Ethnic, gender imbalances plague computer science education

For Obama administration officials, computer science education has become almost a moral issue.
On the occasion of the release of a new report quantifying the economic benefit of the U.S. software industry, senior officials from the White House and the Department of Education described their efforts to expand computer science instruction for K-12 students, and even to introduce basic programming concepts at the preschool level.
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