Sweet’s AP Computer Science Principles class at Renaissance High School had 35 students, 63 percent of whom were female. All but two of his students decided to take the final exam, and 27 passed.

Computer science classes have been at Crockett County High School in Alamo, Tennessee, for about three years now, but Karen Cavaness, the lone certified computer science instructor, has been able ...

How much you can expect to spend on an AP computer science book. Basic computer science books will vary in price from about $7-$12, while mid-range books that go into more detail range from $12-$25.

In fact, 70 percent of students who take this AP exam say they want to work in computer science. Trouble is, it's mostly white or Asian men who land these high-paying jobs.

Jenny Brundin/ CPR News Adriana Ramírez (L), 16, and Laura García (R), 15, work on creating a code together in an AP Computer Science Principles class at Abraham Lincoln High School.

For 59 percent of Hispanic or Latino students who took the AP computer science principles test in the graduating class of 2019, it was their first AP exam in a STEM field.

Overall, participation has grown significantly across all AP computer science classes. Between 2007 and 2016, there was a steady rise from 20,041 to 57,937 participants.

Big-name companies like Delta Airlines, UPS, and Starbucks are clamoring for expanding computer science education at the K-12 level. But according to a recent report from the nonprofit Code.org ...

Of the approximately 330 public high schools in Massachusetts that offer AP classes, two-thirds of them included an AP computer science course last school year, according to data from the ...

Thanks to the DOE’s campaign to pivot more female students toward lucrative career paths in the sector, the number of girls who took an Advanced Placement computer-science class increased nearly ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.. In her two years of high school at Dearborn Public Schools’ Virtual K-12 school, rising junior ...

Amazon Future Engineer students. (Business Wire Photo) Amazon said its Future Engineer program will fund computer science classes at more than 1,000 high schools in all 50 states by this fall.