Participation rates for Advanced Placement science exams —specifically physics and computer science—have risen sharply over the last year, according to data released Sept. 3 by the College Board. The ...

A new analysis of test-taking data finds that in Mississippi and Montana, no female, African American, or Hispanic students took the Advanced Placement exam in computer science. In fact, no ...

Educators and students around the nation are celebrating the completion this year’s Computer Science Advanced Placement (AP) Exam. Students are mostly celebrating the fact that it's over, but teachers ...

Diversity is not one of the tech industry’s strongest suits, but Seattle-based Code.org sees hints this could change in coming years: In 2017, a record number of women and underrepresented minorities ...

A BUG IN THE SYSTEM: Remember 2014, when reports revealed that three states--Mississippi, Montana, and Wyoming--had no girls take the 2013 A.P. Computer Science exam? Looks like there have been a few ...

More girls than ever took an AP computer-science exam this year, Seattle nonprofit Code.org announced Tuesday, calling the results “incredible.” Code.org crunched the numbers from the AP College Board ...

Educators were cheering over newly released results from the College Board showing significant increases in the number of females, Latino and African-American students who took either the Advanced ...

When it comes to introducing more city girls to their inner techie, the Department of Education is starting to crack a complex code. Thanks to the DOE’s campaign to pivot more female students toward ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- More female students are taking and passing Advanced Placement (AP) computer science exams, according to the Department of Education (DOE). The number of female students who ...

It's no secret that tech has a diversity problem. The big-name Silicon Valley companies that release their staffing figures every year often seem embarrassed to do so, because their workplaces are not ...

Nobody’s perfect, but three Monta Vista High students are earning major recognition for being 100 percent perfect on one day. Seniors Ashutosh Jindal, Douglas Chen and Prajit Ramachandran recently ...

More girls than ever took the Advanced Placement computer science exam this year, according to an analysis by Seattle nonprofit code.org. This year, 29,708 girls took an AP computer science exam, an ...