Computer science is often misunderstood, says teacher Neil Plotnick, but by approaching it as a tool that is vital in many disciplines, both students and teachers can better appreciate its value.

The increase of students in the major has translated to an increase of students enrolled in various computer science courses. For instance, EECS 281, a prerequisite course to most upper-level EECS ...

Student demand for computer science courses is outstripping the supply of professors, creating a student divide of computing haves and have-nots.

One New York district exposes its students to computer science from prekindergarten through high school.

Code.org’s Hardi Partovi wants every student to have access to computer-science classes. “That would make an enormous difference in our country’s ability to compete," he says.

Code.org announced this week that female and minority high school students participated in its computer science program in record numbers this year.

Half of the high schools in the Capital Region do not offer any computer science courses, according to a report that called for more "computational thinking" at all grade levels.

Sixty-eight percent of students who say computer science classes are offered at their school are interested in learning about the topic, compared to 49% of those in schools that don’t offer classes.

Their lives swirl in technology, but the nation’s high school students spend little time studying the computer science that is the basis of it all. Few are taught to write lines of code, and few ...

This past fall quarter, Stanford offered an introductory computer science class to more than 200 talented high school students from around the nation. When I first received the opportunity to ...

For majors such as information science and computer science, enrollment has nearly doubled in the past five years, creating additional anxiety for students during the add/drop period. While the ...