CS as a Graduation Requirement: Catalyst for Systemic Change

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Title

CS as a Graduation Requirement: Catalyst for Systemic Change

Abstract/Description

Since President Obama's announcement of the Computer Science for All Initiative in 2016, there has been a surge in the number of districts that are planning for or newly implementing computer science (CS) offerings at their schools. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is the first large school district to have adopted Computer Science as a high school graduation requirement, taking this significant step along the path towards systemic change. The foundation was laid eight years ago when an informal alliance was formed between a CPS high school CS teacher, a CPS administrator, and three university computer scientists.

Author/creator

Dettori, Lucia

Greenberg, Ronald I.

McGee, Steven

Reed, Dale

Wilkerson, Brenda

Yanek, Don

Date

2018

In publication

Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Series

SIGCSE '18

Pages

406–407

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Empirical

Keywords

Chicago Public Schools

CS for All

exploring computer science

graduation requirement

high school

instructional coaching

systemic change

teacher professional development

Open access/full-text available

en Yes

Peer reviewed

en No

ISBN

978-1-4503-5103-4

DOI

10.1145/3159450.3159646

URL

Open Access Publisher's Webpage (ACM Digital Library)

Citation

Dettori, L., Greenberg, R. I., McGee, S., Reed, D., Wilkerson, B., & Yanek, D. (2018). CS as a Graduation Requirement: Catalyst for Systemic Change. Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 406–407. https://doi.org/10.1145/3159450.3159646

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Place

New York, NY, USA

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