In which jerkwad white parents are the problem.

The Democratic presidential candidate’s new student loan forgiveness proposals are unnecessary and would help wealthy Americans over everyone else, Alexander Holt argues.

Dr. Kamau Bobb shares more about his role, helping facilitate the direction of scholarly research.

The current of learning and teaching today. Created and curated by community members.

Women bow out of engineering because group work sucks.

Women who go to college intending to become engineers stay in the profession less often than men. Why is this? While multiple reasons have been offered in the past, a new study co-authored by an MIT sociologist develops a novel explanation: The negative group dynamics women tend to experience during team-based work projects makes the profession less appealing.

How a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching millions of children to master the digital world.

As the White House prepares for its annual science fair, it's worth remembering that these events leave some children behind.

"confidence gap"

2016 study published in Social Problems that looks at how female math and science teachers influence high school students’ decisions to major in STEM fields.

It's tons of harassment and discrimination.

The emphasis on knowing Java and JavaScript could put students of color on the bottom rung of the tech workforce.

Last summer, Bloomberg BusinessWeek devoted an entire issue to “What Is Code?” a single article by Brooklyn-based writer and programmer Paul Ford. Ford’s breakdown of key concepts pulls back the curtain on the fundamentals of computer programming and makes a compelling argument that any smart person can learn the basics—and that the basics are worth learning even for those who aren’t planning to become professional coders. It is, in part, a case for coding as a new frontier in digital literacy. There’s a growing interest in this type of education among kids, teens, businesspeople, career changers, and the generally curious. And a growing number of public libraries are already responding to this need within their communities. Here’s a look at ways in which a few libraries have made their programs a success.

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Credit: R. Stropek, CC BY 2.0 Today marks the last day of the week of Hour of Code, an international programme to give children and young people a brief taste of the basics of coding. Alicia Blum-R…

Plenty of games and apps teach kids to code. But educators and toymakers are betting that teaching computer science isn’t about coding at ...

Swayed by tech evangelists, the government has put programming on the curriculum. But will kids really be left behind without it?