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Education Stories for 2018
Chinese Schools Are Using 'Smart Uniforms' To Track Their Students' Locations 95 comments'Beware Silicon Valley's Gifts To Our Schools' 140 comments
In Some Bay Area Counties, College Grads Have Higher Unemployment 272 comments
The Top Free Online University Courses of 2018, Ranked by Popularity 33 comments
'The Five-Paragraph Essay Must Die' 196 comments
How Do Universities Prepare Graduates For Jobs That Don't Yet Exist? 164 comments
50 Years On, We're Living the Reality First Shown At the 'Mother of All Demos' 82 comments
'What Straight-A Students Get Wrong' 372 comments
Who'd Go To University Today? 500 comments
China Expands Research Funding, Luring US Scientists and Students 93 comments
Amazon Opens Up Its Internal Machine Learning Training To Everyone 30 comments
Michael Bloomberg Donates Record $1.8 Billion To Johns Hopkins University; Donation Will Be Devoted Exclusively To Undergraduate Financial Aid 134 comments
Virginia To Produce 25K-35K Additional CS Grads As Part of Amazon HQ2 Deal 165 comments
Ask Slashdot: How To Fix an Outdated College Tech Curriculum? 128 comments
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust, Two of the World's Largest Biomedical Research Funders, Back Europe's Ambitious Open-Access Plan 22 comments
Is Data Science For All the New Computer Science For All? 51 comments
English Has the Scientific Edge -- For Now 241 comments
'Hologram' Lecturers To Teach Students at Imperial College London 57 comments
Can a Robot Learn a Language the Way a Child Does? 86 comments
New Zealand Chooses Google Chromebooks Over Microsoft Windows 10 For Education 165 comments
Kids Think the Darndest Things About How Computers Work 226 comments
Should Parents End 'Screen Time' For Children? 178 comments
With Few US Students Taking CS Classes, Code.org 'Scales Back' Funding For CS Education 162 comments
190 Universities Launch 600 Free Online Courses 82 comments
Google Is Teaching Children How To Act Online. Is It the Best Role Model? 96 comments
YouTube Is Investing $20 Million In Educational Content, Creators 115 comments
iPhone's New Parental Controls Block Sex Ed, Allow Violence and Racism 185 comments
MIT Plans College For AI, Backed by $1 Billion 52 comments
Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head 472 comments
The UK Invited a Robot To 'Give Evidence' In Parliament For Attention 18 comments
The US Military Wants To Teach AI Some Basic Common Sense 94 comments
Will Chromebooks Someday Threaten Windows? 219 comments
Former Students Say Steve Wozniak's $13,200 Coding Bootcamp Is 'Broken' and Sometimes Links To Wikipedia 135 comments
Study of 1.6 Million Grades Shows Little Gender Difference in Math and Science at School 370 comments
NSA's 'Codebreaker Challenge' Features Exploiting Blockchain To Steal Ethereum 56 comments
AI Could Devastate the Developing World 165 comments
Wharton Professor Says America Should Shorten the Work Day By 2 Hours 456 comments
Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay Tuition 250 comments
The Latest Course Catalog Trend? Blockchain 101 91 comments
Is Tech Billionaires' Educational Philanthropy a Bug Or a Feature? 154 comments
Survey Finds 85% of Underserved Students Have Access To Only One Digital Device 216 comments
China Now the Most Prolific Contributor To Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Math 201 comments
Some Students Say Having To Speak in Front of the Class is an Unreasonable Burden For Those With Anxiety and Are Requesting Alternative Options 513 comments
Actuarial Science Ranked As Most Valuable College Major 216 comments
Wikipedia Seeks Photos of 20 Million Artifacts Lost in Brazil Museum Fire 56 comments
Silicon Valley University Asks Professors To Offer Students Affordable Housing 171 comments
Amazon Accelerating Effort To Bring CS To More Than 133,000 US Schools 77 comments
