Should Students Be Able to Replace Foreign Language With Coding?

Michigan is the latest state to consider allowing students to replace foreign language classes with computer coding courses. But advocates for both subjects have raised red flags about conflating computer language and human language. A recent report argues that computer science should be taught as a core science, not just as a set of codes and activities. As more states and legislators get interested in coding, it's likely we've not seen the last of the arguments that computer code is a language.