Article
CS as a Graduation Requirement: Catalyst for Systemic Change
SIGCSE '18 Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2-1-2018
Pages
406--407
Publisher Name
Association for Computing Machinery
Disciplines
Abstract
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.
Identifier
ISBN: 978-1-4503-5103-4; doi>10.1145/3159450.3159646
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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Citation Information
Lucia Dettori, Ronald I. Greenberg, Steven McGee, Dale Reed, et al.. "CS as a Graduation Requirement: Catalyst for Systemic Change" SIGCSE '18 Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (2018) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ronald-greenberg/73/