Education Stories for 2019

Microsoft Wants Schoolchildren Playing Minecraft To Learn Math 39
How Should Students Respond To Their School's Surveillance Systems? 138
'I Asked My Students To Turn In Their Cellphones and Write About Living Without Them' 77
Colleges Are Turning Students' Phones Into Surveillance Machines, Tracking the Locations of Hundreds of Thousands 148
Why So Many Japanese Children Refuse To Go To School 199
Code.org Boasts It's 'Served' an Hour of Code To 910+ Million Students 19
Finland Is Making Its Online AI Crash Course Free To the World 18
Virginia Has Big Plans For Electric School Buses In 2020 59
How Classroom Technology is Holding Students Back 87
Harvard CS50 Team: We 'Feel More Comfortable' About Harshly Punishing Cheaters 113
Google Has $100 For Teachers Who Steer 20+ Children To 'Google CS First' 25
College-Educated Workers Are Taking Over the American Factory Floor 159
Hour of Code Will Teach Kids How To Use AI To Judge Who Is 'Awesome' Or Not 42
Doctors Are Turning To YouTube To Learn How To Do Surgical Procedures 59
'Laziness Has Won': Apostrophe Society Admits Its Defeat 198
Public Libraries Drop Overdue Book Fines To Alleviate Inequity 279
High-Paid, Well-Educated White Collar Workers Will Be Heavily Affected By AI, Says New Report 147
How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math Class 220
Ask Slashdot: Are We Teaching Children The Wrong Way To Read? 333
Apple's Hour of Code Plans Include 'Coding Labs' For 3-Year-Olds 65
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Teach Inventing To Kids? 137
College Students Say Ditching Their Smartphones For a Week Changed Their Lives 91
Microsoft To Kids With Chromebooks: No 2019 Minecraft Hour of Code For You! 72
US Workers Show Little Improvement In 21st Century Skills 88
Silicon Valley's Singularity University Is Cutting Staff, CEO Exits 47
UCLA Now Has the First Zero-Emission, All-Electric Mobile Surgical Instrument Lab 26
Google-Funded Library Programs Teaching Google-Provided Curricula 18
Google Contest Requires Teachers To Praise Google's CS Curriculum For Children 31
Will Amazon Poach CS Profs Needed To Produce CS Grads Promised For Amazon HQ2? 49
Gaggle Knows Everything About Teens And Kids In School 57
14-Year-Old Inventor Solves Blind Spots 125
Ask Slashdot: How Was the Quality of Your Academic Tech Education? 96
Microsoft, Intel Draft 500,000+ JROTC Kids To Fight National CS Talent Shortage 67
Why Aren't We Curious About the Things We Want To Be Curious About? 90
The World's Top Economists Just Made the Case For Why We Still Need English Majors 169
Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Influential Chinese University Board 44
40% Of America's Schools Have Now Dropped Their SAT/ACT Testing Requirement 224
School Field Trips: Amazon Warehouses Are the New Smithsonian 24
Some Colleges Are Using Students' Smartphones To Track Their Locations on Campus 54
Elite MBA Programs Report Steep Drop In Applications 95
California's New Law Bans Schools From Starting Before 8am 203
Can A New TED-Ed Video Series Teach Students To 'Think Like A Coder'? 94
Should High School Computer Science Classes Count as a Math Credit? 222
Today's 'Day Against DRM' Protests Locks On Educational Materials 16
Over 500 US Schools Were Hit By Ransomware in 2019 27
US Dept of Education Has Big Payday For K-12 CS, Including Tech-Backed Code.org 47
Liberal Arts Majors Eventually Earn More Than STEM Majors 122
SAT Scores Fall As More Students Take the Test 201
Alabama Tracking Students' Locations To Penalize Them For Leaving Games Early 114
Expert Predicts 25% of Colleges Will 'Fail' in the Next 20 Years 199
'Ban All Watches From Exams To Stop Cheating' 136
US Charges Chinese Professor With Fraud For Allegedly Taking Tech From a California Company To Benefit Huawei 50
One of America's Biggest Markets for AI-Powered Security Cameras: Schools 56
Why We Should Teach Kids to Call the Robot 'It' 111
Is Tech's 'Free' Business Model For K-12 CS Education Good Or Bad? 46
College Board Drops Plans For SAT Student 'Adversity Scores' 131
Microsoft Is Requiring Lynda.com Users To Create LinkedIn Profiles 55
California High School In Silicon Valley Is Locking Up Students' Cellphones 319
Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students' Essays 90
How Should Schools Grade Unexpected-But-Correct Answers On Coding Tests? 177
A New Way To Help Students Turn in Their Best Work 40
London University Is Banning Beef To Help Fight Climate Change 292
China's New Schoolmarm Is 'Squirrel AI' 71
University of California Sues Five Major Retailers Over Edison-Style LED Bulbs 238
When Online Teachers See Child Abuse 56
Alaska's Engineering Colleges Prepare To Slash Programs, Lay Off Faculty 125
California Awards $70 Million To State Schools To Replace 200 Polluting Diesel School Buses With All-Electric Buses 248
Colleges Graduate 10,000 This Year With Masters In Data Science Degrees 64
Microsoft Office 365: Now Illegal In Many Schools in Germany 137
Monroe College Hit With Ransomware, $2 Million Demanded 97
Google Unveils 'Code With Google,' Awards $1 Million To CS Teachers Group 51
Interns' Job Prospects Constrained By Noncompete Agreements 179
FBI Urges Universities To Monitor Some Chinese Students And Scholars In the US 103
Two-Thirds of American Employees Regret Their College Degrees 209
Bernie Sanders Proposes Forgiving the Student Debt of 45 Million Americans 1514
