ACM Inroads

Welcome to the third installment of EduBits, your quarterly pipeline to new and exciting happenings in the world of ACM education. Starting with this March issue of ACM Inroads, we are introducing a new thread that will highlight principal educational ...

The CS 10K project is an ambitious initiative to transform computing education in the United States; its success is critical to the country's ability to innovate and compete. The computing community has an unprecedented opportunity to affect K-12 ...

The five pilots were taught "under a microscope." Extensive surveying, weekly conference calls, instructor summaries and other methods were used to gather data to understand how well the courses were succeeding. The final report on the pilot 1 courses [...

The CS Principles curriculum framework includes explicit learning goals regarding student abilities in communication and collaboration. Computing majors need these skills. However, what kinds of activities support the development of these skills, ...

Newbury Park high School in Southern California is one of 10 high schools participating in the 2011-12 pilot of Computer Science Principles. Teacher Richard Kick describes student activities from his course, shares some examples of student work, and ...

The new CS Principles course provides an opportunity to advance the goal of making knowledge of computing and computer science accessible to every student. A pilot course used to inform the development of the CS Principles curriculum framework enabled ...

Many countries are engaged in efforts to revamp their high school computer science curricula. This paper touches briefly on the state of affairs with high school CS in Canada, Israel, India, and New Zealand. Each country has different issues to address ...