Underemployed IT Workers Teach, Learn in Georgia High Schools

In Georgia, unemployed IT professionals and computing teachers are joining forces to help boost the number and diversity of the state’s computer science students. Operation Reboot http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ , a three-year program that launched last fall, seeks to put 30 experienced IT workers (10 per year) in high school classrooms to share their expertise and learn how to teach.

Run by the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Computing, the program comes at a time when the recession has forced schools to lay off numerous teachers, and the demand for qualified workers in the IT field continues to rise.

By Russell Nichols, Staff Writer

Full Story: http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/762659

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