Education Stories for 2014

School Defied Google and US Government, Let Boys Program White House Xmas Trees 355
White House Touts Obama's 1-Liner as 2014 Tech Highlight 65
An Open Source Flat Pack Robot Arm That's As Easy To Build As Ikea Furniture 39
Boston Elementary, Middle Schools To Get a Longer Day 161
The World of YouTube Bubble Sort Algorithm Dancing 68
Tech's Gender Gap Started At Stanford 224
Putting Time Out In Time Out: The Science of Discipline 323
Librarians: The Google Before Google 94
Calculus Textbook Author James Stewart Has Died 170
Ask Slashdot: Resources For Kids Who Want To Make Games? 121
Startup Helps You Build Your Very Own Picosatellite On a Budget 21
New AP Course, "Computer Science Principles," Aims To Make CS More Accessible 208
Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? 280
Touring a Carnival Cruise Simulator: 210 Degrees of GeForce-Powered Projection 42
Raspberry Pi In Space 56
Google Suggests Separating Students With 'Some CS Knowledge' From Novices 307
2014 Geek Gift Guide 113
MIT Removes Online Physics Lectures and Courses By Walter Lewin 416
Seeking Coders, Tech Titans Turn To K-12 Schools 105
Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? 584
FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents 229
Chromebooks Overtake iPads In US Education Market 193
Interviews: Adora Svitak Answers Your Questions 107
Google, National Parks Partner To Let Girls Program White House Xmas Tree Lights 333
Football Concussion Lawsuits Start To Hit High Schools 233
Finland Dumps Handwriting In Favor of Typing 523
Gilbert, AZ Censors Biology Books the Old-Fashioned Way 289
In UK Study, Girls Best Boys At Making Computer Games 312
UK Announces Hybrid Work/Study Undergraduate Program To Fill Digital Gap 110
Cops 101: NYC High School Teaches How To Behave During Stop-and-Frisk 481
2014 Hour of Code: Do Ends Justify Disney Product Placement Means? 125
Harvard Students Move Fossil Fuel Stock Fight To Court 203
Interviews: Ask Adora Svitak About Education and Women In STEM and Politics 155
"Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" Pulled From Amazon 561
NYT: Privacy Concerns For ClassDojo, Other Tracking Apps For Schoolchildren 66
Ask Slashdot: Professionally Packaged Tools For Teaching Kids To Program? 107
Coding Bootcamps Presented As "College Alternative" 226
Billionaire Donors Lavish Millions On Code.org Crowdfunding Project 84
Ask Slashdot: Programming Education Resources For a Year Offline? 223
Education Chief Should Know About PLATO and the History of Online CS Education 134
Microsoft Losing the School Markets To iPads and Chromebooks 219
US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System 698
Duke: No Mercy For CS 201 Cheaters Who Don't Turn Selves In By Wednesday 320
Black IT Pros On (Lack Of) Racial Diversity In Tech 459
The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat 438
Eben Upton Explains the Raspberry Pi Model A+'s Redesign 107
Codecademy's ReSkillUSA: Gestation Period For New Developers Is 3 Months 173
Interviews: Ask Robert Ballard About Ocean Exploration 40
Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart 273
It's Time To Revive Hypercard 299
Colleges Face New 'Gainful Employment' Regulations For Student Loans 331
Mark Zuckerberg And John Doerr Donate $1M To Expand The Hour Of Code Campaign 24
The Most Highly Cited Scientific Papers of All Time 81
Technology Group Promises Scientists Their Own Clouds 45
Tech Giants Donate $750 Million In Goods and Services To Underprivileged Schools 143
Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease 1007
Solving the Mystery of Declining Female CS Enrollment 608
Employers Worried About Critical Thinking Skills 553
Microsoft Exec Opens Up About Research Lab Closure, Layoffs 55
Doctor Who To Teach Kids To Code 164
Be True To Your CS School: LinkedIn Ranks US Schools For Job-Seeking Programmers 130
