“Though computer science has seen sustained growth year after year, the introduction of AP CS Principles this past school year was the largest College Board AP exam launch in history, and has ...

More than 29,700 female students took an AP computer science exam in 2017, a 135% increase from 2016 and a dramatic increase from the 2,600 female students that took the AP Computer Science exam ...

AP computer science principles draws more female, ... This fall 64 students enrolled in the course, Petran said. He did not have detailed demographic data on those students, ...

After just one year in high schools, the course more than doubled the number of female and underrepresented students who took a computer science AP exam. In 2016, only 12,642 female students took ...

Overall, participation has grown significantly across all AP computer science classes. Between 2007 and 2016, there was a steady rise from 20,041 to 57,937 participants.

In contrast, the exam for AP Computer Science A is three hours long and contains two sections: multiple-choice and free response, each of which accounts for 50% of the grade.

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The field of computer science is growing so fast it outpaces all other occupations in the US. It's great work if you can get it. In fact, 70 percent of students who take this AP exam say they want ...

They found that in schools that offered AP CSP, schools reported on average an additional 16 computer science exams taken each year. These test-takers are a more diverse group than before, with ...

When it comes to introducing more city girls to their inner techie, the Department of Education is starting to crack a complex code. Thanks to the DOE’s campaign to pivot more female students ...

Maryland and Rhode Island rank the highest, according to new 2016-2017 school year data from the College Board collected by Code.org, an advocacy group that’s been pushing for more computer ...

AP Computer Science Principles stemmed from a conversation between Janice Cuny, ... In addition to algorithms and programming, the course discusses creativity, abstraction, data and information, ...