Computer science education at the pre-college level in the United States is in crisis, and there is enormous potential impact on our discipline, academic institutions, and industry. Despite the pressing need for our students to learn foundational computer science skills, course enrollments are dropping at the secondary and post-secondary levels, and in many states, pre-college computer science is in jeopardy of disappearing altogether. The number of young women and minority students studying computing is at an all-time low. The Computer Science Teacher's Association (CSTA) has been created to address this crisis on a national scale. Through collaboration with leaders from all levels of education, government, industry, and partnering non-profit organizations, CSTA has begun reframing computer science within K-12 education as a true science. It has launched national programs to conduct research, develop curriculum standards, provide professional development, and create and disseminate new resources for teachers nationwide.

The Computer Science Teachers Association is a membership organization that supports and promotes the teaching of computer science and other computing disciplines. CSTA provides opportunities for K-12 teachers and students to better understand the computing disciplines and to prepare themselves more successfully to teach and learn.

CSTA will provide a voice for computer science educators, both nationally and internationally, representing their interests at all levels of the educational system and with the state and federal authorities whose policies impact educational content, practice, and funding.

CSTA will work with teachers nationally and internationally to build a community of educators committed to educational excellence.

CSTA will work with teachers to address critical needs for professional development and for the creation and distribution of key curricular, teaching, and resource materials.

CSTA will provide a bridge between high school educators, university educators, and the high tech industry.

Through its commitment to research, CSTA will help to provide new data that will allow realistic, classroom-based, learning-focused solutions to current problems in computer science education.