How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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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.
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/technology/education-partovi-computer-science-coding-apple-microsoft.html



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