Gayithri Jayathirtha, assistant professor Curriculum & Instruction, has been awarded a $2 million National Science Foundation grant.
The two-year project is titled Researching Equity, Access, & Learning in Computer Science Education (REAL-CS). From the abstract:
"In this CS for All Research-Practice Partnership project in the High School strand, REAL-CS aims to work with school districts across the United States to create systemic change within high school computer science by iteratively designing, implementing, and studying generative efforts to broaden participation in computing in collaboration with teachers. Building on 15 years of development, research, and implementation in schools across the nation, this project focuses on the Exploring Computer Science (ECS) introductory course and associated curricular (co)-development and professional development."
Jayathirtha is a co-PI on the project with scholars from the University of Oregon and the University of California, Los Angeles.
