The Washington Post

The success of the Hour of Code initiative has motivated founders Hadi Partovi and Ali Partovi to harness the momentum and use it to expand computer science education in elementary and secondary schools. More than 20 million people around the world took part in the Hour of Code, 17 million of them in the United States, half of which were female. The Hour of Code was inspired by the fact that of the U.S.'s 42,000 schools, only about 3,400 offer computer science classes. "There's an assumption because students are using this technology, they have the knowledge to build this technology, and they don't," says Computer Science Teachers Association executive director Chris Stephenson. The Partovi brothers raised $10 million to create code.org, a nonprofit organization aimed at changing policy on the federal, state, and local levels to expand access to computer science in K-12. To read further, please visit http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/successful-hour-of-code-computer-tutorials-prompts-effort-to-change-school-policies/2014/01/14/f224f112-7d5f-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html.