Stuck in the shallow end : education, race, and computing / Jane Margolis with Rachel Estrella, Joanna Goode, Jennifer Jellison Holme, and Kim Nao.

Author
Margolis, Jane [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Updated edition.
Published/​Created
Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2017]
Description
xviii, 225 pages ; 23 cm

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    The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low. 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 and coauthors look 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. They find an insidious "virtual segregation" that maintains inequality. The race gap in computer science, Margolis discovers, is one example of the way students of color are denied a wide range of occupational and educational futures. Stuck in the Shallow End is a story of how inequality is reproduced in America -- and how students and teachers, given the necessary tools, can change the system. Since the 2008 publication of Stuck in the Shallow End, the book has found an eager audience among teachers, school administrators, and academics. This updated edition offers a new preface detailing the progress in making computer science accessible to all, a new postscript, and discussion questions (coauthored by Jane Margolis and Joanna Goode -- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction : The myth of technology as the "great equalizer"
    • An unlikely metaphor : the color line in swimming and computer science
    • Technology rich, but curriculum poor
    • Normalizing the racial divide in high school computer science
    • Claimed spaces : "preparatory privilege" and high school computer science
    • Teachers as potential change agents : balancing equity reform and systemic change
    • Technology policy illusions
    • Conclusion : "The best and the brightest"?
    ISBN
    • 9780262533461 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0262533464 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016036112
    OCLC
    956947699
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