California High Schools Flunk on Teaching Computer Science

With giant companies in Silicon Valley needing software engineers, it would be logical that California high schools would be encouraged to teach computer science courses and the University of California system would count them toward the math requirements for admission. Aren’t both computer science and math what geeks are good at? As pointed out by Santa Clara University associate professor of computer science Dan Lewis there is a severe national shortage of computing-savvy college graduates. Latinos and African-Americans are way under-represented in taking AP (advanced placement) courses in computer science … and way under-represented in headcounts of Silicon Valley high-tech giants. Fortunately, San Jose Mercury News columnist Michelle Quinn is dedicatedly pushing to get headcount breakdowns, which could help motivate these minorities and stimulate their hiring by these giants.

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