![]() ![]() It’s time for American schools to recognize a new pillar: computer science. These are educational pillars that students have learned for centuries. A new pillarĮvery school in America teaches kids how to dissect a frog or that molecules are made of atoms. If a school can afford to teach biology, history, chemistry and foreign languages, it should teach computer science too. We’d argue that computer science is part of the solution: it motivates kids to learn other subjects. As software is taking over the world, a rudimentary grasp of how it works is critical for every future lawyer, doctor, journalist, politician and more.Īmerican schools are struggling to teach basic math and English, and skeptics may worry that we can’t afford to teach anything else. Every child can benefit from a strong foundation in problem-solving. ![]() Tech jobs aside, teaching kids basic computer science is valuable no matter what career path they might choose. If hiring computer programmers is challenging for Silicon Valley, it’s an even greater challenge for every other industry in America. Today, 67 percent of software jobs are outside the tech industry. It’s about the tech industry helping the rest of America. This is not about helping the tech industry. In the 1980s, 37 percent of students studying computer science were female. In the era of 1950s supercomputers, women were the pioneers in computer science. Meanwhile, in America, only one in 10 schools even teach computer science - a number that has declined in the last decade. The UK and Australia will require it soon. In China, every high school student must take computer science to graduate. Yet, ironically, most Americans are denied access to this dream. Why should opportunity be available to only a lucky few?Ĭoding embodies the American Dream. By the time we turned 30, we’d each co-founded our own startups, both of which were acquired for a combined value of over a billion dollars.Īlmost every Silicon Valley success story - from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - begins the same way: with a gift, an opportunity to learn how to code. We paid our way through college by teaching computer science to other students. By the time we moved to America as teenagers, we were proficient programmers and landed summer jobs that paid several times what other high schoolers could earn. ![]()
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