November 2, 2023
Jelani Nelson, ISSI Advisory Committee member, discusses the recent push for high school data science courses as alternatives for traditional math in this video of his recent talk at The Ohio State University. In the last several years, the California Department of Education and other stakeholders in the state began promoting pathways through high school math, especially via taking data science courses as alternatives to traditional math. The push for high school data science has since caught on nationally, despite opposition from data science scholars who argue that these courses provide inadequate preparation for college and career readiness in quantitative fields, including in data science.