Leadership Magazine: Why Computer Science Matters

Leadership Magazine…In a report released earlier this year, “Path Not Found,” research staff from the Level the Playing Field Institute found that public high schools in California with the highest percentage of students of color offer com- puter science courses at a rate nearly half that of schools with the lowest percentage of un- derrepresented students of color. While Af- rican American and Latino students make up 59 percent of California’s public school students, only 11 percent were 2014 AP Computer Science test takers.

More than 75 percent of schools with the highest percentage of low-income students offer no computer science courses. Student access to computer science courses does not reflect the state’s student demographics, and this decline in numbers has had a disparate impact on African American and Latino students from low-income communities.

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