I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

However, once you read this, the fact that you read it is now history, too. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Like many, I’ve repeated George Santayana’s quotes, but ...

For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as effortless sounding as the Hour of Code (offered by Code.org) and as obviously ambitious as Code Year ...