Spanish, French, German — or JavaScript? An Albuquerque state senator is pushing for computer programming to be counted as a foreign language under New Mexico’s public school academic requirements.

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(TNS) -- Legislation by Kentucky Sen. David Givens on computer programming no longer proposes that the subject be credited as a foreign language credit in high school. Givens, R-Greensburg, said ...

Legislators in Florida have put forth a bill that would encourage high school students to take computer science classes by allowing them to earn foreign language credits after obtaining technical ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would count computer programming classes toward fulfilling foreign-language requirements in public schools. The goal is to enhance ...

Two legislators from Washington State are proposing a bill that will likely get a cheer from techie high schoolers: They want to allow computer science (as in, programming) classes to satisfy in-state ...

A refereed publication, The Modern Language Journal is dedicated to promoting scholarly exchange among teachers and researchers of all modern foreign languages and English as a second language. This ...

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