Education Stories for 2012

Adafruit To Teach Electronics Through Puppets In New Kids Show 68
Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest 630
Real World Code Sucks 292
Learn Linux the Hard Way 185
How Much Are You Worth To an Online Lead-Gen Site? 83
Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer? 514
UK Students Protest Biometric Scanner Move 196
Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Summer Camp Tech Center? 49
27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting 2987
Learning Rocket Science With Video Games 64
Hacked Review System Leads To Fake Reviews and Retraction of Scientific Papers 67
Degree Hack: Cobbling Together Credit Hours For Cheap 368
Professor Cliff Lampe Talks About Gamification in Academia (Video) 123
Coderdojo Inspires Coding In Kids As Young As Seven 40
Providers of Free MOOCs Now Charge Employers For Access To Student Data 40
Just Say No To College 716
Khan Academy: the Future of Taxpayer Reeducation? 386
Ask Slashdot: Software For Learning About Data Transmission? 79
UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact 783
Critic Cites Revenge of the Sith As "Generation's Greatest Work of Art" 376
Virus Eats School District's Homework 321
Real-World Cyber City Used To Train Cyber Warriors 59
Rise of the Online Code Schools 98
Cambridge University To Open "Terminator Center" To Study Threat From AI 274
Cyber Corps Program Trains Spies For the Digital Age, In Oklahoma 118
Another Player In the World of Free, Open Online CS Courseware 64
Judge Issues Temporary Order Blocking Expulsion For Refusing To Wear RFID Tag 305
Judge Demands Email and Facebook Passwords From Women In Sexual Harassment Case 218
Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order 743
Young Students Hiding Academic Talent To Avoid Bullying 684
Linux On the TI-Nspire Graphing Calculator 49
How Free Speech Died On Campus 530
Computer Science vs. Software Engineering 322
Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes 409
Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago 637
Ask Slashdot: How To Catch Photoshop Plagiarism? 284
With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race 622
Color-Screen TI-84 Plus Calculator Leaked 245
MOOC Mania 102
Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner? 361
Ask Slashdot: Finding Work Over 60? 306
Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors, Says Florida Task Force 457
A Trail of Clicks, Culminating In Conflict 65
Phil Shapiro: Slashdot Reader, FOSS Activist, and Library Computer Guy (Video) 30
Publisher of Free Textbooks Says It Will Now Charge For Them, Instead 156
Constant Technology Use May Hamper Kids' Ability To Learn 163
Are Teachers Headed For Obsolescence? 570
Ask Slashdot: Funding Models For a Free E-book? 128
Supreme Court To Hear First Sale Doctrine Case 242
Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance? 823
Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky 371
Huston Huddleston Wants You To Help Save the Star Trek TNG Set 131
How Do You Spot a Genius? 385
Free Online Education Unwelcome In Minnesota 240
Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry 866
Faculty To Grad Students: Go Work 80-Hour Weeks! 454
Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar 540
Millions of Blogs Knocked Offline By Legal Row 162
From a NAND Gate To Tetris 103
Ask Slashdot: Best Book Or Game To Introduce Kids To Programming? 246
Pedagogical Bundle Lets You Pay What You Want For Educational Software 57
Ask Slashdot: Best Linux Game For Young Kids? 338
Pennsylvania Fracking Law Opens Up Drilling On College Campuses 208
The New School Nurse Is Nurse Ratched 196
Pressure Rises On German Science Minister In Plagiarism Scandal 130
Start-Up Wants To Open Up Science Journals and Eliminate Paywalls 74
The Case For the Blue Collar Coder 233
Ask Slashdot: What Were You Taught About Computers In High School? 632
Take a Free Networking Class From Stanford 128
Oatmeal Fundraiser a Success; Non-Profit Buys Land For Tesla Museum 67
US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell 1113
ROSALIND: An Addictive Bioinformatics Learning Site 38
WTFM: Write the Freaking Manual 299
African Robotics Network Challenge Spurs Rash of $10 Robots 60
Teachers Write an Open Textbook In a Weekend Hackathon 109
Brown Signs California Bill For Free Textbooks 201
The Rage For MOOCs 109
Microsoft Calls For $5B Investment In U.S. Education 257
Promoting Arithmetic and Algebra By Example 158
Why One Person Thinks Raspberry Pi Is Unsuitable For Education 133
Nearly All Particle Physics Research To Be Open Access 27
Presentation Scales In Massive Online Courses; Does Interaction? 63
Gates and Others Offer $150k For Open Source School Software 151
How Microsoft Is Wooing College Kids To Write Apps For Windows 8 187
Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art 371
Ask Slashdot: Where Should a Geek's Charitable Donations Go? 263
Ask Slashdot: Teaching Typing With Limited Electricity, Computers? 325
Why America's School "Lag" Has Never Mattered 361
Can Anyone Become a Programmer? 767
Chicago Teachers Rip 'Big Money Interest Groups' 404
Ask Slashdot: How To Prove IT Knowledge Without Expensive Certificates? 186
George Albercook Teaches Kids About Space with High-Altitude Balloons (Video) 21
University Team Builds Lego and Raspberry Pi Cluster 147
Is a Computer Science Degree Worth Getting Anymore? 630
School Regrets Swapping Laptops For iPads 504
The Problems With Online Math Classes 285
Ask Slashdot: Best Computer For a 7-Year Old? 423
Finnish Bureaucracy Takes Issue With Crowdfunded Textbook 149
Science Wins Over Creationism In South Korea 302
Do Tech Entrepreneurs Need To Know How To Code? 202
The Gates Foundation Engages Its Critics 216
Estonia To Teach Programming In Schools From Age 6 307
With 'Access Codes,' Textbook Pricing More Complicated Than Ever 400
Khan Academy Pilot Educators On Khan Academy 110
Do We Need a Longer School Year? 729
University of Cambridge Offers Free Online Raspberry Pi Course 99
Gamma-Ray Photon Observations Indicate Space-Time Is Smooth 81
Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children 1774
Ask Slashdot: How Did You Become a Linux Professional? 298
Serious Problems With USB and Ethernet On the Raspberry Pi 202
Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study 585
Why Professors Love (and Loathe) Technology 113
U.C. Berkeley Offers Free "Big Data" Class This Week 16
Science and Math Enrollments Reach New High In UK 91
Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests 1218
Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? 454
Dozens of Reported Plagiarism Incidents On Coursera's Free Online Courses 210
Ask Slashdot: Worth Going For a Graduate Degree In the Middle of Your Career? 260
Khan Academy Launches Computer Science Curriculum 146
Forget 6-Minute Abs: Learn To Code In a Day 306
Ask Slashdot: Open Source Software To Manage Student Grades? 120
Creating a School Computer Lab With Ubuntu For $0 229
In Hacker Highschool, Students Learn To Redesign the Future 85
Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? 1086
Will Online Learning Disrupt Programming Language Adoption? 193
Bilingual Kids Show More Creativity 221
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Take Notes In the Modern Classroom? 364
Ask Slashdot: Good Books and Tools For a Software/Hardware Hobbyist? 85
Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? 1010
Amazon Offers To Help Train Workers For Other Jobs 148
Khan Academy: the Teachers Strike Back 575
Prime Ministerial Plagiarism Farce Continues In Romania 60
Can Anyone Catch Khan Academy? 190
Obama Wants $1 Billion For "Master Teachers Corps" 561
One Tablet Per Child Program Begins In Thailand 90
Security Camp Is Not Space Camp, Just Based On It (Video) 38
Nobel Laureate Wiped From Pakistan's Textbooks As Heretic 445
Does Grammar Matter Anymore? 878
South Korea Will Revisit Plan To Nix Evolution References in Textbooks 286
School's In For Summer At Udacity 105
WHO Says Afghan School "Poison Attacks" Probably Mass Hysteria 146
University Sues Student For Graduating Early 232
A Critical Examination of Bill Gates' Philanthropic Record 370
Why Mark Zuckerberg Is a Bad Role Model For Aspiring Tech Execs 326
UK Universities Launch Cloud Supercomputer For Hire 25
Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills 734
UK Universities Caught With Weak SSL Security 40
Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education 575
Fundamentalist Schools Using "Nessie" To Disprove Evolution 936
Are We Failing To Prepare Children For Leadership In the US? 754
Teaching Natural Sciences To Social Science Students? 265
Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire 404
Fastest Growing US Export To China: Education 147
Ask Slashdot: What To Do Before College? 335
Valve Unveils Steam For Schools, Portal In the Classroom 83
Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers 1201
University Students Become Superheroes To Teach STEM Education 55
Women's Enrollment In Computer Science Correlates Negatively With Net Access 314
Bloomberg, WSJ: Student Aid Increases Tuition 433
U.S. Students Struggle With Reasoning Skills 488
Romanian Prime Minister Accused of Plagiarism 64
The $100 Masters Degree From Udacity 191
Too Many Biomedical Graduate Students, Not Enough Jobs 226
Analyzing Climate Change On Carbon Rich Peat Bogs 163
Ask Slashdot: Best Choice of Linux Laptops For Elementary School? 310
The History of the CompSci Degree 126
Journal Offers Flat Fee For 'All You Can Publish' 53
Patent Granted on Mandatory Digital Keys to Prevent Textbook Piracy 168
