Business Wire

Amazon Donates $15 Million to Code.org to Create New Equity-Minded Advanced Placement Computer Science Curriculum to Help High School Students in Underserved Communities Excel ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a $15 million donation from Amazon Future Engineer to nonprofit Code.org to support the development and launch of a new equity-minded ...
GeekWire

Amazon donating $15M to Code.org to create AP computer science course with inclusive focus

Amazon is making a $15 million donation to Code.org to help the Seattle nonprofit launch a new Advanced Placement computer science programming course aimed at underrepresented groups of students. The ...
Education Week

College Board’s CEO on How AP Courses Are Changing for the AI Era

The College Board is making a key addition to its 70-year-old Advanced Placement program: creating courses with significant input from the business community—not just higher education—and with career ...
The Washington Post

Report finds new AP computer science course is diversifying the field

Four years ago, high schools across America launched an advanced placement course introducing students to the principles of computer science in an effort geared in part toward bringing more female, ...
Education Week

5 Ways to Make Computer Science More Accessible to All Students

There is a persistent income gap between students taking computer science classes in high school and those who aren’t. That’s a problem because it means a lot of students aren’t getting the ...