Computer Science in Texas
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Computer Science in Texas
$64,000
Average starting salary for college graduates with computer science degrees (2013).
$36,352
Average starting salary in 2013 for Texas Teachers
$67,000
Average maximum U. S. teacher salary
Remember, the average starting salary for Computer Science graduates was $64,000
Auguste, Kihn, & Miller, 2010
Adames, 2013
Texas Assocation of School Boards, 2013
1.4 million
Out of the
high school students in Texas in 2013-2014
15,583
took either:
Computer Science I
Computer Science II or
AP Computer Science A
Only 19% of the AP Computer Science A test takers were female in 2011.
Number of teaching certificates issued in Texas for Grades 8-12 Computer Science in 2013-2014
101
Meaning
< 2%
of high school
students took
computer science in 2013-2014.
Compare this with 887 certificates issued in Grades 8-12 Life Sciences for the same time frame.
2013
Lower-income students are most likely to lack access to computer science learning.
37.6% % of Texas students were hispanic
18.8% of Texas AP Computer Science A examinees were hispanic
https://secure.sbec.state.tx.us/reports/prodrpts/rpt_edu_tchr_prod_counts.asp
Texas is considered a national leader in K-12 Computer Science Education
NCWIT, 2012
- Texas counts AP Computer Science as a math credit for graduation.
- Texas requires high school CS teachers to be certified in computer science.
- Texas has state standards for computer science courses.
- Texas is a leader in the number of Black, Hispanic and female AP CS enrollees.
Texas had the largest
number of Hispanic students
taking the AP CS exam in
the nation in 2012.
But other states/cities are catching up...
http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/556
http://www.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/184751/students-lack-access-computer-science-learning.aspx
- Texas requires CS to be part of HS curriculum since April 2014 mandate by SBOE.
- Arkansas: requires all public and charter high schools to offer computer science.
- South Carolina is requiring computer science for graduation.
- New York City has committed that every student will have the option to take a CS course by 2025
- Chicago has pledged to make high school CS a graduation requirement by 2018.
- San Francisco will offer CS in every school PK-12, and require it in Grades K-8.
- Many states are implementing a CS teacher cert
Why the deficiency?
Computer Science Education Week
7-13 December 2015
www.hourofcode.com
CS Offerings in Texas are Improving
Only
Lack of teachers
36%
Low student/parent demand
of classroom teachers have
non-teaching
industry work experience
In the 1950s and 1960s many companies used sexist personality tests to screen applicants.
Source: http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/adhocrpt/adfte.html
2013
No incentive for schools to invest in CS Pathway
Microsoft Corporation, 2011
Grace Hopper worked on UNIVAC, the world's first commercially available computer. She came up with a way to program computers using words (code) rather than numbers (algorithms). Her language came to be known as COBOL.
11.9% of Texas students were African-American
3.3% of Texas AP Computer Science A examinees were African-American
Newsweek February 6, 2015
No system connecting HS courses to careers in industry
AAUW
She also cointed the term "debugged" when she removed a moth that had flown into a computer she was working on, jamming the machine.
Texas was #2 in the nation in African-American test takers.
http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/556
16,296
Number of Computer Science jobs available on indeed.com in Texas as of 9/14/2015
< 15%
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Computer+Science&l=Texas
% of graduates who earned
credit in high school computer
science classes
between 1990 and 2009
of Texas high schools offered AP Computer Science in 2013-2014
College Board, 2014
6%
https://code.org/promote/tx
Computer Science
was the
ONLY
STEM subject to
experience a drop
Nord et al., 2011
ENIAC, one of the first electronic computers, was built, in part, by 80 women who ran ballistics trajectories by solving complex differential equations by hand.
By 2020 there will be 1,000,000 more computing jobs than graduates to fill them.
One of the women, Betty Jean Jennings, helped turned the manual machine into the world's first stored-program computer.
40% of middle and high school students report using computers every day at school
This represents a
$500 billion
opportunity gap
TACSE Objectives
code.org, 2014
http://www.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/184751/students-lack-access-computer-science-learning.aspx
Just
7 percent
of principals
and
6 percent
of superintendents
said the
"demand is high"
among parents
for
computer science education.
code.org
Yet
67% of parents
said they thought
students should be required
to learn computer science
in school.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/08/26/computer-science.html
The first mathematical algorithm for a machine was written by Ada Lovelace in 1843, before the machine was ever built. Making her the first computer progammer.
AAUW
Computer Science is the Fastest Growing AP Course of the 2010s
Source: Code.org, College Board