BY ELLEN ULLMAN, eSchool News
A Q&A with Mashea Ashton, the founder/CEO of a D.C. charter middle school that’s bridging the racial achievement gap in tech. There’s a widening technology achievement gap for minorities, despite blacks and Hispanics having more interest in learning computer science. So why is the field so dominated by whites? School News recently spoke with Mashea Ashton, who founded Washington, D.C.’s first computer science middle school last year in a struggling, historically black community to help bridge the technology achievement gap. Today, 99 percent of the students at Digital Pioneers Academy (DPA) are on a free lunch program. Ashton, who previously worked with Senator Cory Booker to create more educational options in Newark, N.J., talked about how innovative educators can help solve the racial achievement gap.
https://www.eschoolnews.com/2019/05/10/closing-technology-achievement-gap/
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