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State Schools to Make Computer Science a Core Subject
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State education leaders in Massachusetts are planning to make computer science a core course for high school students, making completion of the class a requirement to graduate and for college admission, as part of an effort to meet industry demands.
The state's boards of Higher Education and Elementary and Secondary Education each unanimously approved the creation of a working group to craft a plan due in June that would detail ways to get more high school students studying computer science and boosting the number of graduates pursuing computer science and technology fields in college.
"We have unintentionally created a barrier for the expansion of computer science by the way in which we've treated the discipline or the course at the high school level, which has made it difficult for us to do what a lot of educators want to do on the ground," Education Secretary James Peyser says. "It's changing the way in which we think about and develop these skills in our young people, so that it is not considered an elective or something that is reserved for certain categories of students or certain classes of people."
From Boston Herald
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