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Department of Education updates board on computer science standards, PAC Act grants and teacher training
Summary
Stephen King, the Department of Education's computer science standards consultant, briefed the board on state standards, teacher training funded by the PAC Act, the status of a computer science endorsement and the growing need for earlier K‑12 computational thinking instruction.
Stephen King, computer science academic standards consultant with the Kansas Department of Education, updated the Kansas State Board of Education on Sept. 10 about the state of computer science education and related policy and funding efforts.
King told the board that Kansas adopted K–12 computer science standards in 2019 and that the state has worked to create both academic and career-and-technical education pathways while distinguishing programming from the broader field of computer science. “Programming is one part of computer science,” he said, adding that computational thinking spans grades and disciplines.
He briefed the board on the PAC Act…
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