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Community colleges: a resource for increasing equity and inclusion in computer science education

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Challenging a simplistic pathway metaphor.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 12
      December 2017
      91 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3167461
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