Ask Slashdot: Best Training To Rekindle a Long Tech Career? 162
Ask Slashdot: Advice On Child-Friendly Microscopes? 118
Ask Slashdot: Getting a Tech Job With Skills But No Formal Degree? 266
Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? 701
Cognitive Software Identifies America's Brainiest Cities 143
Online Courses and the $100 Graduate Degree 339
Grad Student Wins Alan Alda's Flame Challenge 161
Classroom Clashes Over Science Education 493
Why Kids Should Be Building Rockets Instead of Taking Tests 381
Taking Issue With Claims That American Science Education is 'Dismal' 564
DHS Best-and-Brightest STEM Program Under Fire 108
Report Says Schools Need 100Mbps Per 1,000 Users 292
Ask Slashdot. Best Online Science Course? 166
The Real-Life Doogie Howser 303
First Steps With the Raspberry Pi 241
Students Looking For Easy A Target Online Courses, Where Cheating Is Easier 241
Speech Recognition Using the Raspberry Pi 74
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With a Math Degree? 416
In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins 1359
Backyard Brains Can Help Satisfy Your Inner Frankenstein (Video) 199
Scientific Literacy vs. Concern Over Climate Change 545
Another Afghan School Poisoned — 160 Girls Hospitalized 474
350-Year-Old Newton's Puzzle Solved By 16-Year-Old 414
Barter-Based School Catching On Globally 118
Faculty Votes For Open Access Policy At UC San Francisco 146
Google Funds Raspberry Pi And CS Teachers For UK Schools 165
Machine-Guided Learning Matches Teachers In Study 76
Maryland Teen Wins World's Largest Science Fair 193
Programming — Now Starting In Elementary School 162
Ask Slashdot: Best Degree For a Late Career Boost? 234
Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test 580
Univ. of Minnesota Compiles Database of Peer-Reviewed, Open-Access Textbooks 54
U. Chicago's Epic Scavenger Hunt Is Back For 2012 56
Complaint Challenges Univ. of Hawaii Email Partnership Wth Google 172
GOP Blocks Senate Debate On Dem Student Loan Bill 834
Australian Government Backs OLPC 60
Universities Hold Transcripts Hostage Over Loans 541
Missouri High School Principal Resigns After Posing As Student On Facebook 190
Raspberry Pi Reviewed, With an Initial Setup Guide 188
Yahoo CEO Wrongly Claimed To Have Degree In Computer Science 363
German Science Minister Faces Plagiarism Scandal 166
NYC Teachers Forbidden To "Friend" Students 238
Automated Dorm Room Causes a School Inquiry 170
MIT And Harvard Start New Online Education Partnership 60
Univ. of Florida Announces Plan To Save CS Department 112
Is Stanford Too Close To Silicon Valley? 171
Harvard: Journals Too Expensive, Switch To Open Access 178
University of Minnesota Launches Review Project For Open Textbooks 133
How Good Are Robo-Graders? 157
The Crisis of Government-Funded Science 194
University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department 628
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 30th Anniversary 212
MIT Hack Turns the Green Building Into a Giant Game of Tetris 65
Coursera: Dozens of Free, Massive, and Open Online Courses 101
Surgery-Simulating Dummy Allows Doctors To Develop Skills 30
Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls 707
Florida Thinks Their Students Are Too Stupid To Know the Right Answers 663
Student Charged For Re-selling Textbooks 489
VA Court To Review "Official" Email Rules 102
All Hands Active in Ann Arbor is a Makerspace for All Ages (Video) 35
Raspberry Pi Arrives, With a School Debut In Leeds 148
University of Pittsburgh Deluged With Internet Bomb Threats 238
Ask Slashdot: Best Book For 11-Year-Old Who Wants To Teach Himself To Program? 525
Etsy Hacker Grants Support Female Programmers 211
Tennessee "Teaching the Controversy" Bill Becomes Law 672
OLPC Australia Pushes Boundaries of Education 37
US CompSci Enrollment Up For 4th Year Running 101
Major Textbook Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up 278
Intel Aims 'One Tablet Per Child' Program at Developing Countries 93
OLPC Project Disappoints In Peru 274
Ask Slashdot: Advice For Budding Scientist? 279
Polish Government To Deliver Free Textbooks For All Kids Grades 4-6 80
Do Tablets Help Children Learn? 223
Tensions Between Archivists and 'Occupy' Protesters Over Preserving the Movement 153
Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Schools Connected? 568
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Note-Taking Device For Conferences? 300
A 'Radical Manifesto' For Computer Teaching In English Schools 108
Bringing Auto-Graders To Student Essays 227
Raspberry Pi Gets a Red-Tape Delay; Awaits CE Certificate 135
Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity 349
NYC Bans Mention of Dinosaurs, Dancing, Birthdays On Student Tests 470
Parlez-vous Python? 164

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