Education Stories for 2013

53% More Book Banning Incidents In US Schools This Year 360
Is a Super-Sized iPad the Future of Education? 234
Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School 294
Is Computer Science Education Racist and Sexist? 612
Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? 308
EdX Drops Plans To Connect MOOC Students With Employers 59
The Business of Attention Deficit Disorder 246
Code.org Stats: 507MM LOC, 6.8MM Kids, 2K YouTube Views 123
More Students Learn CS In 3 Days Than Past 100 Years 287
Chicago Public Schools Promoting Computer Science to Core Subject 236
Excite Kids To Code By Focusing Less On Coding 207
New Education Performance Data Published: Asia Dominates 263
White House Calls On Kids To Film High-Tech Education 95
Why Competing For Tenure Is Like Trying To Become a Drug Lord 168
Zuckerberg Shows Kindergartners Ruby Instead of JavaScript 144
Ask Slashdot: DIY Computational Neuroscience? 90
Sebastian Thrun Pivots Udacity Toward Vocational Education 86
Code.org Wants Participating Students' Data For 7 Years 90
Art Makes Students Smart 187
Is a Postdoc Worth it? 233
Getting Evolution In Science Textbooks For Texas Schools 710
San Quentin Inmates Learn Technology From Silicon Valley Pros 109
Code.org: More Money For CS Instructors Who Teach More Girls 381
Microsoft Certifications For High School Credits In Australia 126
Airline Pilots Rely Too Much On Automation, Says Safety Panel 270
Students Tracked In UK College Via RFID For 1-3 Years 64
Elon Musk Talks About the Importance of Physics, Criticizes the MBA 343
Cute Cat Photos Are Data-Driven Science Behind Cunning New Language Learning App 80
How MOOC Faculty Exploit People's Desire To Learn 115
Questions Raised By Education Dept's Road Show On College Value 95
Smithsonian Releases 3D Models of Artifacts 47
Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting 295
A Makerbot In Every Classroom 152
Chicago State University Lawyers Attack Faculty Bloggers 94
MPAA Backs Anti-Piracy Curriculum For Elementary School Students 250
Elementary School Bans Students From Touching Each Other 336
Google Relying On People Power For 'Helpouts' 57
The Academy For Software Engineering: a High School For Developers 56
Full Details of My Attempted Entrapment For Teaching Polygraph Countermeasures 465
Why Organic Chemistry Is So Difficult For Pre-Med Students 279
A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core 663
Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos 453
Web Literacy Standard Announced By Mozilla 64
Inside South Africa's First Fully Digital Government School 47
Why Johnny Can't Speak: a Cost of Paywalled Research 189
Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees 655
Teachers Get 1 Week To Test Tech Giants' Hour of Code 81
A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? 668
Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing? 465
Anant Agarwal Answers Your Questions About edX and the Future of Education 20
Read Better Books To Be a Better Person 158
Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit 196
South African Education Department Bans Free and Open Source Software 185
US Adults Score Poorly On Worldwide Test 745
NC School District Recalls Its Amplify Tablets After 10% Break In Under a Month 177
All Your Child's Data Are Belong To InBloom 211
Space Camp: Not Just For Kids Any More 48
World Solar Challenge Underway 11
The Era of Young Innovators: Looking Beyond Universities To Source Talents 86
'Dangerously Naive' Aaron Swartz 'Destroyed Himself' 362
How Data Analytics In Education Could Create a New Class of Haves and Have-nots 268
Science Magazine "Sting Operation" Catches Predatory Journals In the Act 194
Teaching Fractions: The Tootsie Roll Is the New Pie 194
Interview: Ask President Anant Agarwal About edX and the Future of Education 73
Students Hack School-Issued iPads Within One Week 375
How Early Should Kids Learn To Code? 299
California Elementary Schools To Test Anti-Piracy Curriculum 356
Learning To Code: Are We Having Fun Yet? 226
Ask Slashdot: Prioritizing Saleable Used Computer Books? 219
Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? 1293
Massive Open Online School "FutureLearn" Opens 37
California School District Hires Firm To Monitor Students' Social Media 250
No Child Left Untableted 214
The Boy Genius of Ulan Bator 163
The Post-Lecture Classroom 169
Google Releases Raspberry Pi Web Dev Teaching Tool 68
Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. 1 Released in HTML Format 129
Study Shows Professors With Tenure Are Worse Teachers 273
Here Come the Chromebooks, As Google and Intel Cozy-Up On Haswell 139
Google Joins Open edX 29
400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin 562
Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests 356
Can Closed Public Schools Become Makerspaces? (Video) 85
