Education Stories for 2015

US Dept. of Ed: English, History, and Civics Teachers Good Enough For CS Class 242
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Into Machine Learning? 123
Merry Christmas - Be an Erector Engineer! 200
Did Google and the Hour of Code Get "Left" and "Right" Wrong? 107
College Board Mainstreams AP Computer Science 69
Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries 519
Ask Slashdot: Resources For Explaining Statistics For the Very First Time? 90
White House Expected To Announce Big Computer Science Push 161
12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School 954
"Credible" Bomb Threat Closes, Evacuates All Los Angeles Public Schools 241
NASA Looks To PlayStation VR To Train Space Robot Operators 13
North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun 760
WSJ: New Education Bill To Get More Coding In Classrooms 88
Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. 200
Stephen Wolfram's Free Book Teaches the Wolfram Language To Kids 105
Ask Slashdot: How Will You Be Programming In a Decade? 279
Programming Education: Selling People a Lie? 397
New Scientific Journal To Publish "Discrete Observations Rather Than Complete Stories" 45
Why the Raspberry Pi Zero Isn't a Practical Tool For Teaching Students 190
Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To 131
NSF Antes Up $200K For Spin-off of Microsoft-Funded 'Code Trip' TV Show 22
Rikers Inmates Learn How To Code Without Internet Access 173
Purdue Experiments With Income-Contingent Student Loans 230
Texas Narrowly Rejects Allowing Academics To Fact-Check Public School Textbooks 337
The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital 399
Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? 168
Value of University Degree Continues To Decline 393
The Next Big IT Projects From the University Labs 29
Hour of Code 2015 Star Wars Tutorial: Spare the IF Statement, Spoil the Child? 156
Andrew Tanenbaum Announces MINIXcon 104
Celebrate the 200th Birthday of George Boole With Logic 63
University Reprimands Professor For Assigning Cheaper Textbook 363
Revisiting Why Johnny Can't Code: Have We "Made the Print Too Small"? 270
National Coalition Calls for Campus Censorship of "Offensive" Speech 585
When Does School Life Begin? Zuckerberg's New School To Admit Fetuses 170
Official, Customized Raspberry Pi Versions Coming Soon 93
Despite $30M Tech Push, Half of US States Had Fewer Than 300 AP CS Test Takers 152
Study: Standardized Tests Overwhelming Public Schools 278
Coding Academies -- Useful Or Nonsense? 132
Google, Facebook, Microsoft Deliver K-12 CS Demands To Congress 120
Ask Slashdot: Worthwhile Security Training Courses? 70
'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar 621
Naval Academy Reinstates Teaching of Celestial Navigation 350
Jefferson-Designed Chemistry Lab Discovered In UVA Rotunda 249
Treat Computer Science As a Science: It's the Law 219
Can a New Type of School Churn Out Developers Faster? 241
Scientists Hope To Attract Millions To "DNA.LAND" 32
Chicago Mayor Calls For National Computer Coding Requirement In Schools 217
MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' 112
Prison Debate Team Beats Harvard's National Title Winners 191
eSports Now a Part of College Athletics 110
Europe Code Week 2015: Cocktails At Microsoft, 'Ode To Code' Robot Dancing 15
4 Calif. Students Arrested For Alleged Mass-Killing Plot 452
Hour of Code Kicks Off In Chile With Dog Poop-Themed CS Tutorial 49
Soon-to-Be US Ed Chief Was Almost FB CEO's Ed Chief 30
10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College 1165
Houston's Gifted Education Program Biased Against Blacks and Latinos 445
When Schools Overlook Introverts 307
Jeff Atwood NY Daily News Op-Ed: Learning To Code Is Overrated 300
Stop Taking All the Fun Out of Science 246
Girls-Only Computer Camps Formed At Behest of Top Google, Facebook Execs 449
Ask Slashdot: Herding Cats, Aging Systems? 158
RIP: Tech Advocate and Obama Advisor Jake Brewer 142
Microsoft Spending $75M To Boost K-12 CS Education, Put TEALS In 4,000 Schools 48
Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events 662
