NPR Ed – Meg Anderson
“Starting soon, students will be able to use federal loans to pay for certain coding boot camps, the immersive web development courses that promise to make students into programming experts in just a few months. The experimental program will allow traditional accredited colleges to partner with coding boot camps and other short-term certification programs. Because they’re attached to colleges, the U.S. Department of Education will be able to evaluate their effectiveness…Although the courses are unaccredited, the people behind them say the price is worth it. They say 90 percent or more of graduates are landing jobs.”(more)