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Nsf Grant to Expand Computer Science Principles Curriculum
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Nsf Grant to Expand Computer Science Principles Curriculum

The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding a program to offer "computer science principles" classes at San Diego area high schools, community colleges, and...

In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores
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In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores

Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They're studying Shakespeare's "As...

When Computer Programming Was Women's Work
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When Computer Programming Was Women's Work

Nearly thirty-five years ago, 11% of computer science majors were women. Their proportion continued to rise steadily, reaching its peak (37%) in 1984. Then, over...

Math Anxiety: Deal With It Early, Professor Says
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Math Anxiety: Deal With It Early, Professor Says

Math anxiety is a problem that usually starts at an early age, and if it isn't addressed in grade school, math anxiety can hinder students throughout their education...

Program Encourages Government Employees to Innovate
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Program Encourages Government Employees to Innovate

Now beginning its second year, the Masters of Science in Leadership, offered by Washington University in St. Louis in partnership with the Brookings Institution...

Remedies For Science's Shortage of Superheroes
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Remedies For Science's Shortage of Superheroes

A serious personnel shortage in the global science and engineering workforce involves a the scarcity of real-life superheroes with charm, charisma, people skills...

Stanford Opens Some Information Technology Courses to the World
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Stanford Opens Some Information Technology Courses to the World

As part of a dramatic effort to expand its IT offerings to a global audience, Stanford University will be offering 101-level courses free online on artificial...

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.
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