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$1-Billion Effort to Rethink Computer-Science Education at MIT Sparks Interest—and Protests

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It’s turning computer science into a lingua franca,” said Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at MIT, in an interview. “I I think students will soon all learn English, Spanish and Python.” For the MIT administration, as for Schwarzman, money trumps concerns for human rights and economic justice,” the authors argue.

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