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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, Informative) by Joe Desertrat on Sunday June 14 2015, @05:12PM
Assuming, of course, that these classes won't just be Microsoft Essentials classes or mere programming classes where they copy code out of a book labeled as Computer Science classes, they will almost certainly be taught poorly. We can't even teach math, English, or any of the other subjects correctly; all they want is rote memorization. You're not expected to truly understand anything. Likely, people will get nothing out of this unless they explore on their own; the same as before, in other words.
Kids who do explore on their own end up getting in trouble for being "hackers".