Welcome to the Reader‘s weekday news briefing for Wednesday, December 13, 2017.
Chicago Public Schools students will learn coding thanks to Apple’s “Everyone Can Code” initiative
Apple wants to teach coding to every Chicago Public Schools student under its “Everyone Can Code” initiative, Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook told USA Today. “We’ve fundamentally concluded instead of just waiting and going into the four-year school system and seeing how many women and minorities are graduating in coding, which is abysmal, that we had to back up,” Cook said. “[We have to go] all the way into elementary school and junior high school in order to fundamentally change the diversity.” [USA Today]