Trademark Trolls Stops University Nicknames 102
The Answer To the High Cost of College: 42% Cut In Tuition 143
Are Non-Technical Certifications Worth Earning? 118
NYC Counting On Donations To Fund Required K-12 Computer Science Programs 21
APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code 255
Report: Computers 'Do Not Improve' Pupil Results 283
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? 218
GameStart Uses Minecraft to Teach Kids Programming (Video 2) 18
How Fine-Grained Will New Credentialism Get: Credit For Watching a TED Talk? 102
Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change 591
University Employees Suspended Due To Guest Worker Scandal 209
GameStart Uses Minecraft to Teach Kids Programming (Video 1) 30
Do Tech Firms Really Want Liberal Arts Majors? 266
Intel Drops Support For Science Talent Search 115
Software Takes On School Science Tests In Search For Common Sense 44
Ask Slashdot: Cheapest Functional Computer For Students? 508
White House Petition To Let Foreign STEM Grads Work Longer In US Hits 100K Signatures 216
Get Big Fast: "500 Club" Delivers Teachers For Code.org 28
Facebook's Solution To 'One of Education's Biggest Problems' Is a Dashboard 63
Lack of Teacher Training Hampers UK Programming Education 112
Survey: More Women Are Going Into Programming 280
You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code 616
NSF Makes It Rain: $722K Award To Evaluate Microsoft-Backed TEALS 64
Buzzwords Are Stifling Innovation In College Teaching 95
Wired: IBM's School Could Fix Education and Tech's Diversity Gap 176
Ask Slashdot: Technical Resources For Non-Technical Disciplines? 87
Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness 588
The Case For Teaching Ignorance 237
As Coursera Evolves, Colleges Stay On and Investors Buy In 46
Standardized Tests Blamed, Asian Students Ignored In Google-Gallup K-12 CS Study 184
Stopping Universities From Hoarding Money 274
Another Slew of Science Papers Retracted Because of Fraud 186
Rupert Murdoch Won't Be Teaching Your Children To Code After All 57
Is There an Ed-Tech Critic In the House? 61
XKCD Author's New Unpublished Book Becomes Scientific Best-Seller 90
Lawsuit Over Two-Word Tweet Moves Forward 220
Federal Judge Calls BS On Homeland Security's 2008 STEM 'Emergency' 142
UK Industry Group Boss: Study Arts So Games Are Not Designed By 'Spotty Nerds' 207
Massachusetts Embraces Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education 38
Ask Slashdot: Switching To a GNU/Linux Distribution For a Webdesign School 233
Google: Poor Kids Might Grasp Macbeth If They Code Like Kids At $43K/Yr School 144
Leading the Computer Revolution In a Totalitarian State 75
CollegeBoard: Analyses of CS Study Benefits Shouldn't Be Interpreted As Causal 131
Computer Science Enrollments Match NASDAQ's Rises and Fall 67
Senate Passes 'No Microsoft National Talent Strategy Goal Left Behind Act' 132
Melinda Gates: Facebook Engineers Have Solved One of Education's Biggest Problem 162
CanSat Helps Students Make & Launch Sub-Orbital 'Satellites' (Video) 22
Why Certifications Are Necessary (Even If Aggravating To Earn) 213
US Wins Math Olympiad For First Time In 21 Years 280
Silicon Valley Still Wrestling With Diversity Issues 398
Microsoft Uses US Women's Soccer Team To Explain Why It Doesn't Hire More Women 212
Interviews: Ask Dr. Temple Grandin About Animals and Autism 131
Larry Wall On Perl 6, Language Design, and Getting Kids To Code 133
As Big Data Plateaus, Data Science Education Grows 41
For Microsoft, Windows 10 Charity Begins At Home 74
University of Toronto: Anti-vaccine Homeopathy Course Is Fine 273
CSTA: Google Surveying Educators On Unconscious Biases of Students, Parents 173
Well-Played: Microsoft Parlays NSF Video 'Remake' Into National CS K-12 Crisis 69
The College Majors Most Likely To Marry Each Other 90
13% of CompSci Grads Have Starting Salaries Over $100K 264
Are Certifications Worth the Time and Money? 296
Microsoft Offers Washington a Bargain: More State Taxes, For More Education 161
BBC Reveals Its New Microcomputer Design 97
Even the "Idea Person" Should Learn How To Code 217
