Reading 14
Prior to the readings, especially the Ivanka Trump: Computer Science Education a New “Priority” article, I did not know there was such a push towards giving everyone access to a computer science education. That being said, I do believe that this should be the case throughout the United States. The article states, “only 34 percent of African American students and 30 percent of rural high school students have access to a Computer Science class. Furthermore, even where classes are offered, there is a serious gender gap: less than a quarter of the students who took the [Advanced Placement Computer Science] exam nationally in 2016 were girls.” This lack of availability for such large portions of our population is troubling, as many view computer science as the future of how our businesses and economy will work. With the “treat” of automation replacing most less skilled jobs, and even some that are more specialized, being able to create or even just have an understanding of those automated