What will they know? Standards in the high school computer science curriculum

The ACM's Computer Science Teacher Association (CSTA) published a Computer Science curriculum recommendation for K-12 in 2003 and delivered its most recent revision in 2011. The International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE) produces the National Educational Technology Standards for Computer Science Educators (NETS-CSE) for secondary school educators. In 2010, an initiative to standardized K-12 curriculum, called the Common Core, developed standards for several core K-12 subjects. Common core in this context pertains to the core topics that every student should obtain to be successful in college or a career. These are broadly divided into "English Language arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and technical Subjects" and "Mathematics." Computing is left out of this common core. An examination of the CSTA, NETS-CSE and Common Core Mathematics (CCM) at the secondary level is made in this paper. The purpose is to highlight commonalities and disparities, providing some insight into related high school curriculum for computer science educators at the undergraduate level.