Google's New Media Literacy Program Teaches Kids How To Spot Disinformation, Fake News 265
Amazonians Visit High Schools To Inspect the Amazon Future Engineer Troops 92
America's NSA Challenges Students With A Codebreaking Competition, Then Recruits Them 51
Should Schools Teach Computer Science Instead of Physics? 316
Texas Appeals Court Says Government Can't Be Sued For Copyright Piracy 107
Study Claims Using Twitter Erodes Your Intelligence 142
New York Schools Will Test Facial Recognition On Students Despite Objections From State 60
IEEE Bans Huawei From Peer-Reviewing Papers, Chinese Scientists Quit To Protest 172
Some Business Schools Are Shutting Down Their MBA Programs 165
Some Americans Have Fled The Country To Escape Student Loan Debt 747
Microsoft Teams With Alphabet's X and Brilliant For Online Quantum Computing Class 39
Why Are Some Wealthy Kids Getting Extra Time To Finish Their SAT Tests? 210
Parents Are Spending Thousands On YouTube Camps That Teach Kids How To Be Famous 134
A Rocket Built By Students Reached Space For the First Time 55
College Requires All CS Majors To Take An Improv Class 353
SAT To Add 'Adversity Score' That Rates Students' Hardships 444
West Virginians Now Say Code School Promising Jobs Was a Fraud 184
'I Don't Think a Four-Year Degree is Necessary To Be Proficient at Coding', Tim Cook Says 354
Facebook and Instagram Don't Wreck Kids' Lives, Claims New Study 68
Censorship 'Can't Be The Only Answer' To Anti-Vax Misinformation, Argues EFF 313
Nearly Half of College Students Surveyed in a New Report Are Going Hungry 526
European Universities Dismal at Reporting Results of Clinical Trials 65
When Digital Textbooks Make College Students Pay to Turn In Their Homework 205
Kansas Towns 'Rebel' Against Zuckerberg-Funded School Programs 205
Student Used 'USB Killer' Device To Destroy $58,000 Worth of College Computers 235
LeBron James' STEM-Based School Is Showing Promise 102
Old-School Slashdotter Discovers and Solves Longstanding Flaw In Basic Calculus 222
Udacity Restructures Operations, Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Workforce 30
Are the Kids All Right? These School Surveillance Apps Sure Want To Tell You 79
14-Year-Old Earned $200,000 Playing Fortnite on YouTube 171
White Hat Hackers Cracked 50 UK Universities' Computer Systems In 2 Hours 34
Ask Slashdot: What Would Your TED Talk Be About? 214
MIT Cuts Funding Ties With Huawei, ZTE Citing US National Security Concerns 102
French ISPs Ordered To Block Sci-Hub, LibGen 77
Lego Education's Newest Spike Prime Programmable Robots Aim For the Classroom 18
More Colleges Try Forgoing Tuition For A Percentage of Future Income 180
Hoping To Fix College Teaching, CMU Open-Sources Trove of Software 71
Paywalls Block Scientific Progress. Research Should Be Open To Everyone 97
'Making Amazon Look Bad': Microsoft Is Backing a Major Tax On Itself and Amazon 111
Elon Musk Makes Surprise Visit To Flint, Michigan Elementary School 50
82-Year-Old Pope Francis Is 'First Pope To Write a Line of Code' 97
What If Your Electronic Parts Were More Like Legos? 98
U.S. Students Have Achieved World Domination in Computer Science Skills -- For Now 194
Is Believing In Meritocracy Bad For You? 480
Stanford Unveils New AI Institute, Built To Create 'A Better Future For All Humanity' 67
Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds 228
Actresses, Business Leaders, and Other Wealthy Parents Charged in Massive College Admissions Scandal 375
Microsoft Launches AI Business School 28
Tufts Expelled a Student For Grade Hacking. She Claims Innocence 344
Encouragement Without Education Backfires On Recycling Efforts 220
Google Releases Speech Recognition App Bolo To Help Kids Learn To Read in India; Intends To Bring It To Other Countries in Future 31
Y Combinator Accidentally Let 15,000 People Into an Exclusive Program, Now Has Decided To Do It On Purpose 26
Bill Gates, Amazon and Google Urge Followers To Share Data On Teacher Friends 65
Amazon To Fund Computer Science Classes at 1,000 US High Schools 147
1,100 Schools Now Scan Social Media For Violent Students - and Alcohol Use 115
Huge Study Finds Professors' Attitudes Affect Students' Grades 136
How India's Single Time Zone Is Hurting Its People 175
Amazon To NYC After Reconsidering HQ2 Plans: It'd Be a Shame If Something Happened To Your Kids' CS Education 201
Rich Kids Are Cheating in School With Apple Watches 252
H-1B Visa Lottery Will Now Favor Masters, Doctorate Degree Holders 269
Schools Are Locking Students' Phones Away to Help With Concentration 147
Amazon To Fund CS Classes in Over 130 NYC High Schools 67
College Students Are Rushing in Record Numbers To Study Computer Science 242
Hiring Based on Skills Instead of College Degrees is Vital for the Future, IBM CEO Says 319
Verizon Blames School Text Provider In Dispute Over 'Spam' Fee 46
A Supercomputer In a 19th Century Church Is 'World's Most Beautiful Data Center' 62
Verizon Charges New 'Spam' Fee For Texts Sent From Teachers To Students 145
University of California Tells Students Not To Use WeChat, WhatsApp In China 69
Kenya Will Start Teaching Chinese To Elementary School Students From 2020 161
No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income (if You Find a Job) 472
Proceedings Start Against Portland State University Professor Whose Carefully Crafted Fiction Helped Expose the Rot Within Some Sectors of Modern Academia 631
Pepsi Is Testing a Snack Delivery Robot On Select College Campuses 80