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Why so few African American and Latino/a students study computer
science: updated edition of a book that reveals the dynamics of
inequality in American schools. The number of African Americans and
Latinx receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer
science is disproportionately low. And relatively few African
American and Latinx high school students receive the kind of
institutional encouragement, educational opportunities, and
preparation needed for them to choose computer science as a field
of study and profession. In Stuck in the Shallow End, Jane Margolis
and coauthors look at the daily experiences of students and
teachers in three Los Angeles public high schools: an overcrowded
urban high school, a math and science magnet school, and a
well-funded school in an affluent neighborhood. They find an
insidious "virtual segregation" that maintains inequality. The race
gap in computer science, Margolis discovers, is one example of the
way students of color are denied a wide range of occupational and
educational futures.Stuck in the Shallow End is a story of how
inequality is reproduced in America-and how students and teachers,
given the necessary tools, can change the system. Since the 2008
publication of Stuck in the Shallow End, the book has found an
eager audience among teachers, school administrators, and
academics. This updated edition offers a new preface detailing the
progress in making computer science accessible to all, a new
postscript, and discussion questions (coauthored by Jane Margolis
and Joanna Goode).
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