Feature Story

December 4, 2007

New Effort to Recognize Computing Education as Critical to 21st Century Workforce

From Association for Computing Machinery:

ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) has created a high-level committee of acclaimed computer scientists and educators to improve opportunities for quality education in computing and computer science.

Chaired by Bobby Schnabel, dean of the Indiana University School of Informatics, ACM's new Education Policy Committee (EPC) will develop initiatives aimed at shaping national education policies that impact on the computing field.

The EPC will initially focus on steps to ensure that computer science education is identified as a critical component of education policy in the U.S. at both federal and state levels.

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