How Tech Education Fails Disadvantaged Kids
Lack of access to computers, internet access, and tech training leaves many children at a lifelong disadvantage. Nonprofits are working to address this education inequality with programs ranging from training in game development to basic computer use. One example of this kind of program is a new pilot program in Georgia that will use game-development software to teach computer science. “So many students come from disadvantaged backgrounds that don’t have a chance to learn something like this,” Mete Akcaoglu, a professor of Georgia Southern University whose team received a grant for the program, said in a phone interview....