing our computer science goals. “When the National Science Foundation ...

AP Computer Science is getting a facelift—or rather, an entirely new face. The College Board has announced that this fall it will launch a new Advanced Placement course in computer science: AP ...

ABERDEEN – Aberdeen High School has earned the College Board AP® Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science Principles (CSP). Schools ...

The Schechter School of Long Island has earned the College Board AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science Principles for the second ...

Ten years ago, girls were so scarce in high school computer science classes that the number of female students taking Advanced Placement tests in that subject could be counted on one hand in nine ...

Code.org, which started offering an advanced placement computer science principles this school year in partnership with The College Board, could more than double the number of underrepresented ...

It’s no secret that computer science (CS) courses are not a priority in many high schools. Across the nation, many schools get away with packaging courses that teach kids to make Powerpoints, ...

Four years ago, high schools across America launched an advanced placement course introducing students to the principles of computer science in an effort geared in part toward bringing more female, ...

LA VERNE, Calif. (KABC) -- A Southern California senior has earned a rare perfect score on his Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles exam. Nathan Kwan attends Bonita High in La Verne. He ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Female, black and Latino students took Advanced Placement computer science courses in record numbers, and rural student participation surged this year, as the College Board attracted ...