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- ISBN 9780393881943
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Sep 2026
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Fourth graders doing Google-branded coding lessons. Amazon schooling seventh graders on its warehouse robots. High school AP computing courses from Microsoft and Apple. Over the last thirteen years, the tech industry has helped spread computer science and artificial intelligence education in American schools at astonishing speed and scale.
In Coding Kids, award-winning The New York Times reporter Natasha Singer tells this story by chronicling the success of Code.org, a nonprofit backed by Big Tech companies whose lessons have reached tens of millions of children. Singer shows how giants like Google and Microsoft used their colossal reach to sell schools on industry visions of computer science and AI education. Singer also profiles compelling educators fighting for a broader vision of computer science, one that not only studies algorithms and app-making but also asks students to grapple with the societal consequences of powerful tech corporations and their disruptive digital tools.
Natasha Singer covers technology in schools for the New York Times. In 2019, she was part of a Times team whose tech coverage won a George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