Microsoft, Facebook Declare European Kids Clueless About Coding, Too 213
Raspberry Pi Sales Approach 4 Million 146
Despite Push From Tech Giants, AP CS Exam Counts Don't Budge Much In Most States 144
AnandTech's Intro To Semiconductor Tech 21
Ask Slashdot: Capture the Flag Training 102
Glut of Postdoc Researchers Stirs Quiet Crisis In Science 283
Genes Don't Just Predict Intelligence, But Also How Well You Do In School 154
Google Code-In 2014 and Google Summer of Code 2015 Announced 15
Is It Time To Throw Out the College Application System? 389
Only Two States Have Rules To Prevent Cheating On Computerized Tests 95
Fortune.com: Blame Tech Diversity On Culture, Not Pipeline 342
Code.org: Blame Tech Diversity On Education Pipeline, Not Hiring Discrimination 227
David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures 942
How Tech Is Transforming Teaching In a South African Township 26
Blood For Extra Credit Points Offer Raises Eyebrows In Test-Mad China 90
Kano Ships 18,000 Learn-To-Code Computer Kits 53
Microsoft Co-opts Ice Bucket Challenge Idea To Promote Coding In Latin America 96
Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Students' Passwords Secure? 191
The Site That Teaches You To Code Well Enough To Get a Job 131
Ask Slashdot: Who Should Pay Costs To Attend Conferences? 182
How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything 795
Is Google's Non-Tax Based Public School Funding Cause For Celebration? 88
Ask Slashdot: Alternate Software For Use On Smartboards? 96
The Minecraft Parent 174
ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children 981
College Students: Want To Earn More? Take a COBOL Class 270
Ask Slashdot: Any Place For Liberal Arts Degrees In Tech? 392
Oculus Rift CEO Says Classrooms of the Future Will Be In VR Goggles 182
The MOOC Revolution That Wasn't 182
Harvard's CompSci Intro Course Boasts Record-Breaking Enrollment 144
Ask Slashdot: Robotics or Electronic Kits For Wounded Veterans? 115
Protesters Blockade Microsoft's Seattle Headquarters Over Tax Breaks 246
Getting Into College the Old Fashioned Way: With Money 161
Bill Gates Wants To Remake the Way History Is Taught. Should We Let Him? 363
Music Training's Cognitive Benefits Could Help "At-Risk" Students 58
Privacy Vulnerabilities In Coursera, Including Exposed Student Email Addresses 31
How the Outdated TI-84 Plus Still Holds a Monopoly On Classrooms 359
Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? 546
Code.org Discloses Top Donors 59
In Maryland, a Soviet-Style Punishment For a Novelist 441
Feynman Lectures Released Free Online 70
Canada Tops List of Most Science-Literate Countries 221
Limiting the Teaching of the Scientific Process In Ohio 528
Statistics Losing Ground To CS, Losing Image Among Students 115
Free Law Casebook Project Starts With IP Coursebook 22
ACM Blames the PC For Driving Women Away From Computer Science 329
South Carolina Student Arrested For "Killing Pet Dinosaur" 421
It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart 243
Students From States With Faster Internet Tend To Have Higher Test Scores 175
Professor Steve Ballmer Will Teach At Two Universities This Year 179
Reading, Writing, 'Rithmetic, and Blockly 18
Is Remote Instruction the Future of College? 81
Student Bookstores Beware, Amazon Comes To Purdue Campus 95
About Half of Kids' Learning Ability Is In Their DNA 227
Chicago Mayor Praises Google For Buying Kids Microsoft Surfaces 137
Slashdot Asks: Should Schooling Be Year-Round? 421
Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? 637
MIT Considers Whether Courses Are Outdated 205
UK Spy Agency Certifies Master's Degrees In Cyber Security 45
How Many Members of Congress Does It Take To Pass a $400MM CS Bill? 180
"ExamSoft" Bar Exam Software Fails Law Grads 100
Reglue: Opening Up the World To Deserving Kids With Linux Computers 91
Valencia Linux School Distro Saves 36 Million Euro 158
