{"id":1190079,"date":"2023-10-08T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190079"},"modified":"2023-10-08T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T15:34:00","slug":"states-are-calling-for-more-k-12-cs-classes-now-they-need-the-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190079","title":{"rendered":"States Are Calling For More K-12 CS Classes. Now They Need the Teachers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: &#8220;42 states to go!&#8221; exclaimed Code.org to its 1+ million Twitter followers as it celebrated victorious efforts to pass legislation making North Carolina the 8th state to pass a high school computer science graduation requirement, bringing the tech-backed nonprofit a step closer to its goal of making CS a requirement for a HS diploma in all 50 states. But as states make good on pledges made to tech CEOs to make their schoolchildren CS savvy, Education Week cautions that K-12 CS has a big certified teacher shortage problem. <\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<p>When trying to ensure all students get access to the knowledge they need for college and careers, sometimes policy can get ahead of teacher capacity. Computer science is a case in point. As of 2022, every state in the nation has passed at least one law or policy intended to promote K-12 computer science education, and 53 percent of high schools offered basic computer science courses that year, according to the nonprofit advocacy group Code.org.&#8221; &#8220;&#8216;There&#8217;s big money behind making [course offerings] go up higher and faster,&#8217; thanks to federal and state grants as well as private foundations, said Paul Bruno, an assistant professor of education policy, organization, and leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. &#8220;But then that raises the question, well, who are we getting to teach these courses&#8230;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Bruno&#8217;s work in states such as California and North Carolina suggests that few of those new computer science classes are staffed with teachers who are certified in that subject.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=States+Are+Calling+For+More+K-12+CS+Classes.+Now+They+Need+the+Teachers.%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F10%2F07%2F2315204%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/twitter_icon_large-287.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F10%2F07%2F2315204%2Fstates-are-calling-for-more-k-12-cs-classes-now-they-need-the-teachers%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/facebook_icon_large-144.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/10\/07\/2315204\/states-are-calling-for-more-k-12-cs-classes-now-they-need-the-teachers?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/10\/07\/2315204\/states-are-calling-for-more-k-12-cs-classes-now-they-need-the-teachers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">States Are Calling For More K-12 CS Classes. Now They Need the Teachers.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: &#8220;42 states to go!&#8221; exclaimed Code.org to its 1+ million Twitter followers as it celebrated victorious efforts to pass legislation making North Carolina the 8th state to pass a high school computer science graduation requirement, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190079\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1190080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,110],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1190079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slashdot","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-slashdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1190080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}