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The U.S. will add 1.2 million new computer-science-related jobs by 2022, the The Department of Labor estimates. Yet, "we're graduating proportionately fewer computer science majors than we did in the 1980s, and the number of students signing up for Advanced Placement computer science has flatlined," 

"There's a whole host of complicated reasons why," Raja adds, "from boring curricula to a lack of qualified teachers to the fact that in most states computer science doesn't count toward graduation requirements. But should we worry?"

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The U.S. will add 1.2 million new computer-science-related jobs by 2022, the The Department of Labor estimates. Yet, “we’re graduating proportionately fewer computer science majors than we did in the 1980s, and the number of students signing up for Advanced Placement computer science has flatlined,” writes Tasneem Raja in Mother Jones. “There’s a whole host…

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