{"id":44,"date":"2010-07-19T16:48:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T16:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gmsitech.com\/ed\/?p=44"},"modified":"2023-08-26T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T14:13:39","slug":"advocates-promote-computer-science-education-in-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmsitech.com\/ed\/advocates-promote-computer-science-education-in-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocates promote computer-science education in high schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2010\/07\/14\/36compsci_ep.h29.html?tkn=SZVF40%2BhhtofVcg3IWzuHPqGNFce3ucArPmJ&amp;cmp=clp-sb-ascd'>Advocates promote computer-science education in high schools<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Proponents of computer-science education are pushing for high schools to include more classes on the subject amid predictions that computing will be among the fastest-growing careers in coming years.<\/p>\n<p><em>Many schools have dropped computer science &#8212; which differs from computer literacy in that it teaches students to make technology rather than use it &#8212; and includes elements of science, math and other disciplines. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Advocates are working to make the subject more appealing to female and minority students, who data show are significantly underrepresented in the field of study at both the high-school and college levels. Education Week (premium article access compliments of EdWeek.org)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates promote computer-science education in high schools Proponents of computer-science education are pushing for high schools to include more classes on the subject amid&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-pedagogy","post_format-post-format-link"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"magaziner-small":false,"magaziner-medium":false,"magaziner-large":false,"alx-small":false,"alx-medium":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"techmsi","author_link":"https:\/\/gmsitech.com\/ed\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Advocates promote computer-science education in high schools Proponents of computer-science education are pushing for high schools to include more classes on the subject amid&#46;&#46;&#46;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmsitech.com\/ed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmsitech.com\/ed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmsitech.com\/ed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmsitech.com\/ed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmsitech.com\/ed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmsitech.com\/ed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/gmsitech.com\/ed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmsitech.com\/ed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmsitech.com\/ed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmsitech.com\/ed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}