UMBC ebiquity » Computer Science http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:29:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Computer Science cant get no respect in High School http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/11/05/computer-science-cant-get-no-respect-in-high-school/ http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/11/05/computer-science-cant-get-no-respect-in-high-school/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:40:27 +0000 Tim Finin http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=2637

This post on the CACM Blog caught my eye and shows that we still have a long way to go before computing is taken seriously in US secondary education, let alone K-12.

AP CS no Longer Counts for High School Graduation in Georgia (for now)

“Up until September, Georgia and Texas were the (only) two states in the US that accepted a computer science course as fulfilling high school graduation requirements. In Texas, the Advanced Placement Computer Science (AP CS) course fulfilled a mathematics requirement. In Georgia, it fulfilled a fourth science course requirement. As of October, however, Georgia has rescinded that decision. … ”

I wonder how other countries treat computing and informatics in primary and secondary education.

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