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The long road to Computer Science education reform

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 9

Pages 33 - 35

https://doi.org/10.1145/1562164.1562178

Published: 01 September 2009 Publication History

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Viewing the factors impeding improvements to CS education from kindergarten through grade 12 from a policy perspective.

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IT policy

The long road to Computer Science education reform
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy
    1. Government technology policy
  2. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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Communications of the ACM Volume 52, Issue 9

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September 2009

139 pages

ISSN:0001-0782

EISSN:1557-7317

DOI:10.1145/1562164

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Published: 01 September 2009

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