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Stuck in the Shallow End : Education, Race, and Computing.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (216 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262279109
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Stuck in the Shallow EndDDC classification:
  • 004.071/2
LOC classification:
  • QA76.27.M347 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 An Unlikely Metaphor -- 2 Technology Rich, But Curriculum Poor -- 3 Normalizing the Racial Divide in High School Computer Science -- 4 Claimed Spaces -- 5 Teachers as Potential Change Agents -- 6 Technology Policy Illusions -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Appendix A: Methodology -- Notes -- References -- About the Authors -- Index.
Summary: An investigation into why so few African American and Latinx high school students are studying computer science reveals the dynamics of inequality in American schools.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 An Unlikely Metaphor -- 2 Technology Rich, But Curriculum Poor -- 3 Normalizing the Racial Divide in High School Computer Science -- 4 Claimed Spaces -- 5 Teachers as Potential Change Agents -- 6 Technology Policy Illusions -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Appendix A: Methodology -- Notes -- References -- About the Authors -- Index.

An investigation into why so few African American and Latinx high school students are studying computer science reveals the dynamics of inequality in American schools.

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