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Kids Today Need a Licence to Tinker
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Kids Today Need a Licence to Tinker

Back to school time and millions of British kids are heading back to classrooms to embark on the national curriculum so beloved of busybody ministers.

Nsf Grant Supports Development of STEM Games For Blind Students
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Nsf Grant Supports Development of STEM Games For Blind Students

The National Science Foundation has awarded Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis approximately $250,000 to further research and development of online...

Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path to a College Degree
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Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path to a College Degree

Harvard and Ohio State are not going to disappear any time soon. But a host of new online enterprises are making earning a college degree cheaper, faster, and...

More Chinese Students Look to U.s. For Grad School
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More Chinese Students Look to U.s. For Grad School

The International Graduate Admissions Survey found that the number of Chinese applicants to U.S. graduate schools increased by 21 percent from this past school...

Can Computer Science Skills Save Democracy?
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Can Computer Science Skills Save Democracy?

IT recruiters all across the country report difficulty finding the talent that their client companies need. At CCC Blog, Henry Kautz of the Department of Computer...

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Nasa and Tor-Forge Books Partner in Themed Science Fiction Works

In an effort to introduce, inform, and inspire readers about NASA, the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, has partnered with Tor-Forge Books...

Navigate the Booming Computer Science Market
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Navigate the Booming Computer Science Market

Computer science students with bachelor's or master's degrees are in demand now and are expected to be for the next decade. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor...

Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course
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Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course

A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more...

Grad Students' Work Is Better When Teaching and Research Are Part of Mix
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Grad Students' Work Is Better When Teaching and Research Are Part of Mix

Graduate students in the STEM fields who both teach and conduct research demonstrate greater ability to generate testable hypotheses and design experiments than...

Milestone For MIT Press's Bestseller
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Milestone For MIT Press's Bestseller

On Thursday, Aug. 4, the MIT Press held a party in MIT's Stata Center to celebrate the sale of the 500,000th copy of the textbook Introduction to Algorithms....

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Apple Most Popular Employer with Fresh Graduates in Singapore

Consumer electronics giant Apple was chosen as the most popular employer among fresh graduates in Singapore this year again, a latest survey showed.  The survey...

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Education Needs a Digital-Age ­pgrade

If you have a child entering grade school this fall, file away just one number with all those back-to-school forms: 65 percent. Chances are just that good that...

You Can Count on This: Math Ability Is Inborn
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You Can Count on This: Math Ability Is Inborn

Do some people arrive in the world with better math skills than others? A study by a team of psychologists at Johns Hopkins University suggests they do.

Tech Girlz Rule: Microsoft Camps Designed to Draw Young Women Into Field
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Tech Girlz Rule: Microsoft Camps Designed to Draw Young Women Into Field

Microsoft's Fargo, ND campus drew participants from multiple states to a three-day event designed to spark interest and provide role models for the next generation...

Why Are China's Universities Losing Their Star Students?
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Why Are China's Universities Losing Their Star Students?

It happens every summer. In the weeks after the annual National College Entrance Examination, new high school graduates wait for the list. For years, who gets...

China Aims to Renew Status As Scientific Superpower
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China Aims to Renew Status As Scientific Superpower

China was probably the world's earliest technological superpower, inventing the plow, the compass, gunpowder, and block printing. Then, science in the Middle...

How ­niversities Will Produce the Next Generation of Ict Stars
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How ­niversities Will Produce the Next Generation of Ict Stars

The dot-com bust of the early 2000s had a devastating effect on the number of students enrolling in college ICT programs. It has taken almost a decade to recover...

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The Master's as the New Bachelor's

William Klein's story may sound familiar to his fellow graduates. After earning his bachelor's in history from the College at Brockport, he found himself living...

City Students Discover Love of Science
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City Students Discover Love of Science

A 10-year retrospective study has validated Project Exploration's personalized, out-of-school time approach to science education for urban teenagers.

Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point For the Spread of Ideas
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Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point For the Spread of Ideas

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted...
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