The State of Computer Science Report by Code.org, CSTA, & ECEP Alliance has tracked individual state progress on nine key policies that promote computer science education in schools across the nation for several years. These…
In my initial #CSEdAnalytics post, The Foundational CS High School: Bigger, Richer, and More Suburban, I summarized some of the data in the 2021 State of Computer Science Education Report a little differently for dramatic…
Which states have taken the greatest advantage of the rapid growth of AP Computer Science Principles to attract students from a broader demographic to CS? Background The introduction of AP CS Principles by the College…
The percentage of students taking (and passing) the AP Computer Science Exam has long been the benchmark used to measure strength in high school computer science education. And until the 2018 State of Computer Science…
Last month – April 2022 – the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) published a position statement on Media Education in English Language Arts. https://ncte.org/statement/media_education/ The position statement is a very admirable document that…
All students are created equal, but all high schools aren’t. The 2021 State of Computer Science Education report utilizes the percentage of high schools with a foundational computer science course as the key indicator to…
The following chart shows the “relative strength” between Hispanic-Latinx and White students of the “conditional probability” between each layer of the HS CS pathway in the 2021 State of Computer Science Education Report: (Observant readers…
The following chart shows the “relative strength” between Black and White students of the “conditional probability” between each layer of the HS CS pathway: (Observant readers will note that the explanation in the two paragraphs…
For women in HS CS, get them in the door! They are more than capable of taking it from there! The below chart shows the “relative strength” between women and men of the “conditional probability”…
For my first blog post on #CSEdAnalytics, I wanted to focus on two charts and one data point from the 2021 State of Computer Science Education Report that I feel are overlooked. A deeper analysis…