The number of students who took the Advanced Placement computer science exam skyrocketed last year, but females and minority students remained underrepresented, and, in multiple states, not a single ...

More girls than ever took an AP computer-science exam this year, Seattle nonprofit Code.org announced Tuesday, calling the results “incredible.” Code.org crunched the numbers from the AP College Board ...

Participation rates for Advanced Placement science exams —specifically physics and computer science—have risen sharply over the last year, according to data released Sept. 3 by the College Board. The ...

A BUG IN THE SYSTEM: Remember 2014, when reports revealed that three states--Mississippi, Montana, and Wyoming--had no girls take the 2013 A.P. Computer Science exam? Looks like there have been a few ...

Learn the hell out of the syntax, that's the best thing you can do for yourself. Everything else is just algorithms (search/sort), classes and inheritance, functions to perform easy tasks, simple ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. - A new report shows no girls in Montana took the Advanced Placement test for Computer Science in 2013. With a push to get more students involved in the field, we decided to take a ...

When it comes to introducing more city girls to their inner techie, the Department of Education is starting to crack a complex code. Thanks to the DOE’s campaign to pivot more female students toward ...

As research reveals that minority students enroll in and pass high school and college STEM courses less often than their peers, efforts are emerging to encourage those student groups to pursue STEM ...

A year ago, the College Board saw the numbers of female students and underrepresented minority students taking the Advanced Placement exam for computer science more than double — but what about this ...

Diversity is not one of the tech industry’s strongest suits, but Seattle-based Code.org sees hints this could change in coming years: In 2017, a record number of women and underrepresented minorities ...