Education Stories for 2023

US Department of Education Spending $4 Million To Teach 3,450 Kids CS Using Minecraft 38
UK Students Launch Barclays 'Career Boycott' Over Bank's Climate Policies 47
Are Phones Making the World's Students Dumber? 123
Microsoft President Brad Smith Quietly Leaves Board of Nonprofit Code.org 4
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Methods To Stop Digital Surveillance In Schools? 115
Elon Musk Is Funding a New School In Austin, Texas 167
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Help Teachers Incorporate AI Into CS Education 16
Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests 55
Harvard Accused of Bowing to Meta By Ousted Disinformation Scholar in Whistleblower Complaint 148
Reactions Continue to Viral Video that Led to Calls for College Presidents to Resign 414
Harvard, MIT and UPenn's Presidents Should 'Resign in Disgrace', Bill Ackman Says 503
US Students' Math Scores Plunge In Global Education Assessment 131
CS Teachers Panic as Replit Pulls the Plug on Educational IDE 66
How 'Hour of Code' Will Teach Students About Issues with AI 17
America is Seeing a 'Dramatic Rise' in Home Schooling 378
Code.org Presses Washington To Make Computer Science a High School Graduation Requirement 95
ACT Test Scores For US Students Drop To a 30-Year Low 102
Who Runs the Best US Schools? It May Be the Defense Department 94
States Are Calling For More K-12 CS Classes. Now They Need the Teachers. 114
Hundreds of US Schools Hit By Potentially Organized Swatting Hoaxes, Report Says 60
Tech-Backed Code.org Picks 'Creativity With AI' As Theme For 2023 Hour of Code 3
New York Bans Facial Recognition In Schools 22
'Code.org In Farsi' To Bring Tech-Backed Nonprofit's K-12 CS Curricula To Iran 34
US News' 2024 College Ranking Boosts Public Universities 28
Textbook Publishers Sue Shadow Library LibGen For Copyright Infringement 30
Sweden Brings More Books and Handwriting Practice Back To Its Tech-Heavy Schools 26
Is Gen Z Giving Up on College? 404
'Staggering' Education Inequality Caused During Pandemic by Overreliance on Tech, Says UN Agency 215
'Security Concerns' Caused Three-Day Internet Outage at the University of Michigan Last Week 19
CalTech To Accept Khan Academy Success As Option For Admission 35
Microsoft Makes Some Certification Exams Open Book 37
Is 'CS In Every School' the 2024 Presidential Campaign's 'Chicken In Every Pot'? 104
Why Fewer University Students Are Studying Mandarin 69
The Nation's Largest School District Is Making Virtual School a Permanent Option 68
Schools are Now Teaching About ChatGPT and AI So Their Students Aren't Left Behind 73
Colleges Spend Like There's No Tomorrow. 262
White House Holds First-Ever Summit On the Ransomware Crisis Plaguing the Nation's Public Schools 76
Unesco Calls for Global Ban on Smartphones in Schools 153
Code.org Embraces Barbie 9 Years After Helping Take Her Down 75
Should High Schools Require a CS Course Before Students Graduate? 151
US Announces $39 Billion in New Student Debt Relief 194
Why Are Vietnam's Schools So Good? 169
Wisconsin Will Raise Public School Funding For the Next 400 Years 125
Schools Say US Teachers' Retirement Fund Was Breached By MOVEit Hackers 15
Figma's Design Tools Are Now Free On Chromebooks For All US School Students 25
Cleaner Accidentally Ruins Decades of US College's Research By Turning Off Freezer 224
34% of AP CS Students Couldn't Solve This Java-Based 2D Array Question 226
Harvard's New Computer Science Teacher Is a Chatbot 39
Figma's Design Tools Are Now Free on Chromebooks For All US School Students 17
US Reading and Math Scores Drop To Lowest Level In Decades 248
Hey Alexa, What Should Students Learn About AI? 22
NYT: It's the End of Computer Programming As We Know It 224
CS50, the World's Most Popular Online Programming Class, Turns to AI for Help 22
