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What Needs to Happen for More Women, Minorities to Get Into Computer Science?

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A PayScale report ranked computer science careers among some of the most in-demand and lucrative professions in the United States. But recent figures on high-school students who took the College Board's Advanced Placement Computer Science exam last year paint a picture of a field that is failing to progress with the times.



For one, there were two states -- Mississippi and Montana -- where not a single female, African American or Hispanic student took the AP Computer Science exam. In fact, in Montana, only 11 students total took the exam, as not one high school in the state offered courses in AP computer science. Perhaps most alarming: In Wyoming, no students took the Computer Science exam at all. - Entrepreneur.com

 






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