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Teaching coding in kindergarten helps young students learn important creativity and problem-solving skills that will position them for success as they move through school, said Amanda Strawhacker, ...

Back when Grant Hosford's older daughter was in first grade, she signed up for an extracurricular class, building robots with a programmable Lego toy called Mindstorms. Hosford, a dot-com entrepreneur ...

It's all about the basics for kindergartners: numbers, letters … and programming? The Pinellas County school district, which starts classes on Thursday, has found a way to introduce the fundamentals ...

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 ...

Today’s kids already live in a world where tablets are replacing books, computers are built into glasses and the internet is set to connect all things. While the specifics of most programming ...

According to HCS Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Dave Minsker, the district has talked about launching a STEM program for younger students for the last 10 years. With their 2020 ...

After seven years of teaching elementary school, Charnelle Evans wanted to pursue a career in tech. But she wasn’t sure how to break in until an episode of the Teacher Career Coach podcast with a ...

Introducing coding to kindergarten students helps them reflect on their own learning as they develop 21st-century skills such as problem solving and creativity, experts say. Coding has emerged as one ...