The wide computer science divide among races

When it comes to the digital divide, often the focus is on how lack of internet service and basic technology will hurt students’ academic ­performance. But as an educator at one of the nation’s elite historically Black colleges, I see another negative effect of the digital divide: racial disparities in the field of computer science.

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