This past fall quarter, Stanford offered an introductory computer science class to more than 200 talented high school students from around the nation. When I first received the opportunity to serve as ...

There are far more students interested in studying computer science than there are kids who have taken a computer science class. And that gap is especially pronounced for Black and Hispanic students, ...

In Megan Bowen’s high school robotics class, students made cardboard mazes, quizzed a local expert who brought live birds into her classroom, and decided how they should be graded, all before touching ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. More California K-12 students at all grade levels could have access to computer science ...

For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha – a website that solves algebraic problems online – has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and ...

Van “Kendy” Nguyen, 16, didn’t know anything about computer science. Gradi Kabeya, 17, hadn’t done any coding before but said computer science seemed cool and useful. Hazel Ochoa, 16, had dabbled in ...

Grace Vanden Heuvel takes math courses online just for fun. She also likes to play music, especially percussion — “anything I can hit, bang or make noise out of.” She's even written a few of her own ...