Education Stories

Study: Alphabetical Order of Surnames May Affect Grading 72
Feds Hit Coding Boot Camp With Big Fine For Allegedly Conning Students 38
Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI 115
Harvard Reinstates Standardized Testing Requirement 84
Code.org Launches AI Teaching Assistant For Grades 6-10 In Stanford Partnership 16
America's Chip Renaissance Needs Workers 117
Texas Will Use Computers To Grade Written Answers On This Year's STAAR Tests 41
Professors Are Now Using AI to Grade Essays. Are There Ethical Concerns? 102
AI's Impact on CS Education Likened to Calculator's Impact on Math Education 102
Business Schools Are Going All In on AI 39
Chronic Student Absenteeism Soars Across US 119
Google Teams with 'Highlights', Shows How Goofus and Gallant Use the Internet 19
Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem 112
Indiana Becomes 9th State To Make CS a High School Graduation Requirement 42
Nvidia Founder Tells Stanford Students Their High Expectations May Make It Hard For Them To Succeed 98
Who Uses Legacy Admissions? 62
U. of Texas at Austin Will Return To Standardized Test Requirement 93
How $138B in US Student Loans Were Cancelled - Roughly One-Third of Planned Amount 162
Teachers Are Embracing ChatGPT-Powered Grading 121
Screen Time Robs Average Toddler of Hearing 1,000 Words Spoken By Adult a Day, Study Finds 86
In a First, US Students Will Take the SAT Entirely Online 76
'Communications of the ACM' Is Now Open Access 25
Half of College Graduates Are Working High School Level Jobs 266
$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School 85
What Happened After Peter Thiel Paid 271 Students to Drop Out of College? 114
New York Will Start Requiring Credentials for All CS Teachers 48
Yale Reinstates Standardized Test Requirement For Admission 74
Algebra To Return To San Francisco Middle Schools This Fall 97
NYC Fails Controversial Remote Learning Snow Day 'Test,' Public Schools Chancellor Says 60
Google Scholar is Manipulatable 16
California Bill Would Require Computer Science For High School Graduation 202
Dartmouth College Reinstates the SAT 197
How CS Students Go From Code.org Into Its Founders' Mentorship/Angel Investment Fund, 'Neo' 14
UK University To Beam in Hologram Lecturers 16
OpenAI Announces First Partnership With a University 21
'A Groundbreaking Study Shows Kids Learn Better On Paper, Not Screens. Now What?' 130
'Student Should Have a Healthy-Looking BMI': How Universities Bend Over Backwards To Accommodate Food Delivery Robots 125
Should Chatbots Teach Your Children? 94
The Billionaires Spending a Fortune To Lure Scientists Away From Universities 77
What Counts as Plagiarism? Harvard President's Resignation Sparks Debate 119
Chicago Public Schools Lost Over $20 Million In Electronics In One Year, Report Says 163
US News Makes Money From Some of Its Biggest Critics: Colleges 29
After Reports of His Own Wife's Plagiarism, Bill Ackman Threatens Plagiarism Reviews For All MIT Faculty 293
UCLA Will Transform Dead Westside Mall Into Major Science Innovation Center 23
Nobel Prize Winner Cautions on Rush Into STEM 113
US Department of Education Spending $4 Million To Teach 3,450 Kids CS Using Minecraft 38
UK Students Launch Barclays 'Career Boycott' Over Bank's Climate Policies 47
Are Phones Making the World's Students Dumber? 123
Microsoft President Brad Smith Quietly Leaves Board of Nonprofit Code.org 4
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Methods To Stop Digital Surveillance In Schools? 115
Elon Musk Is Funding a New School In Austin, Texas 167
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Help Teachers Incorporate AI Into CS Education 16
Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests 55
Harvard Accused of Bowing to Meta By Ousted Disinformation Scholar in Whistleblower Complaint 148
Reactions Continue to Viral Video that Led to Calls for College Presidents to Resign 414
Harvard, MIT and UPenn's Presidents Should 'Resign in Disgrace', Bill Ackman Says 503
US Students' Math Scores Plunge In Global Education Assessment 131
CS Teachers Panic as Replit Pulls the Plug on Educational IDE 66
How 'Hour of Code' Will Teach Students About Issues with AI 17
America is Seeing a 'Dramatic Rise' in Home Schooling 378
Code.org Presses Washington To Make Computer Science a High School Graduation Requirement 95
ACT Test Scores For US Students Drop To a 30-Year Low 102
Who Runs the Best US Schools? It May Be the Defense Department 94
States Are Calling For More K-12 CS Classes. Now They Need the Teachers. 114
Hundreds of US Schools Hit By Potentially Organized Swatting Hoaxes, Report Says 60
Tech-Backed Code.org Picks 'Creativity With AI' As Theme For 2023 Hour of Code 3
New York Bans Facial Recognition In Schools 22
'Code.org In Farsi' To Bring Tech-Backed Nonprofit's K-12 CS Curricula To Iran 34
US News' 2024 College Ranking Boosts Public Universities 28
Textbook Publishers Sue Shadow Library LibGen For Copyright Infringement 30
Sweden Brings More Books and Handwriting Practice Back To Its Tech-Heavy Schools 26
Is Gen Z Giving Up on College? 404
'Staggering' Education Inequality Caused During Pandemic by Overreliance on Tech, Says UN Agency 215
'Security Concerns' Caused Three-Day Internet Outage at the University of Michigan Last Week 19
CalTech To Accept Khan Academy Success As Option For Admission 35
Microsoft Makes Some Certification Exams Open Book 37
Is 'CS In Every School' the 2024 Presidential Campaign's 'Chicken In Every Pot'? 104
Why Fewer University Students Are Studying Mandarin 69
The Nation's Largest School District Is Making Virtual School a Permanent Option 68
Schools are Now Teaching About ChatGPT and AI So Their Students Aren't Left Behind 73
Colleges Spend Like There's No Tomorrow. 262
White House Holds First-Ever Summit On the Ransomware Crisis Plaguing the Nation's Public Schools 76
Unesco Calls for Global Ban on Smartphones in Schools 153
Code.org Embraces Barbie 9 Years After Helping Take Her Down 75
Should High Schools Require a CS Course Before Students Graduate? 151
US Announces $39 Billion in New Student Debt Relief 194
Why Are Vietnam's Schools So Good? 169
Wisconsin Will Raise Public School Funding For the Next 400 Years 125
Schools Say US Teachers' Retirement Fund Was Breached By MOVEit Hackers 15
Figma's Design Tools Are Now Free On Chromebooks For All US School Students 25
Cleaner Accidentally Ruins Decades of US College's Research By Turning Off Freezer 224
34% of AP CS Students Couldn't Solve This Java-Based 2D Array Question 226
Harvard's New Computer Science Teacher Is a Chatbot 39
Figma's Design Tools Are Now Free on Chromebooks For All US School Students 17
US Reading and Math Scores Drop To Lowest Level In Decades 248
Hey Alexa, What Should Students Learn About AI? 22
NYT: It's the End of Computer Programming As We Know It 224
CS50, the World's Most Popular Online Programming Class, Turns to AI for Help 22
India Cuts Periodic Table and Evolution From School Textbooks 309
Student Loan Payment Pause 'Gone' Under Debt Ceiling Deal 399
'More Than 600,000 Students and Teachers Use Z-Library' 21
US Colleges See a Surge in CS Majors, Fewer Humanities Majors 284
Bill Gates Applauds Affordable Colleges, Urges Graduates to Solve the World's Problems 150
How US Universities Hope to Build a New Semiconductor Workforce 52
700,000 Free Programmable 'Micro Bits' with LEDs Given to UK Schools 54
New York City Rescinds Ban on ChatGPT Use in Public Schools 17
Professor Failed More Than Half His Class After ChatGPT Falsely Claimed It Wrote Their Final Papers 126
Coastal Cities Priced Out Low-Wage Workers. Now College Graduates Are Leaving, Too. 156
Khan Academy Piloting a Version of GPT Called Khanmigo 36
Why Universities Should Return To Oral Exams In the AI and ChatGPT Era 99
Worthless Degrees Are Creating an Unemployable Generation in India 150
Should Managers Permanently Stop Requiring Degrees for IT Positions? 214
American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Reverse Flynn Effect' 391
Khan Academy Chief Says GPT-4 is Ready To Be a Tutor 58
Microsoft and Jeff Bezos Tap Excel, Not Python Or R, To Teach Kids Data Science 188
Inside the Bitter Campus Privacy Battle Over Smart Building Sensors 50
Stanford Releases 386-Page Report On the State of AI 22
A Group of College Students Are Sending a Rover To the Moon 29
Should Schools Makes CS/Cybersecurity a High School Graduation Requirement? 128
Why America's Children Stopped Falling in Love with Reading 184
Duolingo Is Working On a Music App 8
One AI Tutor Per Child: Is Personalized Learning Finally Here? 96
1,100 Scientists and Students Barred From UK Amid China Crackdown 36
Online Tests Suggest IQ Scores In US Dropped For the First Time In Nearly a Century 186
Jaded With Education, More Americans are Skipping College 222
Microsoft, Google-Backed Group Wants To Boost AI Education in Low-Income Schools 34
Code.org Celebrates 10th Anniversary With Fond Memories of Its Viral 2013 Video 21
The End of the English Major 226
America's Chip Moonshot Should Take Aim At Its Education System 86
Stanford Faculty Say Anonymous Student Bias Reports Threaten Free Speech 154
Crypto Mining Operation Found In School Crawl Space 52
Internal Review Found 'Falsified Data' in Stanford President's Alzheimer's Research, Colleagues Allege 34
Steep Declines In Data Science Skills Among Fourth- and Eighth-Graders Across America, Study Finds 228
Z-Library Returns, Offering 'Unique' Domain Name To All Users 51
Several US Universities Want to Use Micronuclear Reactors 69
The End of Grading 231
America Failing To Prepare Gen Z To Enter the Workforce Due To 'Glaring' Gap in Tech Skills 264
Students Lost One-Third of a School Year To Pandemic, Study Finds 71
Why This Teacher Has Adopted an Open ChatGPT Policy 113
Yale-Harvard Snub of US News Rankings Opens Way for More Exits 35
University of Texas Will Offer Large-Scale Online Master's Degree in AI 40
ChatGPT Passes MBA Exam Given By a Wharton Professor 155
Anti-Plagiarism Service Turnitin Is Building a Tool To Detect ChatGPT-Written Essays 69
Scores of Stanford Students Used ChatGPT on Final Exams, Survey Suggests 108
The Lights Have Been On At a Massachusetts School For Over a Year Because No One Can Turn Them Off 202
Tech-Backed Code.org Bringing BBC Micro:bit To US K-5 Classrooms 21
Successful Strike at University of California Sparks Organizing Surge Among US Academic Workers 55
Seattle Public Schools Sue Social Media Giants for Youth Mental Health Crisis 165
Modi Takes Steps To Allow Yale, Oxford To Open India Campuses 26
UK PM Rishi Sunak To Propose Compulsory Math To Students Up To 18 110
NYC Bans Students and Teachers From Using ChatGPT 104
Some Universities Are Now Restricting TikTok Access on Campus 36
Cambridge Student Solves 2,500-Year-Old Sanskrit Problem 70
MPs and Peers Do Worse Than 10-Year-Olds in Maths and English Sats 108
Should CS Be Required for a High School Degree? 197
Stanford Investigates Its President Over Allegations of Past Research Misconduct 22
Graduate Students Analyze, Crack, and Remove Under-Desk Surveillance Devices 86
Amazon To Shut Down Its Online Learning Platform in India 9
France Says No To Office 365 and Google Workspace in School 56
Survey Reveals the Most-Regretted (and Least-Regretted) College Majors 140
Wharton, Berkeley, NYU Offering Online MBAs For the First Time 22
An Investigation of CS Instructor Obstacles, Workarounds, and Desires 36
Americans Eye European Colleges To Save Money On Tuition 168
Math Scores Fell In Nearly Every State, Reading Dipped On National Exam 196
New Specialized Career Certifications Created by 'Grow with Google' Through University-Industry Partnerships 27
A Minecraft Player Set Out To Build the Known Universe, Block by Block 29
'Princeton Isn't Free - But It Could Be' 73
Universities Adapt To Google's New Storage Fees, Or Migrate Away Entirely 91
NYU Organic Chemistry Professor Terminated For Tough Grading 319
When AI Asks Dumb Questions, It Gets Smart Fast 38
Millions of Borrowers May Be Eligible For a Refund On Student Loan Payments Made During the Pandemic 171
Does Computer Programming Really Help Kids Learn Math? 218
US Announces Space-Companies Coalition to Prepare Skilled Tech Workforce for Space Jobs 16
YouTube Launches Ad-Free Video Player For Education 19
Princeton Will Cover All College Costs For Families Making Up To $100,000 53
Google Pledges $20 Million To Expand Computer Science Education in the US 48
Virtual Classes Are Now Permanent Offerings at Some US Schools 60
Biden is Canceling Up To $10K in Student Loans, $20K For Pell Grant Recipients 441
University Can't Scan Students' Rooms During Remote Tests, Judge Rules 84
Star American Professor Masterminded a Surveillance Machine For Chinese Big Tech 26
A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are In the Bathroom Is Now In 1,000 American Schools 90
Midwest Universities Unite To Support US Chip Industry Revival 24
What Happened After a High School Banned Mobile Phones? 289
Denmark Bans Chromebooks, Google Workspace In Schools Over Data Transfer Risks 67
50 Governors Sign Compact in Response To Tech Executives' Request For More CS-Savvy Kids 82
Columbia Loses Its No. 2 Spot In the US News Rankings 19
California Late Start Law Aims To Make School Less of a Yawn 168
Remote Learning Apps Tracked Millions of US Children During Pandemic 44
PhD Students Face Cash Crisis with Wages That Don't Cover Living Costs 126
Playing Video Games Has An Unexpected Effect On Kids' IQ, Says New Study 106
Congress Urged To Ease Immigration for Foreign Science Talent 94
Illinois College, Hit By Ransomware Attack, To Shut Down 58
Got a Coupon For That College Course? Marketing Gimmicks Come To Higher Ed 22
Another Standardized Test Falls? America's Law Schools Could Stop Using the LSAT 100
College Graduates Are Overestimating the Salaries They'll Start Out at By $50,000, Report Finds 223
Google Makes $100,000 Worth of Tech Training Free To Every US Business 12
Khan Academy Launches Global Online High School Program 24
Dialect Hunt Aims To Update Prized English Language Archive 15
The University of Washington's Fuzzy CS Diversity Success Math 107
Intel Calls Its AI That Detects Student Emotions a Teaching Tool. Others Call It 'Morally Reprehensible' 38
Applications Surged After Colleges Started Ignoring Standardized Test Scores 187
Can AI Be Trained to Grade CS Homework Assignments? 58
Rutgers Business School Created Fake Jobs For Graduates To Boost MBA Program Rankings, Lawsuit Charges 13
MIT Grad Students Vote To Form Labor Union 82
Efforts To Ban Books Jumped an 'Unprecedented' Four-Fold In 2021 142
Senators Question School Surveillance Startups on Data, Civil Rights 38
MIT Reinstates SAT/ACT Requirement For Incoming Classes 113
40,000 Chromebooks and 9,600 iPads Went Missing At Chicago Public Schools During COVID 90
'I No Longer Grade My Students' Work -- And I Wish I Had Stopped Sooner' 346
Kids Are Learning History From Video Games Now 84
'US College Education Is Nearer To Collapsing Than It Appears' 448
US Schools Can Subscribe To An Electric School Bus Fleet At Prices That Beat Diesel 100
'To Keep Students in STEM fields, Let's Weed Out the Weed-Out Math Classes' 365
The Dangers of CS 'Philanthrocapitalism' 41
Are Colleges Going To Be On the Hook For Covid Tuition Refunds? 77
Can Microsoft's New Software Help Teach Children to Read? 30
The US Gets Some More Tuition-Free College Programs 70
On Raspberry Pi's 10th Anniversary, Eben Upton Ponders the Prospects for a RISC-V Pi 71
How a Simple Security Bug Became a University Campus 'Master Key' 73
Facebook is Shutting Down Its College Student-only Social Network, Campus 7
MSCHF Just Turned the SATs Into a Battle Royale With a Big Cash Prize 42
Children May Instinctively Know How To Do Division Even Before Hitting the Books, Study Finds 48
Code.org and Coldplay Launch Global Campaign To Inspire Kids To Code and Dance 53
The End of Free Google Storage for Education 40
North Carolina Teams With Microsoft To Bring Minecraft CS Curriculum To All Middle Schoolers 39
Governors Asked To Sign Compact Committing To K-12 CS Expansion 67
SAT Will Soon Be All-Digital, Shortened To 2 Hours 103
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Software Development, Linux, and Git Certification 13
Ask Slashdot: Do We Need Better Computer Programming Courses For Visual Learners? 159
Apple Now Verifies Anyone Asking for Educational Discounts 43
Do CS Teachers Need To Know CS? 168
$1.7 Billion in Student Loan Debt Cancelled for 66,000 Borrowers 72
More Than 1 Million Fewer Students Are In College, the Lowest Numbers In 50 Years 184
Yale, Georgetown, Other Top Schools Illegally Collude To Limit Student Financial Aid, Lawsuit Alleges 52
EdTech Firm Fires 60,000 in Worst Cuts Since China Crackdown 51
Amazon Aims To Increase Influence On K-12 Schools and Make Kids Hardware-Savvy 25
Should Universities De-Prioritize English Departments for Engineering? 338
Skillsoft To Acquire Codecademy For $525 Million 6
Study Finds 'Serious Security Risks' In K-12 School Apps 16
Schools Across US Cancel Classes Over Unconfirmed TikTok Threats 44
Rocket Scientists and Brain Surgeons Aren't Necessarily More Clever, Study Finds 195
Chicago Public Schools Partners With Google Instead of Code.org For CSEdWeek 7
Raspberry Pi Trading Could Go Public This Spring 32
California Moves To Recommend Delaying Algebra To 9th Grade Statewide 639
Why Colleges are Giving Up on Remote Education 111
Roblox, Building Out the Metaverse, Looks To Bring Educational Videogames To Schools 40
The US Department of Homeland Security Urges 'Digital Literacy' 56
Tech Billionaires Auctioning Twitter 'Follows' To Advance K-12 CS Education 21
Microsoft Is Very Determined That Kids Will Learn To Code Using Minecraft 56
Microsoft Launches Windows 11 SE Built for Low-cost Education PCs 62

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