What Works In Education: Scientific Evidence Gets Ignored 440
Murdoch's AP Computer Science MOOC Goes Live 67
Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil 1255
For Education, Why TI-83 > iPad 340
Ohio State Introduces Massive Open Online Calculus 134
Romanian Science In Freefall 156
OLPC Now Distributes Kid-Friendly Tablets, Not Just Notebooks (Video) 55
Ask Slashdot: Hands-On Activity For IT Career Fair 121
100% Failure Rate On University of Liberia's Admission Exam 308
Students At Lynn University Get iPad Minis Instead of Textbooks 192
Obama Seeks New System For Rating Colleges 302
LinkedIn Now Targeting Universities, 14-Year-Olds 87
Big MOOC On Campus: Georgia Tech's $6,600 MS In CS 163
Amazon Forbids Crossing State Lines With Rented Textbooks 125
The College-Loan Scandal 827
Using Laptop To Take Notes Lowers Grades 313
Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Med-School Note-Taking? 217
Finland's Upper Secondary School Exams Going All-Linux 55
Back To 'The Future of Programming' 214
The History of The Oregon Trail 58
Turning Santa Cruz Into a Haven For Hackers, Makers & Startups 117
A Year of Linux Desktop At Westcliff High School 283
Microsoft's Math-Challenged STEM Education Contest 96
Ask Slashdot: High-School Suitable Books On How Computers Affect Society? 140
US Academy President Caught Embellishing Resume, Will Resign 124
Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 393
Texas School District Drops Embattled RFID Student IDs; Opts For Cameras 244
San Jose State Suspends Collaboration With Udacity 116
Eben Upton Muses on the Raspberry Pi, Scratch and, His Love For Parallela 71
Ask Slashdot: Learning DB the Right Way; Books, Tutorials, or What? 106
DHS Chief Janet Napolitano Resigns 192
Iris Scans Are the New School IDs 217
Math and Science Popular With Students Until They Realize They're Hard 580
No US College In Top 10 For ACM International Programming Contest 2013 199
Global Study Stresses Importance of Public Internet Access 24
Deus Ex Creator On How a Video-Game Academy Could Fix the Industry 132
English Schools To Introduce Children To 3D Printers, Laser Cutters, Robotics 119
Who Will Teach U.S. Kids To Code? Rupert Murdoch 138
Boston U. Patent Lawsuits Hit Apple, Amazon, Samsung, and Others 147
How Facial Analysis Software Could Help Struggling Students 90
Ask Slashdot: Explaining Cloud Privacy Risks To K-12 Teachers? 168
L.A. School District's 30,000 iPads May Come With Free Lock-In 232
Why Engineering Freshmen Should Take Humanities Courses 564
Microsoft Pushing Bing For Search In Schools, With Ad-Removal Hook 158
Surgeon Uses Google Glass and iPad To Capture Live Procedure and Stream It 100
Fixing Over a Decade of Missing Computer Programming Education In the UK 117
Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199 251
UnGrounded: British Airways Attempts to Bottle Some Startup Spirit 128
High TechCarnival Aims To Entertain, Inspire, and Educate 28
Professors Say Massive Open Online Courses Threaten Academic Freedom 284
MIT President Tells Grads To 'Hack the World' 86
Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? 293
Hacker Exposes Evidence of Widespread Grade Tampering In India 304
Ask Slashdot: With Grants Drying Up, How Is a Tech Non-Profit To Survive? 178
Ask Slashdot: How To Start and Manage a University LUG? 66
WY Teen Cut From Science Fair For Entering Too Many 204
Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree? 656
Schools Scanned Students' Irises Without Permission 342
Ask Slashdot: How Can I Make a Computer Science Club Interesting? 265
How Did You Learn How To Program? 623
A Commencement Speech For 2013 CS Majors 144
Ask Slashdot: Safe Learning Environment For VMs? 212
Med Students Unaware of Their Bias Against Obese Patients 446
Curiosity Rewarded: Florida Teen Heading to Space Camp, Not Jail 241
Australia Makes Asian Language Learning a Priority 230
Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook 289
What Professors Can Learn From "Hard Core" MOOC Students 141
Bloomberg To HS Grads: Be a Plumber 368
Georgia Tech and Udacity Partner for Online M.S. in Computer Science 122
Cosmos Remake Coming To Fox In 2014 193
How Colleges Are Pushing Out the Poor To Court the Rich 668
Ad Exec: Learn To Code Or You're Dead To Me 339
How an Aussie University Creates the World's Best Hackers 76
Spoiler Alert: Smart Kids Become Successful Adults 256
New 'Academic Redshirt' For Engineering Undergrads at UW 147
Sleep Deprivation Lowers School Achievement In Children 272
Coursera Partners With Chegg To Offer Gratis, DRMed Textbooks for Courses 91
A Case For a Software Testing Undergrad Major 220
TED Teams Up With PBS On Ideas For Education 78
Campaign Raises Funds To Send Wikipedia Readers To Kids Without Internet 97
India's $20 Android Tablet First Project Completed 42
Repeal of Louisiana Science Education Act Rejected 318
Alaskan Middle Schoolers Phish Their Teachers 215
Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment 1078
Coursera To Offer K-12 Teacher Development Courses 42
German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection 347
Indiana University Dedicates Biggest College-Owned Supercomputer 83
Politician Wants Sci-fi To Be Mandatory In School 295
New Study Suggests No Shortage of American STEM Graduates 344
Pearson Vue Now On Day 5 of Massive Outage 151
Old Educational Computer Resurrected As a Spreadsheet 37
Building Sumo Robots With the Brain Monkeys Crew (Video) 15
Ask Slashdot: Science Books For Middle School Enrichment? 203
Terrible Advice From a Great Scientist 276
Statistical Errors Keep 4700 K-3rd Students From NYC 'Gifted' Programs 215
Localized (Visual) Programming Language For Kids? 185
Some States Dropping GED Tests Due To Price Spikes 224
Building a Better Tech School 62
Australian Networks Block Community University Website 97
'CodeSpells' Video Game Teaches Children Java Programming 245
Teachers Know If You've Been E-Reading 348
Take a Sonic Tour of the Brain 16
Google Cache Makes Murdoch's K-12 Site Look Obscene 101
H-1B Cap Reached Today; Didn't Get In? Too Bad 512
Getting a Literature Ph.D. Will Make You Into a Horrible Person 489
Automated System Developed To Grade Student Essays 253
MIT To End Open-Network Policy In Response To Recent Attacks 144
EdX Online Classroom Code Going Open Source, Uniting With Stanford 27
Adafruit Launches Educational Show Aimed At Kids 44
Brown vs. Startup Over a Sandwich 119
Dell, Raymond Unveil 'One Smartwatch Per Child'; Icahn Erupts 34
DOJ, MIT, JSTOR Seek Anonymity In Swartz Case 236
$35 Indian Tablet Has Until March 31st To Ship or Be Cancelled 46
Library Journal Board Resigns On "Crisis of Conscience" After Swartz Death 128
Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Computer Lab In a Developing Country 172
Google Blogger: Vietnamese HS Students Excelling At CS 291
Kids Build Pill Dispenser To Win Raspberry Pi Award 29
Code.org Documentary Serving Multiple Agendas? 226
Go To Uni, Earn a Degree In Drones 66
Supreme Court Upholds First Sale Doctrine 648
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? 561
Educational Linux Distro Provides Tech-Bundle For Kids and Educators 55
Harvard Secretly Searched Deans' Email 113
Mass. Bill Would Put Privacy Squeeze on Cloud Apps For Schools 95
Singaporean University Snubs Lauded (But Anti-Censorship) Professor 48
US CompSci Enrollment Leaps For 5th Straight Year 176
MIT's Charm School For Geeks Turns 20 217
Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton: "Programming Will Make You a Better Doctor" 79
Ask Slashdot: Advice For Summer Before Ph.D. Program? 228
RSA: Phish Me If You Can (Video) 171
'Bandwidth Divide' Could Bar Some From Free Online Courses 222
$100 Million Student Database Worries Parents 250
The Raspberry Pi Turns One 81
Play Wii, Become a Better Surgeon 55
Is Code.org Too Soulless To Make an Impact? 384
A School in the Cloud 126
Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code 265
Interviews: Khan Academy Lead Developer Ben Kamens Answers Your Questions 24
Minix 3.2.1 Released 107
For Businesses, the College Degree Is the New High School Diploma 728
The Two Big Problems With Online College Courses 215
Full Review of the Color TI-84 Plus 233
Publisher Sues University Librarian Over His Personal Blog Posts 126
Ask Slashdot: Is the Bar Being Lowered At Universities? 605
Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design 813
Estonian Schools To Teach Computer-Based Math 77
Interviews: Ask Lead Developer Ben Kamens About Khan Academy 69
Professors Rejecting Classroom Technology 372
Ask Slashdot: Best Alternative To the Canonical Computer Science Degree? 347
Should Techies Trump All Others In Immigration Reform? 231
Russian Univ. Launches Course Based On ReactOS Led By Alex Bragin 90
Texas School Board Searching For Alternatives To Evolutionary Theory 763
Summer Programming Courses Before Heading Off To College? 183
Embry-Riddle To Offer Degree In Space Operations 79
Researchers Opt To Limit Uses of Open-access Publications 172
German Science Minister Stripped of Her PhD 123
Royal Canadian Air Force Sees More Sims In the Future of Fighter Pilot Training 125
The Top Paying Tech Companies For Interns 133
School Board Considers Copyright Ownership of Student and Teacher Works 351
Google Announces 2,000 Schools Now Use Chromebooks, Up 100% In 3 Months 96
Internet-Deprived Kids Turning To 'McLibraries' 331
Dozens Suspended In Harvard University Cheat Scandal 264
IBM's Watson Goes To College To Extend Abilities 94
Microsoft Wants Computer Science Taught In UK Primary Schools 168
Does US Owe the World an Education At Its Expense? 689
Google Gives 15,000 Raspberry Pis To UK Schools 159
Aaron Swartz Case: Deja Vu All Over Again For MIT 175

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