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Should Schools Block Sites Like Wikipedia?
Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student?
Old Software or Open Source?
Computer Science or Info Tech?
CMU Professor Randy Pausch's 'Last Lecture'
Coping Strategies for Women in IT
Free Tuition for Math, Science, and Engineering?
Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement
How Students Are 'Evolving' With Technology
PowerPoint Bad For Learning
Richard Stallman on OLPC
School Boards Rule, Internet No Longer Dangerous
Schools Banning Homework?
Undergrad-built Robots Play "Operation"
The Best Graphing Calculator on the Market?
Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution
Texas Science Director Forced To Resign Over ID Statements
Alex the African Grey Parrot Dies
Best Way To Teach Oneself Math?
Bringing Science and Math Into Writing?
KDE Desktops For 52 Million Students In Brazil
OLPC a Hit in Remote Peruvian Village
School Kids Get Virtual Web Lockers
Wikipedia Corrects Encyclopedia Britannica
Copyright Lobbies Threaten Federal College Funding
Linux To Be Installed In Every Russian School
MIT Releases the Source of MULTICS, Father of UNIX
Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting
New UK Initiative - Make Science Easier
Blackboard Wins Patent Suit Against Desire2Learn
Colleges Wrestle With Thumb Drives
Does Hacking Grades Warrant 20 Years in Jail?
Effective Use of Technology In the Classroom?
Followup On Java As "Damaging" To Students
Getting The Public To Listen To Good Science
High Tech High 2.0
How Open Source Is Changing Education
Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science"
Internet Curfew for College Students?
MIT Drops DRM-Laden Journal Subscription
Mandriva's Open Letter To Steve Ballmer
Paying for Better Math and Science Teachers
Rate of Evolution Metrics Observed
Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid
Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description
Student Financial Aid Database Being Misused
Students In UK Tracked With RFID Chips
Engineering School Grads - Tradesmen or Thinkers?
Getting in to a Top Tier College?
Online Higher Education in Second Life?
University Migrating Students to Windows Live Mail?
What Can 4-yr-olds Understand About Science?
What Micro-Controller Would You Use to Teach With?
Would a CS Degree Be Good for Someone Over 30?
48% of Americans Reject Evolution
CS Programs Changing to Attract Women Students
Discouraging Students from Taking Math
Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist?
French Kids Get OSS on USB Sticks
Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board
MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport
Monkeys and Humans Learn the Same Way
Professors To Ban Students From Citing Wikipedia
RIAA Targets New Colleges, Still Avoids Harvard
Robot Hand Learns How To Learn From Babies
Robot Planes and Helicopters Taught Aerobatics
University of Kansas Adopts 'One Strike' Copyright Infringement Policy
12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions
23,000 Linux PCs For Filipino Schools
A Smart Pillbox To Improve Medication Compliance
A View From Inside the OLPC Project
Bad Science Journalism Gets Schooled
Ben Stein's 'Expelled' - Evolution, Academia and Conformity
Bill Would Tie Financial Aid To Anti-Piracy Plans
Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools
Citizendium After One Year
Colleges Being Remade Into "Repress U"?
Colleges Outsourcing Email To MS Live, Google
Competition In the Free Textbook Market
Ethics In IT
Facebook, Google, and Intellectual Property
Failing Our Geniuses
For CS Majors, How Important Is the "Where?"
Former OLPC CTO Aims to Create $75 Laptop
Freeing the Good Stuff From University Labs
Harvard Adds Open Source to its MBA Curriculum
Hawking Searching For Africa's Einsteins
Heathkit Reincarnates the Hero Robot
High School Sophomores Discover Asteroid
How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators
IU's Choice of Search Engine ChaCha "Explained"
Intel Laptop Competes With One Laptop Per Child
Kids Review the OLPC
Lecture Notes Considered Infringement
Lectures On the Frontiers of Physics Online
MIT Press Book On Open Source Now Free
MIT's OpenCourseWare Program
MS Seeks Patent For Repossessing School Computers
Microsoft Takes On the OLPC
New Science Standards Approved in Florida
News On Laptops For Education
Nigerian Company Sues OLPC
No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever
OLPC and CC Free Content Drive
OLPC, Microsoft Working Toward Dual-Boot XO Laptops
OSSDI to Distribute OpenOffice.org in Schools
On Selling Western PC Games In Japan
Ontario Proposes School Cyber-Bullying Law
Peru Orders 260K OLPCs, Mexico to Get 50K
Real Open Source Applications for Education?
Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer
States Seek Laws to Curb Online Bullying
The Argument For F/OSS In Schools
The Fallacy of Hard Tests
U. of Chicago Law School Blocks Internet Access
U.S. K-12 Schools Must Comply With e-Discovery Rule
UK Schools Warned Off Microsoft Deal
US Patent Office To Re-Examine Blackboard Patent
US School Curriculum to Include Online Safety?
Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students?
Scientist Must Pay to Read His Own Paper
A New Map of the Internet
Billions Face Risks From Climate Change
California Lawmaker Seeks Climate Change as part of Public Education
Can Architects Save Libraries from the Internet?
Canadian University Students Taught To Protect IP
Carnegie Mellon's Digital Library Exceeds 1.5 Million Books
College Board Kills AP Computer Science AB
Creative Documentation
David Pogue Reviews the XO Laptop
Donald Knuth Rips On Unit Tests and More
Dvorak Slams OLPC As 'Naive Fiasco'
Forty Years of LOGO
Google Summer of Code Extends to Highschoolers
Google's Academic TB Swap Project
How To Communicate Science to a Polarized US Audience
Lessons To Learn From The OLPC Project
MIT Student Gets Artistic With LED Art
MIT Sues Frank Gehry Over Buggy $300M CS Building
Mega-Cash Prizes and Revolutionary Science
O'Reilly Opens Online Tech School
OLPC Announces Buy-2-Get-1 XO Laptop Sale
OLPC Launches Buy One, Give One Free Program
One SimCity Per Child
Pope Cancels Speech After Scientists Protest
Psychology, Design and Economics of Slot-Machines
RIAA Adds 23 Colleges to Hit List, Avoids Harvard
RIAA Wins In Court Against UW Madison
School's Out Forever at SV High Tech High
Students Sue Anti-Plagiarism Service
Teachers Give ERP Implementations Failing Grades
The Heretical Freeman Dyson
The Many Paths To Data Corruption
The Science Education Myth
Top 10 Dead (or Dying) Computer Skills
What Are the Advantages/Disadvantages of Game Schools?
Winnie Wrote a Math Book
500-in-1 Electronics Kits?
Best Way to Image and Deploy Dual-Boot Macintosh?
Creating a Full-Time Sysadmin Position at a School?
Future Game Coders - Online Education or College?
Getting the Most Out of a CS Curriculum?
Graduate with Bad Grades or Repeat a Year?
How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System?
Language Learner Looks for Leads in Learning?
One Desktop per Child - miniPCs for Schools?
Using Technology to Improve Kindergarten?
What Do You Do for New User Orientation?
Which IT Careers Are Hot and Which are Not?
Why Are Students Liable for School Insecurity?
Microsoft to Give Away Developer Tools to Students
Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids
The Virtual Teacher
Games With A Purpose Help With Tasks That Tax Computers
YouTube Video Warned About School Shooting
$100 Laptop Platform Moves On
$100 PC Pledges Fail To Meet Minimum
Augmenting Data Beats Better Algorithms
Best Advanced Linux Kernel Training?
Books On Electronics For the Lay Programmer?
Call For Halt To Wikipedia Webcomic Deletions
Changing a School's Tech Disposal Policy?
Chemical Reaction Changes Color Over and Over
Choosing a Unix System Administration Textbook?
College Funding Bill Passes House, P2P Provision Intact
College Librarians Urged To Play Video Games
Controversy Over 140-Year-Old Math Problem
Coolest University Tech Lab Projects in the Works
Cyber Defense Competition Has A New Champion
Earth's Species To Be Cataloged On the Web
Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics
Evolution of Mammals Re-evaluated
FBI Wants to Put Restrictions on Student Freedoms
First Space Lawyer Graduates
Free In-Class Resource For Science Teachers
Galapagos Islands Environment "In Danger"
GameStop Manager Suspended After "Games for Grades"
Gen Y Hits the Library the Most -- But Not For Books
German Wikipedia To Be Published As a Book