Stuck in the Shallow End

By :"Jane Margolis","Rachel Estrella","Joanna Goode","Jennifer Jellison Holme","Kim Nao"

Published on 2010-02-26 by MIT Press

Category :"Education"

The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low, according to recent surveys. And relatively few African American and Latino/a high school students receive the kind of institutional encouragement, educational opportunities, and preparation needed for them to choose computer science as a field of study and profession. In Stuck in the Shallow End, Jane Margolis looks at the daily experiences of students and teachers in three Los Angeles public high schools: an overcrowded urban high school, a math and science magnet school, and a well-funded school in an affluent neighborhood. She finds an insidious \

Stuck in the Shallow End

Lenght : 216

Language : en

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