Within a few years, every single student in the San Francisco Unified School District will be studying computer science, at all grade levels.
The city’s Board of Education unanimously approved the measure during its weekly meeting on Tuesday evening.
"Information technology is now the fastest growing job sector in San Francisco, but too few students currently have access to learn the Computer Science skills that are crucial for such careers," Board President Emily Murase said in a statement on Wednesday. "We are proud to be at the forefront of creating a curriculum that will build on the knowledge and skills students will need starting as early as preschool."
According to the district, computer science classes are relatively rare across the United States.
"Currently, no national, state, or local standards exist for Computer Science and the academic research in Computer Science education is quite limited," the board wrote. "As such, a cohesive progression of Computer Science knowledge and skills does not yet exist."
It's the year 2015. Why isn't CompSci a mandatory part of the curriculum everywhere in America? It was at my gymnasium (academic high school) in Germany, and that was 25 years ago.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday June 14 2015, @11:28AM
so why educate them in a dead end field?
That would be "train". The education sector avoids education whenever possible, its a neo talking point that school is only for vocational training etc.
Anyway, yes, the purpose of public education is to prepare people for life a century ago. Before recording you could make a poor living as a live musician. Before mass production you could make a living as an artist/craftsman. So schools teaching computer science is a strong indication the party is over and nobody will ever make a living in CS again other than the usual overachievers trying to check boxes to get into ivies.