Black students are less likely than white students to attend schools offering computer science classes¶
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q2 i? A 2016 report found Black students are less likely than white students to have computer science classes in the schools they attend (47 percent versus 58 percent). → Digital Promise 2017
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Digital Promise 2017¶
Digital Promise. (2017). Computational Thinking for a Computational World. https://digitalpromise.dspacedirect.org/items/a84a9ab5-6541-417f-ba96-4a66715e7732 doi:10.51388/20.500.12265/62
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A 2016 report on gaps in secondary schools, cited by the paper, documents structural and social barriers: it found "Black students are less likely than white students to have computer science classes in the schools they attend," at 47 percent versus 58 percent. No effect size is printed.
"Black students are less likely than white students to have computer science classes in the schools they attend: 47 percent versus 58 percent, respectively."
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Related Claims¶
- Black students were least likely to enroll in CS overall but most likely to enroll once school-level access to CS is accounted for — related
- Access to computing instruction in US schools is limited and inequitable by school level and poverty — a broader claim this one bears on
- Larger CPS high schools were consistently more likely to offer CS courses than smaller schools in both 2012 and 2018 — related
- Computer science offerings in U.S. secondary schools grew from 25 percent to 40 percent between 2015 and 2016 — related
- Nine out of ten U.S. parents want their children to learn coding at school
- School administrators underestimate parental demand for computer science education and face resource and prioritization barriers — related
- Student access to CS grew faster than school access because larger high schools were more likely to offer CS, reaching 92 percent of students by 2018 — related
- CS course offerings in CPS high schools more than doubled between 2009 and 2018, with 80 percent of schools offering at least one CS course by 2018 — related
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Black students are less likely than white students to attend schools offering computer science classes |
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Black students are less likely than white students to attend schools offering computer science classes |
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