EdSurge: ​​Is Data Science the New Coding?

By: Nadia Tamez-Robledo

Data Science for everyone was recently highlighted in an article by EdSurge! The article features our very own Steve Levitt and Jeffrey Severts and recounts how a Freakonomics Radio episode focused on how to ​​better prepare students for our modern economy began a movement.

“We feel like this is a good foundational education that prepares people for life,” says Jeffrey Severts, co-founder and executive director of the nonprofit Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change at the University of Chicago. The center houses Data Science for Everyone, an initiative that provides teaching resources on and promotes data science curriculum in K-12 schools.”

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