Recommendation
Congress and the states should double the number of STEM charter schools in the United States.
Details
There are approximately 100 STEM-focused high schools in America. Most of these public STEM high schools can provide a deep dive into computer science for interested students and have been proven to be effective in including minorities and students from socioeconomically disadvantaged areas in high-quality STEM education. Doubling the number of STEM high schools will allow more students with a passion and deep ability to excel in computer sciences. Moreover, efforts should be made to ensure that all existing STEM-focused high schools provide a deep and rigorous curriculum in computer science.
Keep reading:
▪ Adams Nager and Robert Atkinson, “The Case for Improving U.S. Computer Science Education” (ITIF, May 2016), https://itif.org/publications/2016/05/31/case-improving-us-computer-science-education/.