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The pool of test-takers for the Advanced Placement computer science exam is still overwhelmingly white and male, according to data from the College Board, which administers the AP tests. The number of students taking the AP computer science exam increased by about 24 percent from last year, up to 46,000 U.S. students, according to numbers released this fall. That's less growth than the exam showed the year before (it was up about 26 percent then), but still more growth than any other AP course except physics. Maryland was the state with the most test-takers overall by population… The College Board recently released even more detailed demographic data about test-takers in each state. Barbara Ericson, the director of computing outreach and a senior research scientist at Georgia Tech, went through the data, as she does every year, to see among other things, how girls and African-Americans are faring in computer science across the states.
Read the full article here: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2015/11/no_african-american_students_2015_AP_computer_science_exam_nine_states.html
