Education Stories for 2020

Apple Launches First-Generation College Student Mentorship Program 21
ExamSoft Flags One-Third of California Bar Exam Test Takers For Cheating 82
New York Halts Use of Facial Recognition in Schools 51
More Than 70 West Point Cadets Accused Of Cheating In Academic Scandal 151
Successful IT Workers Applaud Non-Traditional Paths to Tech 149
After Canceling Exam, College Board Touts Record Number of AP CSP Exam Takers 47
Vista Acquires IT Education Platform Pluralsight for $3.5B 9
Covid-19 Deaths Rose In US College Towns When Students Returned 264
U.S. Schools are Buying Phone-Hacking Tech That the FBI Uses to Investigate Terrorists 115
Elon Musk On the Problem With Corporate America: 'Too Many MBAs' 195
Amazon Plans To Help 29 Million People Grow their Tech Skills With Free Cloud Computing Training by 2025 44
CISA and FBI Warn of Rise in Ransomware Attacks Targeting K-12 Schools 13
How Prestige Journals Remain Elite, Exclusive And Exclusionary 82
'I Should Have Loved Biology' 133
Assigning Homework Exacerbates Class Divides, Researchers Find 312
Cheating-Detection Software Provokes 'School-Surveillance Revolt' 143
In Rural 'Dead Zones,' School Comes On a Flash Drive 92
Microsoft's 2020 Hour of Code Lesson Doubles As Unconscious Bias Training 164
Students Have To Jump Through Absurd Hoops To Use Exam Monitoring Software 221
Microsoft: Make 11-Year-Olds 'Future Ready' With Minecraft Python Hour of Code 51
Should Retraining Programs for Laid-Off Retail Workers Include Computer Programming? 233
Proctoring Software Company Used DMCA To Take Down a Student's Critical Tweets 130
Should Computer Programming Classes Focus on Projects Instead of 'Logic Puzzles'? 108
Schools Clamored for Seesaw's App. That Was Good News, and Bad News. 18
Google/EdX Are Charging $298 For Their Remake of a Free 2012 How-to-Google Course 22
College President Resigns After 712 Students Test Positive For Covid-19 153
The Digital Divide Starts With a Laptop Shortage 125
Should Colleges Do Admissions Without Standardized Tests? 156
Louise Gluck Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 44
Harvard Professor Challenges 'The Meritocratic Hubris of Elites' 228
Microsoft and NASA Create a Space-Themed Site Teaching Python Programming 24
Google/Gallup: Kids Aren't Drinking CS Kool-Aid, 'Interventions' Needed 224
College Enrollments Are Falling in the US -- Except For Graduate Degrees 59
Hacker Publishes Info On Las Vegas-Area Students After Demanding Ransom 114
Linux Milestone: EdX's Free 'Intro to Linux' Course Surpasses One Million Enrollments 24
Jeff Bezos Is Opening His First Tuition-Free Bezos Academy Preschool, Where Each Child 'Will Be the Customer' 114
Maybe CS Class Isn't the Best Way To Expose Most Kids To CS 78
You Can Microwave This Notebook When It's Full - Then Reuse It Again 62
Amazon Providing CS Education For 550,000+ Schoolchildren Amid Pandemic 11
Lack of Broadband and Devices Hobbles America's Remote Learning 175
Facebook Returns To Its Roots With Campus, a College Student-only Social Network 29
Dozens of Scientific Journals Have Vanished From the Internet, and No One Preserved Them 81
City of Hartford Postpones First Day of School After Ransomware Attack 7
Slashdot Asks: Favorite YouTube Channels For Web Development and Programming? 48
These Students Figured Out Their Tests Were Graded by AI -- and the Easy Way To Cheat 216
Using AI and Photoshop to Fake 'Photos' of Ancient Roman Emperors 25
Children Raised In Greener Areas Have Higher IQ, Study Finds 221
Graduation Can Wait: Startups Recruiting Pandemic-Weary CS Students For Gap Year 21
Pandemic-Weary CS Students Tempted With Gap Years By Recruiting Startups 42
Google Has a Plan To Disrupt the College Degree 214
Fearing Coronavirus, a Michigan College is Tracking Its Students With a Flawed App 105
Scientist Proposes a New Programming Language For Teaching Coding (and Python) 160
As Colleges Move Classes Online, Families Rebel Against the Cost 222
University of Michigan Study Advocates Ban of Facial Recognition in Schools 18
New Free Software Foundation Video Mocks Proprietary Remote-Learning Software 50
Ask Slashdot: How Should College Students Approach This Academic Year? 42
White House Unveils Partnership To Boost Quantum Science Education 67
ICE Bars New Foreign Students From US If Classes Are Fully Online 150
New York Bans Use of Facial Recognition In Schools Statewide 29
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Wants To Create a Government-Funded AI University 20
California Orders Online Schooling In Hardest-Hit Counties 65
Trump Administration Rescinds Rule on Foreign Students 27
Google Announces 100,000 Scholarships for Online Certificates in Data Analytics, Project Management and UX 15
Apple To Teach Teachers To Teach Coding For Free 96
UK Universities Comply With China's Internet Restrictions 78
MIT and Harvard Sue DHS and ICE Over International Student Rule 182
Foreign Students Must Leave the US If Their Universities Transition To Online-Only Learning 169
Harvard Will Allow Some Students on Campus This Fall So Long as They Take Coronavirus Tests Every 3 Days 87
Hong Kong Government Tells Schools To Remove Books Breaching Security Law 108
Does Success in Life Depend on Understanding Both Technology and Constitutional Law? 93
