Education Stories for 2024

British Intelligence Moves To Protect Research Universities From Espionage 8
US Teacher Charged With Using AI To Frame Principal With Hate Speech Clip 119
Study: Alphabetical Order of Surnames May Affect Grading 72
Feds Hit Coding Boot Camp With Big Fine For Allegedly Conning Students 39
Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI 115
Harvard Reinstates Standardized Testing Requirement 84
Code.org Launches AI Teaching Assistant For Grades 6-10 In Stanford Partnership 16
America's Chip Renaissance Needs Workers 117
Texas Will Use Computers To Grade Written Answers On This Year's STAAR Tests 41
Professors Are Now Using AI to Grade Essays. Are There Ethical Concerns? 102
AI's Impact on CS Education Likened to Calculator's Impact on Math Education 102
Business Schools Are Going All In on AI 39
Chronic Student Absenteeism Soars Across US 119
Google Teams with 'Highlights', Shows How Goofus and Gallant Use the Internet 19
Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem 112
Indiana Becomes 9th State To Make CS a High School Graduation Requirement 42
Nvidia Founder Tells Stanford Students Their High Expectations May Make It Hard For Them To Succeed 98
Who Uses Legacy Admissions? 62
U. of Texas at Austin Will Return To Standardized Test Requirement 93
How $138B in US Student Loans Were Cancelled - Roughly One-Third of Planned Amount 162
Teachers Are Embracing ChatGPT-Powered Grading 121
Screen Time Robs Average Toddler of Hearing 1,000 Words Spoken By Adult a Day, Study Finds 86
In a First, US Students Will Take the SAT Entirely Online 76
'Communications of the ACM' Is Now Open Access 25
Half of College Graduates Are Working High School Level Jobs 266
$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School 85
What Happened After Peter Thiel Paid 271 Students to Drop Out of College? 114
New York Will Start Requiring Credentials for All CS Teachers 48
Yale Reinstates Standardized Test Requirement For Admission 74
Algebra To Return To San Francisco Middle Schools This Fall 97
NYC Fails Controversial Remote Learning Snow Day 'Test,' Public Schools Chancellor Says 60
Google Scholar is Manipulatable 16
California Bill Would Require Computer Science For High School Graduation 202
Dartmouth College Reinstates the SAT 197
How CS Students Go From Code.org Into Its Founders' Mentorship/Angel Investment Fund, 'Neo' 14
UK University To Beam in Hologram Lecturers 16
OpenAI Announces First Partnership With a University 21
'A Groundbreaking Study Shows Kids Learn Better On Paper, Not Screens. Now What?' 130
'Student Should Have a Healthy-Looking BMI': How Universities Bend Over Backwards To Accommodate Food Delivery Robots 125
Should Chatbots Teach Your Children? 94
The Billionaires Spending a Fortune To Lure Scientists Away From Universities 77
What Counts as Plagiarism? Harvard President's Resignation Sparks Debate 119
Chicago Public Schools Lost Over $20 Million In Electronics In One Year, Report Says 163
US News Makes Money From Some of Its Biggest Critics: Colleges 29
After Reports of His Own Wife's Plagiarism, Bill Ackman Threatens Plagiarism Reviews For All MIT Faculty 293
UCLA Will Transform Dead Westside Mall Into Major Science Innovation Center 23
Nobel Prize Winner Cautions on Rush Into STEM 113

Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.