{"374901":{"#nid":"374901","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why there\u2019s no such thing as an \u2018F\u2019 in computer science","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s not clear exactly why kids don\u2019t pursue STEM fields in general, and shy away from computer science in droves.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey will give you myriad reasons, among them that the work just isn\u2019t interesting, that the cool kids don\u2019t do it, and fear \u2013 fear it\u2019s too hard, fear they\u2019ll be ridiculed as \u201cnerds,\u201d fear of being exposed as an intellectual fraud, or ironically, as the \u201ctoo smart kid,\u201d fear of failure.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-09 16:37:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:54","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"initiative leads","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/content\/theres-no-thing-f-computer-science_18590\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-12-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-12-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}