Getting High School, College Students Interested in CS

If I told you only 4% of all high school students in the U.S. were taking science or math classes, you'd be aghast. If 96% of students were not getting science or math classes, you could reasonably argue it does not exist in any practical sense. Over the last few months, several reports provided new insights about U.S. high school computer science (CS): California and Texas are two largest states based on U.S. population, but we can't generalize to everyone based on those states. We don't have data on who is taking CS across the U.S., due to our state-centric, decentralized model of primary and secondary school education. California and Texas are among the leaders in implementing CS education.