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[quote=Anonymous][quote=pettifogger][quote=Anonymous]Example curricula if you want to take a look: 
https://curriculum.idsucla.org/scope/ 
https://hsdatascience.youcubed.org/curriculum/

Could offer intro level + more rigorous option. 
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These look promising (the first link seems more rigorous than the second, but I could not see as much details in the second). [b]One key point: I believe all of these skills cannot be covered in just one class and should be part of a series of classes[/b], if we seriously want to students to develop them and be equipped to work with data. The logical approach would be to expand the CS departments of high schools (which is already badly needed in many many schools) and add a data science series of classes which students could choose to take. One important prerequisite that should be developed would be a semester class in discrete mathematics starting from the ground up (i.e probability followed by statistics, as well as any other important math that kids do not get in the normal classes, i.e basic number theory/graph theory).

One big issue is that it will quite difficult to find teachers who can effectively teach these classes. I don't believe our current teachers are well equipped to teach data science skills (the closest may be some of the existing CS teachers, but they will need to learn some of the math/stats needed to be able to successfully deliver data science classes).[/quote]

Yes, I believe that is the "goal" of math updates. To add data/stats concepts early on and build over the years. Agree that a series of classes & boosting CS depts (and teacher skills) would make sense.

The 2nd curriculum had more details under "resources". It's very similar to the first from what I could gather. 
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