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How Do I Talk To 4th Graders About IT?
College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior
Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student?
Russia Mandates Free Software For Public Schools
High Tech High 2.0
How Students Are 'Evolving' With Technology
Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops
Many Universities Spending $100K/Year Enforcing P2P Rules
Schools Banning Homework?
Virginia Begins Open-Source Physics Textbook
Old Software or Open Source?
Open Textbooks Win Over Publishers In CA
Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting
Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement
11-Year-Old Graduates With Degree In Astrophysics
Academic Games Are No Fun
CMU Professor Randy Pausch's 'Last Lecture'
Computer Art For a CS Dept Office?
Computer Science or Info Tech?
Coping Strategies for Women in IT
Google Summer of Code Extends to Highschoolers
Google's Academic TB Swap Project
How Technology Changes Classrooms
Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law
MIT Sues Frank Gehry Over Buggy $300M CS Building
Mega-Cash Prizes and Revolutionary Science
O'Reilly Opens Online Tech School
OLPC Launches Buy One, Give One Free Program
PowerPoint Bad For Learning
Richard Stallman on OLPC
School Boards Rule, Internet No Longer Dangerous
School's Out Forever at SV High Tech High
The Curse of Knowledge Bogs Down Innovation
US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal
Undergrad-built Robots Play "Operation"
Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students
Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows
Cornell University FPGA Class Projects for 2008
Philosophy and Computer Science Revisited
Wikipedia For Schools DVD Released
Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Reporting it
Best Introduction To Programming For Bright 11-14-Year-Olds?
Stephen Hawking Going To Canada
Universities Patenting More Student Ideas
Student Arrested For Classroom Texting
FIRST Robotics Competition Announced
When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education
Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace?
How Microsoft Beats GNU/Linux In Schools
MIT Moves Away From Massive Lecture Halls
Best Paradigm For a First Programming Course?
Mathematicians Deconstruct US News College Rankings
Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors?
User Interface of Major Oscilliscope Brands?
Long-Term PC Preservation Project?
New Grads Shun IT Jobs As "Boring"
Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live
OSS Not Ready for Prime Time in Education?
How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement
Open Source In Public K-12 Schools?
Mathematics Reading List For High School Students?
IT Job Without a Degree?
Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns
Learning To Read With Click and Jane
How To Help Our Public Schools With Technology?
Collegiate Resistance To RIAA In Michigan
How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists
Should Organic Chemistry Be a Premed Requirement?
Facebook Users Get Lower Grades In College
Does Hacking Grades Warrant 20 Years in Jail?
Student Faces Suspension For Spamming Profs
Harvard Adds Open Source to its MBA Curriculum
How To Teach a Healthy Dose of Skepticism?
Microsoft Takes On the OLPC
Physics Experiments To Inspire Undergraduates?
Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University?
Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux"
How Open Source Is Changing Education
US Patent Office To Re-Examine Blackboard Patent
Smart Immigrants Going Home
Internet Curfew for College Students?
New TN Law Forces Universities To Patrol For Copyright Violations
Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description
OLPC 2.0 — One Laptop Foundation Reboots
What Filters Are Right For Kids?
Student Loan Interest Rankles College Grads
Getting Students To Think At Internet Scale
KDE Desktops For 52 Million Students In Brazil
Free Tuition for Math, Science, and Engineering?
How to Deal With an Aging Brain?
Paying for Better Math and Science Teachers
Windows Security and On-line Training Courses?
Warner Music Pushing Music Tax For Universities
Virtual Peace Sim Game Based On America's Army
Walter Bender — Taking Sugar Beyond the XO Laptop
UK Schools Warned Off Microsoft Deal
Texas Science Director Forced To Resign Over ID Statements
Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers?
Blackboard Wins Patent Suit Against Desire2Learn
High School Sophomores Discover Asteroid
Bjarne Stroustrup On Educating Software Developers
U.C. System and Springer Agree To CC-Licensed Journal Articles
What Skills Should Undergrads Have?
OLPC and CC Free Content Drive
Summer Research Programs?