Watching People Code Is Becoming an (Even Bigger) Thing 135
Microsoft To Launch Minecraft Education Portal For Teachers 56
Pew Survey Documents Gaps Between Public and Scientists 278
Struggling University of Phoenix Lays Off 900 133
How Computer Science Education Got Practical (Again) 154
AP CS Test Takers and Pass Rates Up, Half of Kids Don't Get Sparse Arrays At All 128
New Google and CMU Moonshot: the 'Teacherless Classroom' 89
Learn-to-Code Program For 10,000 Low-Income Girls 473
Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes? 490
Ask Slashdot: Best Setups For Navigating a Programming-Focused MOOC? 39
Microsoft Funds First US-Based Chinese Research University Degree Program 27
School Lunch Program Scans Student Thumbprints For 'Tracking Purposes' 141
Video Games Can Improve Terror Attack Preparedness, Even If You Don't Play Them 76
The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are 306
Ask Slashdot: How to Avoid The Worst of a Tech Bubble? 135
Commodore PC Still Controls Heat and A/C At 19 Michigan Public Schools 456
Starcoder Uses a Multiplayer Game to Teach Programming (Video # 2) 11
Turning a Nail Polish Disaster Into a Teachable Math Moment 126
Starcoder Uses a Multiplayer Game to Teach Programming (Video # 1) 37
WA Gov. Sides With Microsoft: Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education Now the Law 166
San Francisco Public Schools To Require Computer Science For Preschoolers 179
Freedom of Information Requests Turn Up Creationist Materials In Schools 479
How American Students Can Get a University Degree For Free In Germany 528
Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" 1032
Everyone Hates Harvard 348
Linux World Domination Creates Shortage of Linux-Skilled Workers 72
Technology Won't Fix America's Neediest Schools -- It Makes Bad Education Worse 150
Khan Academy Seeks Patents On Learning Computer Programming, Social Programming 97
Chinese Nationals Accused of Taking SATs For Others 220
Australia's Prime Minister Doesn't Get Why Kids Should Learn To Code 306
A Ph.D Thesis Defense Delayed By Injustice 77 Years 134
How Much C++ Should You Know For an Entry-Level C++ Job? 336
Clinton Foundation: Kids' Lack of CS Savvy Threatens the US Economy 208
Elon Musk Establishes a Grade School 234
Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders 446
Google and Gates-Backed Khan Academy Introduces "Grit"-Based Classroom Funding 119
Video Games: Gateway To a Programming Career? 170
Student Photographer Threatened With Suspension For Sports Photos 379
Ask Slashdot: Career Advice For an Aging Perl Developer? 271
Learn About The Technology Education And Literacy in Schools Program (Video #2) 11
AP Computer Science Education Scalability: Advantage, Rupert Murdoch? 47
Learn About The Technology Education And Literacy in Schools Program (Video) 17
Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? 302
Microsoft To Teachers: Using Pens and Paper Not Fair To Students 387
Schools That Ban Mobile Phones See Better Academic Results 113
Gates, Zuckerberg Promising Same Jobs To US Kids and Foreign H-1B Workers? 249
Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint 529
College Board Puts Code.org In Charge of AP CS Program 78
Academics Call For Greater Transparency About Google's Right To Be Forgotten 57
Bill Gates Still Trying To Buy Some Common Core Testing Love 284
SEC Charges ITT Educational Services With Fraud 85
Microsoft-Backed Think Tank: K-12 CS Education Cure For Sagging US Productivity 131
Volunteer Bob Paulin Turns Kids on to Tech with Devoxx4Kids (Video) 12
The Ambitions and Challenges of Mesh Networks and the Local Internet Movement 56
Led By Zuckerberg, Billionaires Give $100M To Fund Private Elementary Schools 227
Unable To Hack Into Grading System, Georgia Student Torches Computer Lab 246
My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold 628
Obama Announces e-Book Scheme For Low-Income Communities 126
White House Outsources K-12 CS Education To Infosys Charity 88
Australia To Grade Written Essays In National Exam With Cognitive Computing 109
Ask Slashdot: How Should I Build a Maker Space For a Liberal Arts College? 167
