{"id":45486,"date":"2014-08-06T01:40:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T01:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/many_countries_have_made_computer_programming_mandatory_for_k-12_but_the_us\/"},"modified":"2014-08-06T01:40:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T01:40:31","slug":"many_countries_have_made_computer_programming_mandatory_for_k-12_but_the_us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45486","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ Digits) Many Countries have made computer programming mandatory for K-12 but the US is trailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting this September, every single K-12 student in Great Britain will start taking classes in computer programming. That is, kids at the age of five will take programming, and they won\u2019t stop until they\u2019re 16 at least. A majority of these children will be using the free online learning platform Codecademy, says co-founder Zach Sims. Ditto France, Estonia and Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<p>In China, Codecademy, which has programming lessons contributed by more than 100,000 people from around the world, has been cloned multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in the U.S., where education is controlled by the states, fewer than 20 even recognize computer science as a science; the rest consider it an elective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2014\/08\/05\/more-on-computer-programming-train-kids-early\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting this September, every single K-12 student in Great Britain will start taking classes in computer programming. That is, kids at the age of five will take programming, and they won\u2019t stop until they\u2019re 16 at least. A majority of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45486\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,101,111,119,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-children","category-education","category-globalization","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}