There are no lockers in the hallways at Beaver Country Day School. Instead, backpacks and tote bags line either side of the floor while students step over them during the mid-morning rush to class. Nearly everyone is carrying a laptop.
“There used to be lockers, but nobody was really using them,” a passing staff member tells me with a shrug.
The private school, for grades six through twelve, sits in a quiet nook of Chestnut Hill, Mass. — a suburb sandwiched a few miles between, and directly below, Cambridge and downtown Boston. It’s not far from where Mark Zuckerberg built a world-changing social network from his Harvard University dorm room just nine years ago.
Two weeks ago, Beaver became the first school in the United States to implement computer coding into each of its classes.
via Coding the Curriculum: How High Schools Are Reprogramming Their Classes.