by Akhtar Badshah, Huffington Post
The program is called Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS). In the Puget Sound region, where the salary for a first-year teacher with a computer science background is approximately $42,000 and a first-year technology industry job is $79,500, the TEALS program connects high-tech professionals who possess deep computer science knowledge and expertise with high school classrooms that do not. And many do not. Even though Washington is Microsoft’s home state, only 275 AP computer science tests were taken by Washington students in 2010. Among these, only seven were Hispanic, and five were African American. The University of Washington graduated just 160 students with computer sciences degrees last year. Wang, who holds a B.S. in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master’s in education from Harvard University, takes these numbers as a personal challenge.
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