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San Francisco Votes to Expand Computer Science Education Across all Grades

posted by martyb on Sunday June 14 2015, @06:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the this-will-prove-interesting dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by hendrikboom on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:24PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 14 2015, @03:24PM (#196136) Homepage Journal

    Computers already write their own software. When was the last time you wrote code in binary?

    -- hendrik

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday June 15 2015, @06:37PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Monday June 15 2015, @06:37PM (#196605) Journal

    Computers already write their own software. When was the last time you wrote code in binary?

    That's mere translation. Sure, you can feed a novel through Google Translate; but generally we wouldn't consider that to be the computer writing a book.