Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: In 2019’s The Two Codes Your Kids Need to Know, the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman reported that of all the skills and knowledge the College Board tested young people for, it determined that mastering “two codes” — computer science and the U.S. Constitution — were the most correlated to success in college and in life.
On Wednesday, Rhode Island announced it’s teaming with the College Board to ensure schoolkids study the “Two Codes”…
The press release says they’re “launching a partnership to advance two key educational goals: understanding how the U.S. Constitution works and how technology can power solutions to problems facing our world… Each school will identify two teacher leads, a Computer Science teacher and a Government and Politics teacher, who will coordinate their school’s participation in the program. The leads will receive a stipend of $1,500 per year, and the College Board will provide a broad range of support for the training of teachers and implementation of the effort.”
The College Board’s Chief of Global Policy and External Relations says in the announcement that “It’s not enough to be users of technology; this generation of students needs to guide it and make it work for democracy.”
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