There are far more students interested in studying computer science than there are kids who have taken a computer science class. And that gap is especially pronounced for Black and Hispanic students, ...

(Editor’s note: This is the eighth of about a dozen student essays we’ll be publishing for this round of Education Lab’s Student Voices program, which is partnering this year with Project Homeless.

Binary by plastic fish. Programmed instructions by blindfold. It was an unconventional way to teach the young Auburn-Washburn USD 437 students about the basics of computer science. But then again, ...