BY Ariel Schwartz, Fast Company
Earlier this week, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the City University of New York and IBM are creating a computer science-focused school in the city that spans from grade 9 to 14 (students leave with an associate’s degree). The high school, which will be the first to go through grade 14, has a valuable guarantee for students: graduates will be first in line for jobs at IBM. But graduating students will be equipped to do far more than work at Big Blue, says Stanley Litow, IBM’s Vice President of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs. “The idea is to create a new [educational] model for science, technology, engineering, and math–areas where companies are aggressively hiring. If you look at hiring requirements, you won’t see a huge amount of difference in a lot of entry-level IT jobs.” So students will, theoretically, have the skills to work any entry-level IT position.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1692372/ibm-reveals-details-about-its-nyc-high-school
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