MARYSVILLE, Wash. — Moving her finger over the laptop trackpad, 6-year-old Lauren Meek drags and drops a block of code to build a set of instructions. She clicks the “run” button and watches as the ...

On a recent afternoon a 3-year-old boy sat in front of a computer terminal in a corner of the classroom of the Hope Community Kindergarten. The number 6 flashed on the screen. He deliberated a moment, ...