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IT programs in high schools: lessons from the Cisco Networking Academy program

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Alan R. Dennis,

Thomas M. Duffy,

Hasan CakirAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 53, Issue 7

Pages 138 - 141

https://doi.org/10.1145/1785414.1785452

Published: 01 July 2010 Publication History

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Student enrollment in college computer science (CS) and information technology (IT) programs are in a downward trend in most developed countries. At the same time, the U.S. Bureau of Labor and their counterparts in other countries forecast an increased need for skilled CS/IT graduates.

To reverse the downwards trend in college level CS/IT enrollment, ACM launched the Computer Science Teachers Association (csta.acm.org), whose mission is to "directly and passionately" advocate for computer science education in the high school.

One major initiative is to develop a comprehensive computer science curriculum that educates high school students and informs them about the profession because a major factor in the enrollment decline is a lack of knowledge about possible CS/IT careers. In this article, we examine one CS/IT program (the Cisco Networking Academy that has been offered in high schools since 1978) to understand what lessons we can draw for other CS/IT high school initiatives.

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IT programs in high schools: lessons from the Cisco Networking Academy program
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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July 2010

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DOI:10.1145/1785414

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