AP Computer Science Test Takers Up 8,000; Pass Rate Down 6.8% 119
Chromebooks Are Outselling iPads In Schools 225
For Half, Degrees In Computing, Math, Or Stats Lead To Other Jobs 174
How One School District Handled Rolling Out 20,000 iPads 285
High School Students Not Waiting For Schools To Go Online 82
Math, Programming, and Language Learning 241
Interviews: Ask Dr. Andy Chun About Artificial Intelligence 71
ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source 158
Interviews: Juan Gilbert Answers Your Questions 18
How To Fix The Shortage of K-5 Scholastic Chess Facilitators 128
Elite Group of Researchers Rule Scientific Publishing 123
Geographic Segregation By Education 230
FCC Approves Subsidy Plan to Upgrade School and Library Networks 70
FCC Approves Plan To Spend $5B Over Next Five Years On School Wi-Fi 54
Prof. Andy Tanenbaum Retires From Vrije University 136
Interviews: Ask Juan Gilbert About Human-Centered Computing 30
Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language 415
Duolingo is a Free, Crowdsourced Language Learning App (Video) 75
Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? 113
Google Is Offering Free Coding Lessons To Women and Minorities 376
Match.com, Mensa Create Dating Site For Geniuses 561
What's Your STEM Degree Worth? 148
College Offers Athletic Scholarships To Gamers 102
Computational Thinking: AP Computer Science Vs AP Statistics? 155
Teaching College Is No Longer a Middle Class Job 538
Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative 548
Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools 649
Even In Digital Photography Age, High Schoolers Still Flock To the Darkroom 240
Starbucks Offers Workers 2 Years of Free College 169
Average HS Student Given Little Chance of AP CS Success 293
Ask Slashdot: PC-Based Oscilloscopes On a Microbudget? 172
Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional In California 519
South African Schools To Go Textbook Free 76
Interviews: Forrest Mims Answers Your Questions 161
Parents Mobilize Against States' Student Data Mining 139
Fixing the Humanities Ph.D. 325
Science Moneyball: The Secret to a Successful Academic Career 42
Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Earns One Million Dollars In Less Than a Day 164
Temporary Classrooms Are Bad For the Environment, and Worse For Kids 187
Belief In Evolution Doesn't Measure Science Literacy 772
Chelsea Clinton At NCWIT: More PE, Less Zuckerberg 255
Ph.Ds From MIT, Berkeley, and a Few Others Dominate Top School's CS Faculties 155
Microsoft Office Mix: No-Teacher-Left-Behind Course Authoring 27
Teachers Union: Computers Can Negatively Impact Children's Ability To Learn 310
Professors: US "In Denial" Over Poor Maths Standards 688
The Linux Foundation and edX Team Up for Intoduction to Linux Class 74
Fixing the Pain of Programming 294
The Big Biz of Spying On Little Kids 111
US College Students Still Aren't All That Interested In Computer Science 306
Zuckerberg's $100 Million Education Gift Solved Little 335
The Foundry Will Soon be a Makerspace in Bellingham, Washington (Video) 35
Lectures Aren't Just Boring, They're Ineffective, Too, Study Finds 166
Brazilian Kids Learning English By Video Chatting With Elderly Americans 147
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding 125
Wyoming Is First State To Reject Science Standards Over Climate Change 661
$200 For a Bound Textbook That You Can't Keep? 252
Stanford Getting Rid of $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock 208
Google Announces "Classroom" 143
Students Remember Lectures Better Taking Notes Longhand Than Using Laptops 191
Kids To Get the Best CS Teachers $15/Hr Can Buy 157
An MIT Dean's Defense of the Humanities 264
Google Halts Gmail Scanning for Education Apps Users 67
Coding Bootcamps Already 1/8th the Size of CS Undergraduates 92
Grading Software Fooled By Nonsense Essay Generator 187