OLPC a Hit in Remote Peruvian Village
US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy
How To Get High-Schoolers Involved In Real Science?
Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty
MIT Drops DRM-Laden Journal Subscription
ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core
Mixed Outcome of Texas Textbook Vote
Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told
Lectures On the Frontiers of Physics Online
23,000 Linux PCs For Filipino Schools
Good Robot Projects For K-5?
Ontario Proposes School Cyber-Bullying Law
Failing Our Geniuses
Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science"
Followup On Java As "Damaging" To Students
Genetic Glitch May Prevent Kids From Learning From Their Mistakes
Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier?
How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators
Ivy League Computer Science Curricula Exposed
Multitasking Considered Detrimental
Professors Slam Java As "Damaging" To Students
MIT Press Book On Open Source Now Free
Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain
OLPC, Microsoft Working Toward Dual-Boot XO Laptops
Copyright Lobbies Threaten Federal College Funding
Interesting Computer Science Jobs?
The Continuing American Decline in CS
Computer Science Major Is Cool Again
Student Financial Aid Database Being Misused
Fun Things To Do With a Math Or Science Degree?
Improving Wikipedia Coverage of Computer Science
No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys
OLPC Downsizes Half of Its Staff, Cuts Sugar
Royal Society of Chemistry Slams UK Exam Standards
Teachers Need an Open Source Education
Bill Would Tie Financial Aid To Anti-Piracy Plans
MS Seeks Patent For Repossessing School Computers
French Kids Get OSS on USB Sticks
Students Sue Anti-Plagiarism Service
Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet
Games With A Purpose Help With Tasks That Tax Computers
YouTube Video Warned About School Shooting
"Going Google" Exposes Students' Email
"Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies
$100 Laptop Platform Moves On
$12 MIT Computer Based On NES, Not Apple II
12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions
13 Pico-Satellites to Launch June 28th
2009 ACM Programming Contest Results and Webcast
21st International Olympiad of Informatics Opens, In Bulgaria and Online
26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive
2nd Generation "$100 Laptop" Will Be an E-Book Reader
350,000 Linux (Virtual) Desktops Land In Brazil
7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell
90% of 200 CUNY Students Can't Do Basic Algebra Problems
A Child's View of the OLPC
A Gates Foundation Education Initiative Fizzles
A High School Programming Curriculum For All Students?
A Mathematician's Lament — an Indictment of US Math Education
A Smart Pillbox To Improve Medication Compliance
A Video Game To Teach AP Level Immunology
A View From Inside the OLPC Project
ACM OSR Linux Issue Available For Free Download
AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks
Advice On Creating an Open Source Textbook?
Alex the African Grey Parrot Dies
Are Academic Journals Obsolete?
Are My Ideas Being Stolen? If So, What Then?
Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science?
Attack of the PowerPoint-Wielding Professors
Augmenting Data Beats Better Algorithms
BYU Prof. Says University Classrooms Will Be "Irrelevant" By 2020
Bad Science Journalism Gets Schooled
Ben Stein's 'Expelled' - Evolution, Academia and Conformity
Best Advanced Linux Kernel Training?
Best Electronics Kits For Adults?
Best Way To Teach Oneself Math?
Blackboard Patent Invalidated By Appellate Court
Books On Electronics For the Lay Programmer?
Break-In Compromises 160k Medical Records At UC Berkeley
Bringing Science and Math Into Writing?
Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools
Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days
California To Move To Online Textbooks
Call For Halt To Wikipedia Webcomic Deletions
Changing a School's Tech Disposal Policy?
Cheap, Cross-Platform Electronic Circuit Simulation Software?
Chemical Reaction Changes Color Over and Over
China Dominates In NSA-Backed Coding Contest
Chinese Schools Ax Green Dam Censorship Software
Choosing a Unix System Administration Textbook?
Citizendium After One Year
Clemson Staffer Outlines College Rankings Manipulation
Collaborative Academic Writing Software?
College Funding Bill Passes House, P2P Provision Intact