50% of Parents in the US Believe Coding Most Beneficial Subject For Their Children, 75% Believe Big Tech Firms Should Be Involved in Helping Schools: Study 219 comments
30% of America's Student Loan Borrowers Can't Keep Up After Six Years 287 comments
Popular College Majors Changed Abruptly After the Financial Crisis 254 comments
University of Texas is Getting a $60 Million Supercomputer 88 comments
How Do Things Stick To Us in a Culture Where Information and Ideas Are Up So Quickly That We Have No Time To Assess One Before Another Takes Its Place? 134 comments
Google, Apple and 13 Other Companies That No Longer Require Employees To Have a College Degree 224 comments
How AI Can Spot Exam Cheats and Raise Standards 47 comments
It's Time to End the 'Data Is' vs 'Data Are' Debate 248 comments
Saint Louis University Is Outfitting Student Living Spaces With Thousands of Echo Dots 174 comments
NYU Offers Full-Tuition Scholarships for All Medical Students 167 comments
Should Online Courses Film Students Taking Tests? 97 comments
Children Learn Best When Their Bodies Are Engaged in the Living World. We Must Resist the Ideology of Screen-Based Learning 289 comments
Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors? 473 comments
Using Electronic Devices During Lectures Led To Lower Grades, Study Finds 39 comments
LeBron James Opens STEM-Based School For At-Risk Students In Ohio 143 comments
France Bans Smartphones in School 161 comments
With Financial Aid Declining, Many College Students Don't Have Enough Money To Eat, Studies Show, Even Though About 40 Percent Are Also Working 497 comments
New Zealand Government Spends $150K To Create Video Game To Teach People How To Run a Business 94 comments
Student Engineers Build Hyperloop Test Pods That Set a New Speed Record 92 comments
Some Colleges Cautiously Embrace Wikipedia 65 comments
The Tech Industry's War On Kids 108 comments
A Student Was Rejected By A College Because Of China's 'Social Credit System' 255 comments
How Minecraft Is Helping Kids Fall In Love With Books 35 comments
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Claims It Has Enabled Its Partners To 'Double the Number of Black and Latinx Students and Girls Taking AP Computer Science' 251 comments
As Student-Loan Debt Soars, Alternatives, Like Income-Share Agreements, Are On the Rise 238 comments
How Many Exclamation Points Do You Need To Seem Genuinely Enthusiastic? 158 comments
Words with Multiple Meanings Pose a Special Challenge To Algorithms 173 comments
BBC Releases Computer History Archive 18 comments
Japanese Writing After Murakami 66 comments
Some Science Journals That Claim To Peer Review Papers Do Not Do So 122 comments
Should Facial Recognition Cameras Be In Schools? 157 comments
Algeria Shuts Off Entire Country's Internet To Stop Students From Cheating 123 comments
Oxford English Dictionary Extends Hunt For Regional Words Around the World 61 comments
We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science 558 comments
University of Chicago To Stop Requiring ACT and SAT Scores For Prospective Undergraduates 457 comments
French School Students To Be Banned From Using Mobile Phones 136 comments
MIT Issued Blockchain Diplomas, But Doesn't Know If Employers Actually Use Them 38 comments
DeepMind Used YouTube Videos To Train Game-Beating Atari Bot 61 comments
Face Recognition Is Now Being Used In Schools 206 comments
Walmart Offers To Foot College Tuition Bills for US Employees 181 comments
Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal 62 comments
Code.org Is Crowdsourcing Database of US K-12 Schools That Teach, Or Don't Teach CS 87 comments
High School in China Installs Facial Recognition Cameras To Monitor Students' Attentiveness 152 comments
Scottish Students Used Spellchecker Glitch To Cheat In Literacy Test 167 comments
Why Are the NBA's Best Players Getting Better Younger? YouTube 72 comments
H-1B Visa Alternative 'OPT' Grew 400 Percent In Eight Years, Report Finds 185 comments
Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree In AI 76 comments
Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? 391 comments
Ask Slashdot: Do Citizen Science Platforms Exist? 105 comments
Canada Facing 'Brain Drain' As Young Tech Talent Leaves For Silicon Valley 326 comments
Ask Slashdot: What Should I Study? 214 comments
Some YouTube Stars Are Being Paid To Sell Academic Cheating 125 comments
The Smithsonian's New Tour Guide Is a Robot 49 comments
Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking 514 comments
Bill Gates: U.S. Education Harder to Improve Than Infant Mortality Rates 252 comments
High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University 578 comments
A Well-Known Expert On Student Loans Is Not Real 173 comments
Kazakhstan Is Changing Its Alphabet From Cyrillic To Latin-Based Style Favored By the West 288 comments
100 Top Colleges Vow To Enroll More Low-Income Students 96 comments
One Laptop Per Child's $100 Laptop Was Going To Change the World -- Then it All Went Wrong 271 comments
Former Senior VP of Apple Tony Fadell Says Company Needs To Tackle Smartphone Addiction 75 comments
Berkeley Offers Its Data Science Course Online For Free 33 comments
Microsoft Touts Breakthrough In Making Chatbots More Conversational 101 comments
Schools Won't Like How Difficult the New iPad Is To Repair 172 comments
Schools Are Giving Up on Smartphone Bans 117 comments
Google is Equipping More Rural School Buses With Wi-Fi and Chromebooks 59 comments
'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health 172 comments
Poor Grades Tied To Class Times That Don't Match Our Biological Clocks 294 comments
Apple Trains Chicago Teachers To Put Coding In More Classrooms 64 comments
Apple Announces New $299 iPad With Pencil Support For Schools 141 comments
Apple To Unveil a Cheaper iPad Next Week At Its Educational Event 78 comments
Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped US Colleges 206 comments
Say Goodbye To the Information Age: It's All About Reputation Now 193 comments
Ghana's Windows Blackboard Teacher And His Students Have a Rewarding Outcome 82 comments
University of Arizona Tracks Student ID Card Swipes To Detect Who Might Drop Out 103 comments
Code.org Celebrates 5th Anniversary, Success In Changing K-12 Education Policy 36 comments
Children Struggle To Hold Pencils Due To Too Much Tech, Doctors Say 314 comments
Tesla Deploys Over 300 Powerwalls To Give Hawaiian School Kids AC 147 comments
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Teach 'Best Practices' For Programmers? 220 comments
The College Board Pushes To Make Computer Science a High School Graduation Requirement 132 comments
Barbie Will Be Used To Teach Kids To Code 200 comments
Learning To Program Is Getting Harder 408 comments
In the Wake of Fake News, Several Universities Including MIT and Harvard Introduce New Course On Ethics and Regulation of AI 177 comments
Unknown Language Discovered in Malaysia 55 comments
Cryptocurrency Classes Are Coming To Campus 81 comments
Where Old, Unreadable Documents Go to Be Understood 44 comments
Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results 333 comments
Former Google/Facebook/Mozilla Employees Will Fight Addictive Technologies 121 comments
Gates On a Plane: Alaska Airlines Inflight Entertainment Stars Bill Gates 50 comments
YouTube Will Put Disclaimers On State-Funded Broadcasts To Fight Propaganda 126 comments
This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. 443 comments
High School Computer Science: Look Ma, No Textbooks! 110 comments
How a PhD Student Unlocked 1 Bitcoin Hidden In DNA 58 comments
Microsoft Unveils Windows 10 S Laptops Starting at $189 and New Office 365 Tools for Students 107 comments
Tim Cook: 'I Don't Want My Nephew on a Social Network' 93 comments
Interviewing the Interviewer 94 comments
More Colleges Than Ever Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies 180 comments
Efforts Grow To Help Students Evaluate What They See Online 166 comments