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How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:32:11 -0400
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From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org> Date: June 27, 2017 at 7:30:28 AM EDT To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms Coding is one aspect of, but it's not the be-all, end-all of learning to be a good geek. -- rick How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms By NATASHA SINGERJUNE 27, 2017 At a White House gathering of tech titans last week, Timothy D. Cook, the chief executive of Apple, delivered a blunt message to President Trump on how public schools could better serve the nation’s needs. To help solve a “huge deficit in the skills that we need today,” Mr. Cook said, the government should do its part to make sure students learn computer programming. “Coding,” Mr. Cook told the president, “should be a requirement in every public school.” The Apple chief’s education mandate was just the latest tech company push for coding courses in schools. But even without Mr. Trump’s support, Silicon Valley is already advancing that agenda — thanks largely to the marketing prowess of Code.org, an industry-backed nonprofit group. < - > https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/technology/education-partovi-computer-science-coding-apple-microsoft.html
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