"The National Science Foundation has awarded $1 million to a Portland State University dean and some colleagues in order to “diversify computer science.”
Associate Dean of Engineering and Computer Science James Hook...
The dean added that white males are “preparation privileged” — they’re “disproportionately exposed to computer technology and encouraged to pursue CS from a young age.”Due to this privilege, high school computer science classes witness a “both wonderful and terrible interaction” between these “enthusiastic, over-prepared, [and] privileged” white boys and their teacher.
Hook says such interactions “might accidentally exclude other students.”...
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