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Comprehensive Database Will Track Which K-12 Schools Teach C.S.
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Code.org has announced a joint initiative with the Computer Science Teachers Association to create a nationwide database of U.S. schools showing which teach computer science. Called the K-12 Computer Science Access Report, the database will be a resource accessible to the CS community.
The initiative was founded after Code.org searched "extensively" and found no comprehensive, detailed data on how widely K-12 schools in the U.S. teach CS. "Given our goal is for every school to teach computer science, we want to be able to report more precisely which schools do or don't offer this opportunity to their students," Code.org founder Hadi Partovi said in a statement.
The K-12 Access Report project aims to answer how many and which schools offer CS. The report will include all schools in the National Center for Education Statistics database and will be compiled based on a definition of teaching CS developed in accordance with the K-12 Computer Science Framework.
" Our goal is to gather data for 100% of U.S. schools by the end of 2018," Partovi said.
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