Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing

摘要: The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low, according to recent surveys. And relatively few American Latino/a high school students receive the kind institutional encouragement, educational opportunities, preparation needed for them choose as a field study profession. In Stuck Shallow End, Jane Margolis looks at daily experiences teachers three Los Angeles public schools: an overcrowded urban school, math magnet well-funded affluent neighborhood. She finds insidious "virtual segregation" that maintains inequality. Two schools studied offer only low-level, how-to (keyboarding, cutting pasting) introductory computing classes. third wealthiest offers courses, but very color enroll them. race gap science, finds, one example way are denied wide range occupational futures. traces interplay structures (such factors course offerings student-to-counselor ratios) belief systemsincluding teachers' assumptions about their students' themselves. End story how inequality reproduced Americaand teachers, given necessary tools, can change system.