India Cuts Periodic Table and Evolution From School Textbooks 309
Student Loan Payment Pause 'Gone' Under Debt Ceiling Deal 399
'More Than 600,000 Students and Teachers Use Z-Library' 21
US Colleges See a Surge in CS Majors, Fewer Humanities Majors 284
Bill Gates Applauds Affordable Colleges, Urges Graduates to Solve the World's Problems 150
How US Universities Hope to Build a New Semiconductor Workforce 52
700,000 Free Programmable 'Micro Bits' with LEDs Given to UK Schools 54
New York City Rescinds Ban on ChatGPT Use in Public Schools 17
Professor Failed More Than Half His Class After ChatGPT Falsely Claimed It Wrote Their Final Papers 126
Coastal Cities Priced Out Low-Wage Workers. Now College Graduates Are Leaving, Too. 156
Khan Academy Piloting a Version of GPT Called Khanmigo 36
Why Universities Should Return To Oral Exams In the AI and ChatGPT Era 99
Worthless Degrees Are Creating an Unemployable Generation in India 150
Should Managers Permanently Stop Requiring Degrees for IT Positions? 214
American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Reverse Flynn Effect' 391
Khan Academy Chief Says GPT-4 is Ready To Be a Tutor 58
Microsoft and Jeff Bezos Tap Excel, Not Python Or R, To Teach Kids Data Science 188
Inside the Bitter Campus Privacy Battle Over Smart Building Sensors 50
Stanford Releases 386-Page Report On the State of AI 22
A Group of College Students Are Sending a Rover To the Moon 29
Should Schools Makes CS/Cybersecurity a High School Graduation Requirement? 128
Why America's Children Stopped Falling in Love with Reading 184
Duolingo Is Working On a Music App 8
One AI Tutor Per Child: Is Personalized Learning Finally Here? 96
1,100 Scientists and Students Barred From UK Amid China Crackdown 36
Online Tests Suggest IQ Scores In US Dropped For the First Time In Nearly a Century 186
Jaded With Education, More Americans are Skipping College 222
Microsoft, Google-Backed Group Wants To Boost AI Education in Low-Income Schools 34
Code.org Celebrates 10th Anniversary With Fond Memories of Its Viral 2013 Video 21
The End of the English Major 226
America's Chip Moonshot Should Take Aim At Its Education System 86
Stanford Faculty Say Anonymous Student Bias Reports Threaten Free Speech 154
Crypto Mining Operation Found In School Crawl Space 52
Internal Review Found 'Falsified Data' in Stanford President's Alzheimer's Research, Colleagues Allege 34
Steep Declines In Data Science Skills Among Fourth- and Eighth-Graders Across America, Study Finds 228
Z-Library Returns, Offering 'Unique' Domain Name To All Users 51
Several US Universities Want to Use Micronuclear Reactors 69
The End of Grading 231
America Failing To Prepare Gen Z To Enter the Workforce Due To 'Glaring' Gap in Tech Skills 264
Students Lost One-Third of a School Year To Pandemic, Study Finds 71
Why This Teacher Has Adopted an Open ChatGPT Policy 113
Yale-Harvard Snub of US News Rankings Opens Way for More Exits 35
University of Texas Will Offer Large-Scale Online Master's Degree in AI 40
ChatGPT Passes MBA Exam Given By a Wharton Professor 155
Anti-Plagiarism Service Turnitin Is Building a Tool To Detect ChatGPT-Written Essays 69
Scores of Stanford Students Used ChatGPT on Final Exams, Survey Suggests 108
The Lights Have Been On At a Massachusetts School For Over a Year Because No One Can Turn Them Off 202
Tech-Backed Code.org Bringing BBC Micro:bit To US K-5 Classrooms 21
Successful Strike at University of California Sparks Organizing Surge Among US Academic Workers 55
Seattle Public Schools Sue Social Media Giants for Youth Mental Health Crisis 165
Modi Takes Steps To Allow Yale, Oxford To Open India Campuses 26
UK PM Rishi Sunak To Propose Compulsory Math To Students Up To 18 110
NYC Bans Students and Teachers From Using ChatGPT 104