Modern Literacy: Teaching Elementary Students How to Code

Mickayla Stogsdill
Jul 22, 2017 · 2 min read

Below is a policy plan written by Denizhan Pak and Mickayla Stogsdill calling for Knox County Schools in Tennessee to add coding classes to school curriculums to prepare the next generation for the growing technology field. Read the whole piece below:

Denizhan Pak and Mickayla Stogsdill at a debate state championship winning first in their respective divisions together!

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If you’d like to see more policy ideas and solutions, you can follow Mickayla’s policy work here and Denizhan’s coding work here.

If you’d like to reach out to us personally, Denizhan can be emailed at dpak1@vols.utk.edu and Mickayla at mstogsdi@vols.utk.edu

The original can be found here on Roosevelt Institute’s website.

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