By Alyson Klein, Education Week, July 24, 2019.
We've all seen the hype: Advances in technology, including increased automation, are likely to reshape the workforce over the next two decades. So how should K-12 schools be responding to that?
The answer depends, in part, on the race of the person you're asking, according to a report published this week by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington-based organization that aims to improve the socioeconomic status and civic engagement of African Americans.
African Americans, Latinos, and Asians are more likely than whites to believe that schools should be required to teach computer science to prepare children for the jobs of the future. Twenty-five percent of African Americans supported mandating such courses, compared with 16 percent of whites, 23 percent of Latinos, and 24 percent of Asians.
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