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Providing equitable access to computing education

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Seeking the best measures to reach advantaged and less-advantaged students equally.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 8
      August 2018
      83 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3241891
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