According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average salary for a computer programmer was $77,550 per year in 2014. Most computer programmers have a Bachelor’s degree. Simply, coding is ...

Like most high school students, Wells Community Academy junior Darius Taplet doesn’t know much about computer programming, a skill that is increasingly seen as a ticket to the good life. But the ...

The “teach kids to code” movement has many thinking that computer science is just coding. Often the two are conflated since coding is definitely the most visible component of computer science. It is ...

The message from many educators, technology industry executives and politicians is clear – everyone should learn how to code. But why? “As more communication is being conducted through code, we are ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. This spring, at ...

One of the roles our education system is supposed to play is to prepare kids to be responsible citizens, with the skills needed to be successful in adulthood. All of the various classes — starting in ...

A student at Pacific Middle School in Des Moines, Wash., writes computer code as part of the international Hour of Code ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about ...

A movement by parents and lawmakers to get computer coding classes to count toward foreign language credits in school hit a snag this month — but advocates aren't giving up. Subscribe to read this ...