Replacing the Foreign Language Graduation Requirement with Programming

Originally published at: https://eduk8.me/2019/04/replacing-the-foreign-language-graduation-requirement-with-programming/

Maryland’s legislature is considering a bill to allow computer coding courses to fulfill the foreign language graduation requirement for high school. A similar bill passed the Florida State Senate in 2017 (but was ultimately rejected by the full Legislature), and a federal version proposed by Senators Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, and Maria Cantwell, Democrat…