University Overrules Professor Who Failed Entire Management Class 355
How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers 634
Imagination To Release Open MIPS Design To Academia 63
The Future Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher 352
Think Tanks: How a Bill [Gates Agenda] Becomes a Law 165
Virtual Reality Games Can Improve Memory Retention of Safety Instructions 36
How Publishing Upstart Mendeley Weathered Revolt and Became Part of the Paywall 81
LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School 599
LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan 325
Can Online Reporting System Help Prevent Sexual Assaults On Campus? 234
MIT Celebrates 10 Years of SCIgen Bogus CompSci Paper Generator With New Tool 13
Cornell Study: For STEM Tenure Track, Women Twice As Likely To Be Hired As Men 517
US Dept. of Education Teams With Microsoft-Led Teach.org On Teacher Diversity 148
Report: Chinese Government Plans To Put 3D Printers In All Elementary Schools 99
Microsoft Pushes For Public Education Funding While Avoiding State Taxes 173
Cannabis Smoking Makes Students Less Likely To Pass University Courses 291
Florida Teen Charged With Felony Hacking For Changing Desktop Wallpaper 629
German Teenager Gets Job Offer By Trying To Use FOI For His Exam Papers 114
Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce a 7-Year-Old To Programming? 315
Senate Draft of No Child Left Behind Act Draft Makes CS a 'Core' Subject 216
The Cyberlearning Technologies Transforming Education 19
Why CSI: Cyber Matters 141
Prosecutors Get an 'A' On Convictions of Atlanta Ed-Reform-Gone-Bad Test Cheats 201
Slashdot Asks: What Will You (Or Your Kids) Learn This Summer? 81
Stanford Turns To Pair Programming: 1 CS Education For the Price of 2? 121
If You Thought Studying History Was Bad, This Math Professor Is Making It Harder 75
The End of College? Not So Fast 145
Why America's Obsession With STEM Education Is Dangerous 397
No Film At 11: the Case For the Less-Video-Is-More MOOC 87
NJ School District Hit With Ransomware-For-Bitcoins Scheme 167
Wikipedia Admin's Manipulation "Messed Up Perhaps 15,000 Students' Lives" 264
Obama To Announce $240M In New Pledges For STEM Education 149
Finland's Education System Supersedes "Subjects" With "Topics" 213
Hundreds Expelled, Many Arrested, For Cheating In India's School Exams 233
Arkansas Is Now the First State To Require That High Schools Teach Coding 211
Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Laptop To Support Physics Research? 385
Global Learning XPRIZE Senior Director Matt Keller Answers Your Questions 4
Zuckerberg and Gates-Backed Startup Seeks To Shake Up African Education 119
Prison Program Aims To Turn Criminals Into Coders 305
Education Company Monitors Social Media For Test References 95
BBC Returns To Making Computers For Schools 106
edX Welcomes 'The University of Microsoft' Into Its Fold 44
YouTube Video of Racist Chant Results In Fraternity Closure 606
Yik Yak Raises Controversy On College Campuses 367
Ask Slashdot: Best Strategies For Teaching Kids CS Skills With Basic? 215
Go R, Young Man 144
Inside Minerva, a Silicon Valley Bid To Start an Elite College Online 85
Ask Slashdot: Should I Let My Kids Become American Citizens? 734
Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook Press WA For $40M For New UW CS Building 102
Argonne National Laboratory Shuts Down Online Ask a Scientist Program 106
Interviews: Ask Senior Director Matt Keller About the Global Learning XPRIZE 31
Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? 698
Using Microfinance to Develop Coding Talent (Video) 23
How One Developer Got the Internet To Watch People Code 65
Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge 681
L.A. School Superintendent Folds on Laptops-For-Kids Program 139
Carnegie-Mellon Sends Hundreds of Acceptance Letters By Mistake 131
Government, Military and Private Sector Fighting Over Next-Gen Cyber-Warriors 68
Bill Gates On Educating the World 156
Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? 323

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