Education Stories for 2022

Some Universities Are Now Restricting TikTok Access on Campus 36
Cambridge Student Solves 2,500-Year-Old Sanskrit Problem 70
MPs and Peers Do Worse Than 10-Year-Olds in Maths and English Sats 108
Should CS Be Required for a High School Degree? 197
Stanford Investigates Its President Over Allegations of Past Research Misconduct 22
Graduate Students Analyze, Crack, and Remove Under-Desk Surveillance Devices 86
Amazon To Shut Down Its Online Learning Platform in India 9
France Says No To Office 365 and Google Workspace in School 56
Survey Reveals the Most-Regretted (and Least-Regretted) College Majors 140
Wharton, Berkeley, NYU Offering Online MBAs For the First Time 22
An Investigation of CS Instructor Obstacles, Workarounds, and Desires 36
Americans Eye European Colleges To Save Money On Tuition 168
Math Scores Fell In Nearly Every State, Reading Dipped On National Exam 196
New Specialized Career Certifications Created by 'Grow with Google' Through University-Industry Partnerships 27
A Minecraft Player Set Out To Build the Known Universe, Block by Block 29
'Princeton Isn't Free - But It Could Be' 73
Universities Adapt To Google's New Storage Fees, Or Migrate Away Entirely 91
NYU Organic Chemistry Professor Terminated For Tough Grading 319
When AI Asks Dumb Questions, It Gets Smart Fast 38
Millions of Borrowers May Be Eligible For a Refund On Student Loan Payments Made During the Pandemic 171
Does Computer Programming Really Help Kids Learn Math? 218
US Announces Space-Companies Coalition to Prepare Skilled Tech Workforce for Space Jobs 16
YouTube Launches Ad-Free Video Player For Education 19
Princeton Will Cover All College Costs For Families Making Up To $100,000 53
Google Pledges $20 Million To Expand Computer Science Education in the US 48
Virtual Classes Are Now Permanent Offerings at Some US Schools 60
Biden is Canceling Up To $10K in Student Loans, $20K For Pell Grant Recipients 441
University Can't Scan Students' Rooms During Remote Tests, Judge Rules 84
Star American Professor Masterminded a Surveillance Machine For Chinese Big Tech 26
A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are In the Bathroom Is Now In 1,000 American Schools 90
Midwest Universities Unite To Support US Chip Industry Revival 24
What Happened After a High School Banned Mobile Phones? 289
Denmark Bans Chromebooks, Google Workspace In Schools Over Data Transfer Risks 67
50 Governors Sign Compact in Response To Tech Executives' Request For More CS-Savvy Kids 82
Columbia Loses Its No. 2 Spot In the US News Rankings 19
California Late Start Law Aims To Make School Less of a Yawn 168
Remote Learning Apps Tracked Millions of US Children During Pandemic 44
PhD Students Face Cash Crisis with Wages That Don't Cover Living Costs 126
Playing Video Games Has An Unexpected Effect On Kids' IQ, Says New Study 106
Congress Urged To Ease Immigration for Foreign Science Talent 94
Illinois College, Hit By Ransomware Attack, To Shut Down 58
Got a Coupon For That College Course? Marketing Gimmicks Come To Higher Ed 22
Another Standardized Test Falls? America's Law Schools Could Stop Using the LSAT 100
College Graduates Are Overestimating the Salaries They'll Start Out at By $50,000, Report Finds 223
Google Makes $100,000 Worth of Tech Training Free To Every US Business 12
Khan Academy Launches Global Online High School Program 24
Dialect Hunt Aims To Update Prized English Language Archive 15
The University of Washington's Fuzzy CS Diversity Success Math 107
Intel Calls Its AI That Detects Student Emotions a Teaching Tool. Others Call It 'Morally Reprehensible' 38
Applications Surged After Colleges Started Ignoring Standardized Test Scores 187
Can AI Be Trained to Grade CS Homework Assignments? 58
Rutgers Business School Created Fake Jobs For Graduates To Boost MBA Program Rankings, Lawsuit Charges 13
MIT Grad Students Vote To Form Labor Union 82
Efforts To Ban Books Jumped an 'Unprecedented' Four-Fold In 2021 142
Senators Question School Surveillance Startups on Data, Civil Rights 38
MIT Reinstates SAT/ACT Requirement For Incoming Classes 113
40,000 Chromebooks and 9,600 iPads Went Missing At Chicago Public Schools During COVID 90
'I No Longer Grade My Students' Work -- And I Wish I Had Stopped Sooner' 346
Kids Are Learning History From Video Games Now 84
'US College Education Is Nearer To Collapsing Than It Appears' 448
US Schools Can Subscribe To An Electric School Bus Fleet At Prices That Beat Diesel 100
'To Keep Students in STEM fields, Let's Weed Out the Weed-Out Math Classes' 365
The Dangers of CS 'Philanthrocapitalism' 41
Are Colleges Going To Be On the Hook For Covid Tuition Refunds? 77
Can Microsoft's New Software Help Teach Children to Read? 30
The US Gets Some More Tuition-Free College Programs 70
On Raspberry Pi's 10th Anniversary, Eben Upton Ponders the Prospects for a RISC-V Pi 71
How a Simple Security Bug Became a University Campus 'Master Key' 73
Facebook is Shutting Down Its College Student-only Social Network, Campus 7
MSCHF Just Turned the SATs Into a Battle Royale With a Big Cash Prize 42
Children May Instinctively Know How To Do Division Even Before Hitting the Books, Study Finds 48
Code.org and Coldplay Launch Global Campaign To Inspire Kids To Code and Dance 53
The End of Free Google Storage for Education 40
North Carolina Teams With Microsoft To Bring Minecraft CS Curriculum To All Middle Schoolers 39
Governors Asked To Sign Compact Committing To K-12 CS Expansion 67
SAT Will Soon Be All-Digital, Shortened To 2 Hours 103
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Software Development, Linux, and Git Certification 13
Ask Slashdot: Do We Need Better Computer Programming Courses For Visual Learners? 159
Apple Now Verifies Anyone Asking for Educational Discounts 43
Do CS Teachers Need To Know CS? 168
$1.7 Billion in Student Loan Debt Cancelled for 66,000 Borrowers 72
More Than 1 Million Fewer Students Are In College, the Lowest Numbers In 50 Years 184
Yale, Georgetown, Other Top Schools Illegally Collude To Limit Student Financial Aid, Lawsuit Alleges 52
EdTech Firm Fires 60,000 in Worst Cuts Since China Crackdown 51
Amazon Aims To Increase Influence On K-12 Schools and Make Kids Hardware-Savvy 25