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Jane Margolis

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Jane Margolis is a social scientist and faculty member at the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education and Information Studies[1] who studies why so few African American, Latino, and female students are learning computer science.[2]

Education

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Jane earned a A.L.M in Psychology from Harvard Extension School in 1985 and an Ed.D. from Harvard University in 1990.[3]

Recognitions

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She was recognized by President Barack Obama on February 1, 2016, as one of nine Computer Science Champions of Change for her work to democratize access to computer science education.[4][5]

Books

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  • Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (with Allan Fisher, MIT Press, 2001)[6]
  • Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing (with Rachel Estrella, Joanna Goode, Jennifer Jellison Holme and Kim Nao, MIT Press, 2008)[7]

References

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  1. ^ Singer, Natasha (June 27, 2017). "How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms". The New York Times. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  2. ^ Harmon, Joanie (February 1, 2018). "Educating for equity and access in computer science". UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  3. ^ "Jane Margolis". UCLA Directory. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
  4. ^ Jones, Stephani (February 2016). "Helping America Code: A Day with Computer Science Champions of Change". The White House. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
  5. ^ "Our Researchers". Exploring Computer Science. December 9, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  6. ^ Reviews of Unlocking the Clubhouse:
    • Brown, Karla (December 2002), "Review", Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 30 (2): 202, ProQuest 220967067
    • Kramarae, Cheris (Summer 2003), NWSA Journal, vol. 15 (2 ed.), The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 207–210, JSTOR 4316992
    • Fountain, J.E. (2004), IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 23 (2): 6–9, doi:10.1109/mtas.2004.1304381, S2CID 30072276{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Ogan, Christina L. (January 2004), The Information Society, 20 (1): 75–76, doi:10.1080/01972240490270094, S2CID 31305402{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Russell, Joyce E A. (Summer 2004), "Review", Personnel Psychology, 57 (2): 498–501
    • Roan, A. M. (2005), Labour & Industry, 15 (3): 125–127{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Stoilescu, Dorian (2010), "Review", Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 3 (1)
    • Davis, Janet (October 2012), "GHC Spotlight: Jane Margolis, Unlocking the Clubhouse 10 Years Later", ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 44 (4): 3, doi:10.1145/2398328.2398329, S2CID 3209317
  7. ^ Reviews of Stuck in the Shallow End: