Education Stories for 2008

Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors? 386
ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core 474
What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? 1117
Cornell University FPGA Class Projects for 2008 112
Windows Cheap Enough For $2B Aussie Laptop Deal 234
Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" 626
Best Introduction To Programming For Bright 11-14-Year-Olds? 962
Why a Music Tax Is a Bad Idea 194
When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education 1589
Best Paradigm For a First Programming Course? 592
Bjarne Stroustrup On Educating Software Developers 538
Student Faces Suspension For Spamming Profs 516
Warner Music Pushing Music Tax For Universities 375
Teacher Sells Ads On Tests 532
Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty 727
Virtual Peace Sim Game Based On America's Army 186
IT Job Without a Degree? 1123
Royal Society of Chemistry Slams UK Exam Standards 408
Improving Wikipedia Coverage of Computer Science 186
Stephen Hawking Going To Canada 204
Computer For a Child? 556
How to Deal With an Aging Brain? 684
How To Help Our Public Schools With Technology? 378
National Geographic Getting Into Video Games 35
Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science? 1563
New TN Law Forces Universities To Patrol For Copyright Violations 331
Some Schools Welcoming Patent Firm, Others Wary 55
Fun Things To Do With a Math Or Science Degree? 564
Success Not Just a Matter of Talent 247
Duke Demands Proof of Infringement From RIAA 159
Job and Internship Salary Comparisons? 231
O'Reilly Now Competing With Sun Java Certificates 44
Microsoft Denies Paying Nigerians $400K To Ditch Linux 148
OLPC's "Give 1 Get 1" Comes To Europe 134
How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists 610
Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows 154
Philosophy and Computer Science Revisited 204
Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education 1515
Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Reporting it 547
Game-Related Education On the Rise At Colleges 178
Perimeter Institute Launches Modern Physics Resource 30
The Effects of the Cloud On Business, Education 68
User Interface of Major Oscilliscope Brands? 281
Russia Mandates Free Software For Public Schools 271
Voters Swayed By Candidates Who Share Their Looks 266
Wikipedia For Schools DVD Released 132
Keeping Up With IT Developments In Education? 32
Many Universities Spending $100K/Year Enforcing P2P Rules 323
Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops 302
University Tries "One iPhone Per Student" 281
How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement 888
Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University? 485
Mathematicians Deconstruct US News College Rankings 161
How Do I Talk To 4th Graders About IT? 531
Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain 435
Venezuela Purchases a Million Intel Classmates 275
Thomson Reuters Sues Over Open-Source Endnote-Alike Zotero 181
Review of Discovery Institute's Evolution Textbook 756
Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh 881
Get Ready For ... Nanosoccer! 89
Re-purposing a Student Tech Service Group? 185
The Tell-All Campus Tour 34
Open Source Licenses For Academic Work? 173
Should Organic Chemistry Be a Premed Requirement? 567
7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell 719
Stanford To Offer Free CS and Robotics Courses 247
Peru To Be First To Put Windows On OLPC Laptop 292
Study Finds Video Games Are Not Bad for Kids 220
Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns 658
Royal Society and Creationism In Science Classes 892
University Brings Charges Against White Hat Hacker 540
Jedi Knights Course Offered By Queen's University Belfast 180
Virginia Begins Open-Source Physics Textbook 226
Computer Textbooks For High Schoolers? 361
Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet 324
Nonprofit Group Sends Filesharing Propaganda To Students 266
First Review of Intel's New Classmate PC 79
Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare 423
Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science? 868
Collegiate Resistance To RIAA In Michigan 175
Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts 1334
Genetic Glitch May Prevent Kids From Learning From Their Mistakes 500
ACM OSR Linux Issue Available For Free Download 18
Students Learn To Write Viruses 276
$12 MIT Computer Based On NES, Not Apple II 308
MIT Team Working On a $12 Apple (II) Desktop 401
India's "$10 Laptop" To Cost $100 After All 146
How Do You Fix Education? 949
Ivy League Computer Science Curricula Exposed 312
Comparison of Windows XP and Linux/Sugar On the OLPC XO 203
No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys 701
"Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies 208
Online Colleges Could Spy On Students – By Law 307
Researchers Face Jail Risk For Tor Snooping Study 121
The Push For Quotas For Women In Science 896
MIT Helps Third World With Hands-On Approach 128
Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law 1574
Your Computer As Your Singing Coach 127
NC Judge Takes "A Fresh Look" At RIAA Subpoenas 86
Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads 511
A Video Game To Teach AP Level Immunology 158
Anti-Evolution "Academic Freedom" Bill Passed In Louisiana 898
IT Students Contract Out Coursework To India 642
New Grads Shun IT Jobs As "Boring" 752
Multitasking Considered Detrimental 371
Student Faces 38 Years In Prison For Hacking Grades 645
Stephen Hawking Turned Down Knighthood 201
Best Electronics Kits For Adults? 376
UK Games Industry Over the Hill? 314
Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers 1114
PhD Research On Software Design Principles? 541
Computer Art For a CS Dept Office? 366
How To Teach a Healthy Dose of Skepticism? 880