MIT Bitcoin Project To Create Cryptocurrency Ecosystem, Give $100 Per Student 107
Programming Education Making A Comeback In Primary Schools 138
Finding the Next Generation of Teachers With "Innovative Microsoft Ads" 122
Master of Analytics Program Admission Rates Falling To Single Digits 74
Supreme Court Upholds Michigan's Ban On Affirmative Action In College Admissions 410
Parents' Privacy Concerns Kill 'Personalized Learning' Initiative 93
Our Education System Is Failing IT 306
Google: Better To Be a 'B' CS Grad Than an 'A+' English Grad 358
L.A. Science Teacher Suspended Over Student Science Fair Projects 253
Ask Slashdot: Hungry Students, How Common? 390
Minerva CEO Details His High-Tech Plan To Disrupt Universities 106
Kids Can Swipe a Screen But Can't Use LEGOs 355
Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge 798
Humans Are Taking Jobs From Robots In Japan 80
Bachelor's Degree: An Unnecessary Path To a Tech Job 287
Is Germany Raising a Generation of Illiterates? 431
Phil Shapiro says 20,000 Teachers Should Unite to Spread Chromebooks (Video) 101
93 Harvard Faculty Members Call On the University To Divest From Fossil Fuels 214
Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 673
Should Microsoft Give Kids Programmable Versions of Office? 226
It's Time To Bring Pseudoscience Into the Science Classroom 470
Ask Slashdot: the State of Open CS, IT, and DBA Courseware in 2014? 84
The Problem With Congress's Scientific Illiterates 509
Vint Cerf: CS Programs Must Change To Adapt To Internet of Things 163
State Colleges May Offer Best ROI On Comp Sci Degrees 127
Minnesota Teen Wins Settlement After School Takes Facebook Password 367
Ask Slashdot: Fastest, Cheapest Path To a Bachelor's Degree? 370
Ask Slashdot: Moving From Tech Support To Development? 133
Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework 278
How Did Bill Nye Become the Science Guy? 220
CEO Says One Laptop Per Child Project Has Achieved Its Goals 54
Why Buy Microsoft Milk When the Google Cow Is Free? 409
New Stanford Institute To Target Bad Science 86
The Poor Neglected Gifted Child 529
Eric Schmidt On Why College Is Still Worth It 281
Federal Student Aid Requirements At For-Profit Colleges Overhauled 295
Is the New "Common Core SAT" Bill Gates' Doing? 273
Is One Laptop Per Child Winding Down? 111
How St. Louis Is Bootstrapping Hundreds of Programmers 147
Computer Science Enrollments Rocketed Last Year, Up 22% 137
Google Chairman on WhatsApp: $19 Bn For 50 People? Good For Them! 303
Yik Yak, After Complaints From Schools, Suspends Its Service In Chicago 167
Ask Slashdot: Online, Free Equivalent To a CompSci BS? 197
School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA 417
$2,400 'Introduction To Linux' Course Will Be Free and Online This Summer 84
Amplify Education's New Intel Tablet Begs For Abuse 33
California District Launches Country's First All-Electric School Bus 94
Estimate: Academic Labs 11 Times More Dangerous Than Industrial Counterparts 153
Ask Slashdot: How Do I Change Tech Careers At 30? 451
Jewish School Removes Evolution Questions From Exams 431
College Board To Rethink the SAT, Partner With Khan Academy 134
The Other Oscars: White House Hi-Tech Ed Film Winners 5
Teaching Calculus To 5-Year-Olds 231
Ask Slashdot: Modern Web Development Applied Science Associates Degree? 246
U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt 538
Why We Need To Teach Hacking In High School 124
Code.org Resurrects 'Flappy Bird' As Programming Lesson 72
Will Peggy the Programmer Be the New Rosie the Riveter? 333
Do We Really Have a Shortage of STEM Workers? 491
Ask Slashdot: What Essays and Short Stories Should Be In a Course On Futurism? 293
Oklahoma Schools Required To Teach Students Personal Finance 304
All In All, Kids Just Another Brick In the Data Wall 110

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