Jay Stratte Plasman receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Education Sciences. Shaun M. Dougherty does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from ...

Computer Learning Centers suspended classes at its 25 campuses on Monday, after the company took successive hits from the U.S. Education Department and a lender that left it without enough money to ...

Just six percent of high school students in the United States take computer science classes. The numbers are even lower for elementary and middle school. But you’d never know that if you dropped by ...

Over the past decade, an explosion of mobile computing has offered new ways for more people to have an impact in their communities. As a result, more people are studying computer science, whether in ...

Does a child really need a human teacher in order to learn? Most experts will tell you yes, definitely, that teachers make learning easier and give it direction and context. They push and encourage.

Computers have beaten humans at chess and “Jeopardy!,” and now they can master old Atari games such as “Space Invaders” or “Breakout” without knowing anything about their rules or strategies. Playing ...

Gabriel Guimaraes grew up in Vitória, Brazil, in a yellow house surrounded by star-fruit trees and chicken coops. His father, who wrote software for a local bank, instilled in him an interest in ...

The numbers are adding up quite nicely at Westview Elementary School. Students in Nikki Carney’s second-grade class are adding and subtracting three-digit numbers with ease. And not just any ...