Education Stories for 2021

Should Universities De-Prioritize English Departments for Engineering? 338
Skillsoft To Acquire Codecademy For $525 Million 6
Study Finds 'Serious Security Risks' In K-12 School Apps 16
Schools Across US Cancel Classes Over Unconfirmed TikTok Threats 44
Rocket Scientists and Brain Surgeons Aren't Necessarily More Clever, Study Finds 195
Chicago Public Schools Partners With Google Instead of Code.org For CSEdWeek 7
Raspberry Pi Trading Could Go Public This Spring 32
California Moves To Recommend Delaying Algebra To 9th Grade Statewide 639
Why Colleges are Giving Up on Remote Education 111
Roblox, Building Out the Metaverse, Looks To Bring Educational Videogames To Schools 40
The US Department of Homeland Security Urges 'Digital Literacy' 56
Tech Billionaires Auctioning Twitter 'Follows' To Advance K-12 CS Education 21
Microsoft Is Very Determined That Kids Will Learn To Code Using Minecraft 56
Microsoft Launches Windows 11 SE Built for Low-cost Education PCs 62
These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops 133
New Book Warns CS Mindset and VC Industry are Ignoring Competing Values 116
Brown University Physics Student Manfred Steiner Earns Ph.D. at Age 89 54
Code.org and Scratch Access Yanked By Chicago Schools Due To Student Privacy Law 76
Scammers Are Creating Fake Students on Harvard.edu and Using Them to Shill Brands 18
Ransomware Has Disrupted Almost 1,000 Schools In the US This Year 7
Google Expands Skills Certificate Training 16
Lambda School's Job-placement Rate May Be Far Worse Than Advertised 31
A Math Teacher is Putting Calculus Lessons on Pornhub 57
Give Us Your Biometric Data To Get Your Lunch In 5 Seconds, UK Schools Tell Children 121
How Miami's Mayor Hopes to Build a New (and Crypto-Friendly) Silicon Valley 80
Linguists Lament Slang Ban In London School 113
California Becomes First State To Require Covid-19 Vaccination For Students 232
School Reopenings Stymie Teens' Reseller Gigs 147
Students Don't Know What Files And Folders Are, Professors Say 186
FCC Showers Schools Across the US With $1.2 Billion From Emergency Connectivity Fund 37
Today's Students Don't Understand the Basics of Computer Operations 493
Stanford's Proposal Over AI's 'Foundations' Creates Controversy 100
After a For-Profit Company Bought EdX -- What Happens Next? 40
Online Coding School Treehouse Lays Off Most of Its Staff 55
As More US Men Abandon Higher Education, Are Admissions Officers Discriminating Against Women? 398
Personal Data About Millions of Children Stolen from Schools, Leaked onto the Darkweb 32
Code.org, Tech Giants Enlist Teachers To Sell Kids and Parents On 'CS Journeys' 89
Amazon To Cover 100% of College Tuition for US Hourly Employees 200
Howard University Announces Ransomware Attack, Shuts Down Classes On Tuesday 52
China Says Government To Set Prices for After-School Classes 48
School Science Projects Reveal Very High Lead Levels in the Schools' Water 63
Judge Rules UC-Berkeley Must Freeze Its Enrollment To Assess Ecological Impact of Its Undergrads 88
Code.org Will Teach 'Cybersecurity Hygiene' to Millions of Students 29
More Than 80 Cultures Still Speak in Whistles 51
Amazon Encourages Teachers To Use Social Media To Obtain Classroom Supplies 95
Oregon Law Allows Students To Graduate Without Proving They Can Write Or Do Math 337
Major UK Science Funder Will Require Grantees To Make Papers Free 63
Microsoft is Recruiting US Teens To Be Influencers on Social Media for Its Educational Coding Platform 33
Young People Get Their Knowledge of Tech From TV, Not School 46
Colleges Across the US and Canada Are Adopting Virtual Student IDs 49
Law School Applicants Surge 13%, Biggest Increase Since Dot-Com Bubble 84
Texas Instruments' New Calculator Will Run Programs Written in Python 126
SANS Institute Founder Hopes to Find New Cybersecurity Talent With a Game 15
China Considers Turning Tutoring Companies Into Non-Profits 34
Handwriting Is Better Than Typing When Learning a New Language, Study Finds 78
'Financially Hobbled for Life': The Elite Master's Degrees That Don't Pay Off 485
2U Buys edX for $800M, In Surprise End To Nonprofit MOOC Provider Started by MIT and Harvard 53
Will America's Top Court Protect Free Speech Online for Teenagers? 88
Supreme Court Sides With High School Cheerleader Who Cursed Online 157
Dartmouth Abandons Controversial Online Cheating Investigation at Medical School 38
Spring Numbers Show 'Dramatic' Drop In College Enrollment 245
GitHub Honors Class of 2021 with 'GitHub Yearbook' and 'GitHub Graduation' Ceremony 8
California's Controversial Math Overhaul Focuses on Equity 308
Amazon Calls For Funding K-12 CS, Eyes $250M Seed Money From Congress 31
Colorado Ditches SAT, ACT and Legacy Admissions For Public Colleges 156
Steve Wozniak Faces Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over Branded Tech School 93
Some Colleges Are Offering Credit for Playing Videogames 82
6th Grader Expelled After Zoom Provided Possibly Inaccurate IP Address 143
University Cancels $700,000 in Student Debt for 220 Graduates Affected by the Pandemic 27
Three Students Sue Lambda School Alleging False Advertising 22
Impossible Burgers Are Coming To US Schools 86
Anti-Cheating Technology Challenged at Dartmouth Medical School 85
American Schools' Phone Apps Send Children's Info To Ad Networks, Analytics Firms 43
College Student Sues Proctorio After Source Code Copyright Claim 35
Should Colleges Break Down How Much Money Students Make For Each Major? 233
NBC News Asks: Is College Worth the Money? 157
Tech Giants Support Code.org's Amazon-Bankrolled Java-Based AP CS Curriculum 39
What Happened After Elite Universities Made Standardized Test Scores Optional? 312
How a Researcher 'Clinging To the Fringes of Academia' Helped Develop a Covid-19 Vaccine 64
Proctorio Is Using Racist Algorithms To Detect Faces 366
Why a Young Professor Turned Down a $60,000 Research Grant From Google 57
Victoria University of Wellington Accidentally Deletes All Files Stored On Desktop Computers 142
Learning Apps Have Boomed in the Pandemic. Now Comes the Real Test. 9
Students Are Easily Cheating 'State-of-the-Art' Test Proctoring Tech 122
The Student and the Algorithm: How the Exam Results Fiasco Threatened One Pupil's Future 174
Nevada Department of Education Has No Direct Say In Who Gets Tesla's $37.5 Million K-12 Donation 69
Fewer Children Are Attending School, Remotely and In Person 146
San Francisco Sues Its Own School District, Board Over Reopening 152
Is Misinformation on Nextdoor Impacting Local Politics? 87
University of Florida Asks Students To Use App To Report Professors Who Don't Teach In Person 87
The Linux Foundation Now Offers a Suite of Open-Source Management Classes 7
Do Children Really Need To Learn To Code? 310
Amazon To Expand Its Childhood-To-Career CS Program To India Later This Year 43