Education Stories for 2009

How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program? 799
Simplifying Search For a Younger Audience 72
OLPC Unveils Plans For Tablets By 2012 102
The US Economy Needs More "Cool" Nerds 453
Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments 806
License For Textbooks — GNU FDL Or CC? 8
Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08 245
Interactive Computer Exhibits For Ages 3-8? 122
How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence 928
Devices To Take Textbooks Beyond Text 115
SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing 295
Children Using Technology Have Better Literacy Skills 146
SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation 621
Colleges Struggling With the Digital Bathroom Wall 262
Computer Games and Traditional CS Courses 173
Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort 801
Pittsburgh To Tax Students 344
Public School Teachers Selling Lesson Plans Online 590
Free Software For All Russian Schools In Jeopardy 265
90% of 200 CUNY Students Can't Do Basic Algebra Problems 20
Attack of the PowerPoint-Wielding Professors 467
Comic Books Improve Early Childhood Literacy 127
Colleges Secretly Test Music-Industry Project 208
Negroponte Hints At Paper-Like Design For XO-3 69
How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? 823
Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students 551
Internet Archive Puts 1.6M E-Books On OLPC Laptops 106
Student Loan Interest Rankles College Grads 1259
Getting Students To Think At Internet Scale 98
MIT Axes the 500-Word Application Essay 441
What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? 1021
New Bill Proposes Open Source Requirement for Publicly Funded Books 317
What To Cover In a Short "DIY Tech" Course? 256
Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year 1073
In Trial, Kindles Disappointing University Users 247
AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks 501
Computers To Mark English Essays 243
New OLPC Laptop 1.5 Dual-Boots Sugar, Gnome Desktop 81
Best Tablet PC For Classroom Instruction? 176
One Telescope Per Child 63
"Going Google" Exposes Students' Email 244
Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? 857
Bringing Convenience and Open Source Methods To Higher Education 165
RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum 507
New York's Video-Game-Based Public School 214
Heart Monitors In Middle School Gym Class? 950
Chinese Schools Ax Green Dam Censorship Software 53
How To Make Science Popular Again? 899
Students Take Pictures From Space On $150 Budget 215
Crytek Giving Away CryEngine To UK Universities 67
OLPC 1.5 Hardware Upgrades Include Java, Full-Screen Video 67
Does Your College Or University Support Linux? 835
The Case For Mandatory Touch-Typing In High School 705
Google Books As "Train Wreck" For Scholars 160
All-You-Can-Eat College For $99-a-Month 272
New England Prep School Library Goes Entirely Digital 168
Educause Announces Plans To Sign .edu TLD With DNSSEC 49
Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days 443
Habitual Multitaskers Do It Badly 386
New Species of Worms Found To Release "Bombs" 104
Taiwan University Students Build Tour-Guide Robot 35
Advice On Creating an Open Source Textbook? 178
The Mindset of the Incoming College Freshmen 383
Simple, Portable Physics Simulations 145
14-Year-Old Wins International Programming Contest 141
Open Textbooks Win Over Publishers In CA 216
US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal 490
Parents Baffled By Science Questions 656
Science, Technology, Natural History Museums? 435
21st International Olympiad of Informatics Opens, In Bulgaria and Online 74
What's In an Educational Game? 160
Navigating a Geek Marriage? 1146
Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable 1251
Students Settle With TurnItIn In Copyright Case 208
Cheap, Cross-Platform Electronic Circuit Simulation Software? 211
School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones 785
Blackboard Patent Invalidated By Appellate Court 142
Should Copyright of Academic Works Be Abolished? 349
Ivan Krstić Says Negroponte's Wrong About Sugar and OLPC 137
26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive 921
U of Michigan and Amazon To Offer 400,000 OOP Books 160
Negroponte Sees Sugar As OLPC's Biggest Mistake 268
Study Catches Birds Splitting Into Separate Species 153
Low-Budget Electronics Projects For High School? 364
Bill Gates Puts Classic Feynman Lectures Online 338
Tomorrow's Science Heroes? 799
Which Language Approach For a Computer Science Degree? 537
How To Teach Programming To Kids, Via XBox 124
We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? 398
Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Students 354
Is the Kindle DX Worth the Money? 263
HTML Tags For Academic Printing? 338
Middle-School Strip Search Ruled Unconstitutional 528
Cornell Computer Theft Puts 45,000 At Risk of Identity Theft 91
