There was a time when computers were far too expensive to let mere students use them. In those days, we wrote fake programs for fictitious machines and checked them by hand. That wasn’t fun, but it ...

From beating the best human players at chess, to flying planes, to running stock market transactions, computers are now used in virtually every facet of modern-day life. But children aren't being ...

“Computer science is the new literacy,” says Vandana Sikka, who heads up the Infosys Foundation, the charitable wing of Infosys. That’s why the organization is partnering with the National Science ...

A student completes the Minecraft-themed coding tutorial that Microsoft built with Code.org. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft wants to turn kids’ love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming ...

(Editor’s note: This is the eighth of about a dozen student essays we’ll be publishing for this round of Education Lab’s Student Voices program, which is partnering this year with Project Homeless.

CHEYENNE – Kids across Wyoming are learning to do computer coding this week. The Wyoming Department of Education declared Dec. 5-11 to be Computer Science Education Week in Wyoming, and Gov. Matt Mead ...

Grandparents of children now in school may remember the space race that began in the mid-1950s. Competing with Russia to be the first with a man on the moon, the United States pushed for more math, ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — UTEP's College of Education won a $1.2 million grant to improve computer science education for students K to 12th grade. The grant comes from the National Science ...

“What would the school system look like if computer science had the same curriculum the way biology does?” That’s the question Hadi Partovi asked himself before launching his education nonprofit, Code ...

Shortly after Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in February 2012, liberal activist Van Jones was talking with his friend Prince—yes, that Prince—about the circumstances of the shooting. “I think he ...

As digital technology and artificial intelligence play a larger and larger role in everyday life, Louisiana wants students from kindergarten through high school to learn the basics of computer science ...