MIT Removes Huge Dataset That Teaches AI Systems To Use Racist, Misogynistic Slurs 62
How Should High Schools Teach Computer Science? 151
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Gives $120 Million To Historically Black Colleges 60
Harvard Joins Peers Dropping SAT, ACT Requirement for Next Year 58
Lego Unveils New 'Robot Inventor' Mindstorms Kit 42
MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations 40
America's Switch To Remote Learning For 50 Million Students Called 'A Failure' 149
Will Schools Turn to Surveillance Tech to Prevent Covid-19 Spread? 69
1962 Roger Ebert Article Unearthed On Distance Learning For Homebound Students 16
This is Online Learning's Moment. For Universities, It's a Total Mess 56
College-Bound Students To Miss Out on Billions in Financial Aid Due To Pandemic 107
Locked-Down Teens Stay Up All Night, Sleep All Day 86
University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT 285
Students Are Failing AP Tests Because the College Boards Can't Handle HEIC Images 204
College Tests Called Unfair To Homebound, Tech-Poor Students 61
Ask Slashdot: Are Virtual Or In-Person Developer Conferences 'Better'? 92
Is Big Tech About to Take Over Higher Education? 65
Calls By College Students For Tuition Refunds Are Growing Louder 175
Google Searches For 'Java' Spiked During Friday's Online AP CS Exam 25
Some US Students May Have to Retake Online AP Exams Due to Computer Glitch 32
A.P. Exams in the Coronavirus Era: Online, and Just 15 To 45 Minutes Long 53
Should Colleges Preserve the Idea of Meritocracy? 342
Gov. Cuomo Taps Bill Gates To 'Reimagine Education' For New York 123
Unimpressed by Online Classes, College Students Demand Refunds 238
Some School Districts Plan To End the Year Early, Call Remote Learning Too Tough 93
Should the Government Subsidize Online Jobs and Classes -- and Streaming Services? 106
Bill Gates and Mark Cuban Do Zoom Chats With Code.org Students 12
School District Deploys Over 100 School Buses Equipped With Wi-Fi For Students Without Internet Access 27
Read My Lips: How Lockdown TV Could Boost Children's Literacy 43
TIOBE Suddenly Ranks 'Scratch' as the 20th Most Popular Programming Language 57
University Libraries Offer Online 'Lending' of Scanned In-Copyright Books 38
As School Moves Online, Many Students Stay Logged Out 149
US Schools Are Banning Zoom and Switching To Microsoft Teams 121
Nikon Is Streaming Online Photography Courses For Free This Month 24
California Governor Says 'We Need More Googles' As Company Offers Free Wi-Fi and Chromebooks To Students 120
Campus Is Closed, So College Students Are Rebuilding Their Schools In Minecraft 31
Should Students Still Be Graded In the Time of Covid-19? 115
School Quits Video Calls After Naked Man 'Guessed' the Meeting Link 143
Predicting a Post-Pandemic Future: Remote Working and Distance Learning? 165
MIT Has Made the Decision To No Longer Consider the SAT Subject Tests 57
Code.org: 'Our Team Will Teach Your Children At Home While School Is Closed' 20
Responding to School Closings, Microsoft Offers Free 'Minecraft Education Edition' 33
Also Cancelled Over Coronavirus: FIRST Robotics Competition and Stanford's Final Exams 19
Responding to Coronavirus Pandemic, Trump Eliminates Interest on US Students Loans 171
West Virginia Taps Apple To Teach Teachers To Teach Kids Swift 141
Twitter Rewrites Developer Policy To Better Support Academic Research and Use of 'Good' Bots 13
MIT Moves All Classes Online For the Rest of the Semester 62
America's Hottest New Dating Sites: Business School Campuses 96
Lambda School Threatens Ex-Employee For Coming Forward About Conditions At the Coding Bootcamp 36
Stanford, Others Switch To Online Classes Temporarily Amid Coronavirus Fears 41
University of California Students Strike To Protest Graduate Student Pay 83
Newspaper Decries Fearmongering of the 'Student Surveillance Industry' 79
Amazon Is Collecting Donations For a Scientology-Linked Anti-Drug Charity 45
Did 'The SImpsons' Accurately Portray STEM Education and the Gig Economy? 144
Finnish City Espoo Pioneers Civic AI With Education and Explainability 4
New Mexico AG Sues Google For Allegedly Collecting Location Data, Contact Lists From Students 13
UCLA Abandons Plans To Use Facial Recognition After Backlash 19
Lambda School's Misleading Promises 40
Purdue University Will Freeze Tuition For the 9th Straight Year 153
Free Coding Bootcamp 'Lambda' Tries Selling Its Income-Sharing Agreements -- In Bundles 34
Popular Preprint Servers Face Closure Because of Money Troubles 13
Federal Workforce Too Reliant On College Degrees, Says Trump Administration 235
The High Cost of a Free Coding Bootcamp 143
Are There Generational Differences In First Coding Languages and Learning Resources? 168
Texas K-12 Esports Teams Explode In Popularity 59
Doing Western Students' Homework is Big Business in Kenya 148
US Colleges Are Trying To Install Location Tracking Apps On Students' Phones 139
AirPods: The New It Item Among the Playground Set 77
Teaching Assistants Say They've Won Millions From UC Berkeley 72
How To Beat South Korea's AI Hiring Bots and Land a Job 41
Are We Teaching Engineers the Wrong Way to Think? 125
Installing Air Filters in Classrooms Has Surprisingly Large Educational Benefits 76