OLPC Fork Sugar On a Stick Goes 1.0 146
Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" 1144
Univ. of Wisconsin's 30-Year-Old Payroll System Needs a $40 Million Fix 418
Getting Beyond the Helldesk 474
Student Who Released Code From Assignments Accused of Cheating 333
Wolfram Alpha Rekindles Campus Math Tool Debate 339
Teen Diagnoses Her Own Disease In Science Class 582
China Dominates In NSA-Backed Coding Contest 316
California To Move To Online Textbooks 468
Kids Score 40 Percent Higher When They Get Paid For Grades 716
11-Year-Old Graduates With Degree In Astrophysics 648
Solution For College's Bad Network Policy? 699
Clemson Staffer Outlines College Rankings Manipulation 163
The Myth of the Mathematics Gender Gap 588
Keeping a PC Personal At School? 695
University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy 252
VHDL or Verilog For Learning FPGAs? 301
Judge Says Boston Student's Laptop Was Seized Illegally 190
The Case For Working With Your Hands 386
Students, the Other Unprotected Lab Animals 236
Wikipedia Moving From GFDL To Creative Commons License 90
Rutgers Attempts Robot Atlantic Crossing 67
MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX 674
Ball And Chain To Force Children To Study 346
Break-In Compromises 160k Medical Records At UC Berkeley 167
Go For a Masters, Or Not? 834
Open Source Textbooks For California 201
MPAA Says Teachers Should Camcord For Fair Use 286
Princeton Boasts Its Kindle Project Is Noblest 116
College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses 452
South Carolina To Give 1 Laptop Per School Child 279
Norway Trying Out Laptops For High School Exams 120
Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? 1322
Competition Seeks Best Approaches To Detecting Plagiarism 289
2009 ACM Programming Contest Results and Webcast 49
Fair Use Affirmed In Turnitin Case 315
BYU Prof. Says University Classrooms Will Be "Irrelevant" By 2020 469
MIT Tracking Campus Net Connections Since 1999 125
College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior 1079
Facebook Users Get Lower Grades In College 284
Dead Birds Do Tell Tales 21
Mixed Outcome of Texas Textbook Vote 646
Best Grad Program For a Computer Science Major? 372
Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told 412
RIP the Campus Computer Lab, 1960-2009 571
Proposal Suggests UK Students Study Wikipedia and Twitter 252
With a Computer Science Degree, an Old Man At 35? 918
MIT To Make All Faculty Publications Open Access 164
Strip-Search Case Tests Limits of 4th Amendment 1240
Texas Vote May Challenge Teaching of Evolution 1306
Want a Science Degree In Creationism? 848
Google Summer of Code Announces Mentor Projects 44
How To Get High-Schoolers Involved In Real Science? 314
Computer Science Major Is Cool Again 328
What Filters Are Right For Kids? 678
Video Game Teaches Kenyan Youth HIV-Safety 75
Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? 1316
Women Skip Math/Science Careers To Have Families 616
Collaborative Academic Writing Software? 328
US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy 1038
Windows Security and On-line Training Courses? 189
OLPC Set To Dump x86 For Arm Chips In XO 2 274
A High School Programming Curriculum For All Students? 214
Oklahoma, Vatican Take Opposite Tacks On Evolution 1161
Website Does Homework For Kids 166
Good Robot Projects For K-5? 136
Outliers, The Story Of Success 357
Smart Immigrants Going Home 770
Open Source In Public K-12 Schools? 323
350,000 Linux (Virtual) Desktops Land In Brazil 109
Student Arrested For Classroom Texting 1246
Physics Experiments To Inspire Undergraduates? 249
UK University Making Universal Game Emulator 217
Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live 951
Ruckus Closes Down 125
Mathematics Reading List For High School Students? 630
How Do I Start a University Transition To Open Source? 497
Walter Bender — Taking Sugar Beyond the XO Laptop 84
NASA and Google To Back New "Singularity University" 294
Students Call Space Station With Home-Built Radio 330
Involving Kids In Free Software Through Games 33
Learning To Read With Click and Jane 115
OLPC 2.0 — One Laptop Foundation Reboots 187
Teachers Need an Open Source Education 440
Nintendo Brain Games Effectiveness Questioned 63
Summer Research Programs? 87
U.C. System and Springer Agree To CC-Licensed Journal Articles 54
UC Berkeley Offering Starcraft Course 148
Best IT Solution For a Brand-New School? 411
Long-Term PC Preservation Project? 465
Texas Board of Education Supports Evolution 344
A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? 931
Independent Games Festival Announces Student Showcase Winners 16
MIT Moves Away From Massive Lecture Halls 317
How Microsoft Beats GNU/Linux In Schools 476
Class Teaches Nerds Social Skills 639
OLPC Downsizes Half of Its Staff, Cuts Sugar 379
Are My Ideas Being Stolen? If So, What Then? 508
Universities Patenting More Student Ideas 383
FIRST Robotics Competition Announced 73
Interesting Computer Science Jobs? 352