Closing the technology acheivement gap

It appears that the number of jobs being offered in the technology sector are not decreasing, in fact, quite the opposite effect is taking place. With reforms on environmental agendas and an increased need for technology to compete on a global markets and accommodate an exponentially increasing population, technology seems to be a pretty safe choice for a career path. However, when multiple high schools were looked at in L.A, many of them did not offer any technology or computer classes beyond the basics of typing and simple computer skills and many of the students were not aware of the skills they could learn and the jobs they could get by learning more advanced technology skills, such as problem solving, web-based design and computer programming. Another charter school offered more advanced classes but had an extremely low enrollment of minority and female students. Jane Margoliz found several factors that influenced the students to be discouraged to wanting to take technology classes. Often, teachers and guidance counsellors discriminate and do not encourage minority students and females to take advanced technology classes. Low income students also do not always have ready access to computers at home, so they are not as familiar with them as students from higher income families and lack of administrator support in training teachers to be technologically skilled enough to teach the material. By remedying these issues, Margoliz managed to over double enrollment of minority and females in computer science classes as well as to get intercity L.A schools to add advanced computer science classes.