The CS10K initiative
The CS10K initiative
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CS10K 倡议
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2015
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Amy J. Briggs
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作者:
Quincy Brown;Amy J. Briggs
The collective effort to bring computer science (CS) education to K–12 schools has been ongoing for decades. We are now at an exciting moment in that history with unprecedented collaboration between many groups— K–12 and postsecondary educational institutions, government, industry, professional, and non-profit organizations—all working together towards a common vision of expanded access and opportunity in computer science. The CS10K Initiative spearheaded by Jan Cuny at the National Science Foundation launched in 2010 with the goal of having 10,000 well-qualified teachers of computer science in 10,000 new high schools by 2015. Exploring Computer Science (ECS) and Computer Science Principles (CSP) are the two high school courses funded through CS10K that form the cornerstones of the initiative. Offerings of both courses are scaling up nationally, with the 10,000 goal now tantalizingly within reach. The June 2012 issue of ACM Inroads included a special section dedicated to CS10K and Computer Science Principles. In this issue and the next (Part 1 and Part 2) we provide an update on the overall initiative, with this issue focused primarily on Exploring Computer Science and early access to CS education, and the next installment (December 2015) focusing primarily on Computer Science Principles and access to introductory CS in high school and higher education. We now provide below a brief highlight of the Critical Perspectives article and five supporting contributions in this Part 1 of the special section.