Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Guest Host: Rebecca Roberts
American companies dominate the software and IT marketplace, but will that last? Educators and industry chiefs say America lacks a good farm system for training computer programmers. Tech Tuesday examines efforts to create and educate our country’s next generation of computer scientists.
Guests
- Maggie Johnson Director of Education, Google
- Janice Cuny Director of the Broadening Participation in Computing Program at the National Science Foundation
- Jane Margolis Senior Researcher, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies; Author of "Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race and Computing" (2008)
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