Are Academic Journals Obsolete? 317
Illustrated Guide To Home Chemistry Experiments 56
New Browser-Based MMO Teaches Mandarin Chinese 103
UCF Studying Health Benefits of Video Games 27
How Laptops in Education Can Help Dictators, Hurt Learning 122
Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? 853
MIT Develops "Paper Towel" For Oil Spills 105
Programming As a Part of a Science Education? 508
NASA's Educational Game Proposal Deadline Extended 17
OLPC's XO As a Wireless Hacking Tool 66
Telcos Compete For Education Broadcast Spectrum 26
Indian Tech Universities Put Lectures Online For Free 40
2nd Generation "$100 Laptop" Will Be an E-Book Reader 286
Japan "Running Out of Engineers" 478
$100 Laptop Platform Moves On 100
Online Quiz As a Gateway to P2P 250
Changing a School's Tech Disposal Policy? 218
Games With A Purpose Help With Tasks That Tax Computers 61
Videos and Report From Embedded Linux Conference 42
A View From Inside the OLPC Project 237
Hawking Searching For Africa's Einsteins 276
How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators 280
Lectures On the Frontiers of Physics Online 77
First Space Lawyer Graduates 188
To Curb Truancy, Dallas Tries Electronic Monitoring 462
Books On Electronics For the Lay Programmer? 335
Prototyping 50 Games in One Semester 72
RIAA Says No Mystery In Rash of College Complaints 255
Science Documentaries for Youngsters? 383
Massive Increase in RIAA Copyright Notices 179
Purdue Plans a 1-Day Supercomputer "Barnraising" 97
Negroponte vs. Open-Source Fundamentalists 414
Competition In the Free Textbook Market 117
GPL Edutainment Software 190
KDE Desktops For 52 Million Students In Brazil 201
Negroponte Says Windows 'Runs Well' On XO Laptop 339
German Wikipedia To Be Published As a Book 184
Walter Bender Resigns From OLPC 126
Cyber Defense Competition Has A New Champion 66
Ben Stein's 'Expelled' - Evolution, Academia and Conformity 1766
What is the First Day in a University Lab Like? 200
Widespread Keyboard Failures on OLPC's XO-1 264
Coolest University Tech Lab Projects in the Works 53
Choosing a Unix System Administration Textbook? 57
U. of Chicago Law School Blocks Internet Access 343
For CS Majors, How Important Is the "Where?" 991
Marketing On a .EDU Domain 121
Harvard Adds Open Source to its MBA Curriculum 39
Adults Too Quick to Dismiss Educational Gaming? 255
Virginia Becomes First State to Mandate Internet Safety Lessons 262
College Board Kills AP Computer Science AB 322
RIAA's Boston University Subpoena Quashed 39
University of Washington Tracking the Edge of Privacy 77
Lecture Notes Considered Infringement 385
How Ancient Mechanics Thought About Machines 76
Augmenting Data Beats Better Algorithms 179
Peruvian Teachers Begin OLPC Training 56
Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student? 971
Scholarships From FOSS Organizations? 348
How To Communicate Science to a Polarized US Audience 584
Gen Y Workers Reinventing IT for the Better 447
Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer 349
MIT Student Gets Artistic With LED Art 163
Bad Science Journalism Gets Schooled 212
Free In-Class Resource For Science Teachers 39
Mega-Cash Prizes and Revolutionary Science 134
Controversy Over 140-Year-Old Math Problem 64
Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group 554
CS Degrees Low in 2007 But Bouncing Back 265
UN Makes Its Statistical Data Free and Searchable 79
Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution 1049
Mathematician Solves a Big One After 140 Years 144
Industry Group Sponsors College Course To Create Fake Blog 124
Canadian University Puts Tech Whiz Kids in 'Dormcubator' 188
Can Architects Save Libraries from the Internet? 270
Correcting Misperceptions About Evolution 838
Blackboard Wins Patent Suit Against Desire2Learn 186
New Science Standards Approved in Florida 891
Microsoft to Give Away Developer Tools to Students 555
Facebook, Google, and Intellectual Property 77
California Lawmaker Seeks Climate Change as part of Public Education 313
Scientists Scan Striking Nanoscale Images 37
OLPC and CC Free Content Drive 92
Microsoft Pushes Copyright Education Curriculum 251
Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement 147
Where Are Tomorrow's Embedded Developers? 245
Ethics In IT 466
A Smart Pillbox To Improve Medication Compliance 145
College Funding Bill Passes House, P2P Provision Intact 222
Male Brains 'Wired for Videogame Obsession' 125
Richard Stallman on OLPC 218
Toddlers May Learn Language By Data Mining 213
Online Parent-Child Gap Widens 201
What the MPAA Still Isn't Telling Us 150
23,000 Linux PCs For Filipino Schools 142
MIT Student Plans to Take on RIAA 169
MPAA Botched Study On College Downloading 215
Colleges Being Remade Into "Repress U"? 527
Followup On Java As "Damaging" To Students 626
Copyright Lobbies Threaten Federal College Funding 277
Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life 379
The Impatience of the Google Generation 366
Pope Cancels Speech After Scientists Protest 1507
High School Sophomores Discover Asteroid 126
Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description 415
OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students 338
Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools 300
12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions 871
Chemical Reaction Changes Color Over and Over 61
Former OLPC CTO Aims to Create $75 Laptop 207
OLPC, Microsoft Working Toward Dual-Boot XO Laptops 231
What Skills Should Undergrads Have? 587
Professors Slam Java As "Damaging" To Students 1267
Science Text Attempts to Reconcile Religion and Science 1071
Intel Resigns from One Laptop Per Child Project 338
One Laptop Per Child Application Development 33
LANCOR v. OLPC Case Continues In Nigerian Court 281
OLPC CTO Quits to Commercialize OLPC Technology 168
Gen Y Hits the Library the Most -- But Not For Books 215