Since its founding in 2013, Code.org has been intertwined with Microsoft. Co-founder and CEO Hadi Partovi, a former Microsoft intern and then engineer, launched Code.org so every child in the U.S.

This year has seen the highest increase in the number of U.S. high schools offering a foundational computer science course since 2018, with more than half of U.S. high schools now offering one, but ...