Computer coding classes: Many educators want to turn coding into a new kind of literacy — a fundamental applied skill, a mode of inquiry and expression — that everybody should know.

Computer coding might be added to the curriculum at Wilmette Junior High School to help prepare students for the workplace, officials said. The goal is to offer high-quality 8th-grade computer scie… ...

Pilot computer coding class helps prepare students for tomorrow's careers For two weeks, eight teens participated in Layton Boulevard West's Code Academy, a pilot computer programming class that ...

Only Real Coding Languages Sometimes, classes that teach young kids how to code use programs like Scratch, a basic drag-and-drop program that is never used in the field.

Dozens of Long Island school districts are asking students to put down their pencils and pick up their keyboards to learn the tech-savvy skills of computer programming. About 30 Long Island school ...

The nonprofit STEM Coding Lab is providing computer classes in schools around the region.

There is a growing debate discussing if kids should be required to learn computer coding before graduating high school. In Lee County, some students have already started doing it. 13 out of 20 ...

Move over Spanish, French and Latin. Computer coding could be on the way. A Senate committee Thursday approved a bill aimed at allowing high-school students to take computer-coding classes as an ...