Boyd WatersOpinion How Professors Help Rip Off Students The New York TimesAs the semester ends, instructors at universities and community colleges around the country will begin placing their orders for next year’s textbooks. But not all professors will pay enough attention something
Boyd WatersSoftware Librecorps: an organization that connects student free/open source software developers with humanitarian NGOs boingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Librecorps is a program based at the Rochester Institute for Technology's Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) initiative that works with UNICEF to …
Boyd WatersNews 'An outright lie': Ohio lawmaker shown to be linked to group pushing rightwing Christian bills Guardian US - Jessica Glenza in New YorkAn Ohio legislator who said he had “no knowledge” of a rightwing Christian bill mill called Project Blitz is, in fact, the co-chair of the state branch of an organization behind the campaign. The Ohio
Boyd WatersConfederate States of AmericaThe lawyer who caught UNC giving $2.5m to white nationalists orders the white nationalists to create a $2.5m fund for Black boingboing.net - Cory Doctorow T Greg Doucette is the lawyer who put the pieces together on the University of North Carolina's $2.5m handout to the white nationalist group the Sons …
Boyd WatersEducation There Is a Right Way to Teach Reading, and Mississippi Knows It The New York TimesThat’s a phrase people would use when national education rankings came out because no matter how poorly your state performed, you could be sure things were worse in Mississippi. Not anymore. New results
Boyd WatersStudents Beacon High School Is Half White. That’s Why Students Walked Out. The New York Times - Eliza ShapiroNaia Timmons, a junior from Harlem, stood surrounded by classmates in the middle of the street outside Beacon High School as hail began to fall. She shouted into a bullhorn: “I continue to recognize the
Boyd WatersCollege & University ICE arrested 250 foreign-born people for the most heinous of crimes: pursuing higher education boingboing.net - Thom Dunn For the last year, the Detroit Free Press has been reporting on the strange saga of the University of Farmington, a fake educational institution …
Boyd WatersStudents Stop Teaching Code. Solicit Predictions Instead. upperlinecode.com - Jeff Olson I’m serious — stop it with the gatekeeper introductions to content. In theory, it makes sense to start with the core building blocks and work your way …
Boyd WatersStudents 37 students accepted to CS Research mentorship program blog.google - Sloan Davis Computer science research addresses problems that affect all of our lives, from producing better flood forecasts to live captions and more. To ensure …
Boyd WatersHBCUs Pete Buttigieg Is a Lying MF The Root - Michael Harriot I hid it in a white Piggly Wiggly bag in the back of the dishwasher. Every single time I returned to that tiny apartment, I opened up that …
Boyd WatersNews Consumer Protection Agency Is Failing Student Loan Borrowers, Lawsuit Says NPR - Chris ArnoldUpdated at 12:26 p.m. ET A nonprofit student loan group is suing the nation's most powerful consumer watchdog agency. The lawsuit, first obtained by NPR, alleges that the Consumer Financial Protection
Boyd WatersEnvironment Climate Planners Use VR to Show Communities How Sea-Level Rise Decimates Them Gizmodo - Alyse Stanley Earth is the hottest it’s ever been recorded, it feels like a new “mega gargantuan Godzilla” storm record gets broken every other month, and …
Boyd WatersNews U. of California leaders support dropping use of SAT, ACT Associated PressBERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Top leaders at the University of California say they support dropping the SAT and ACT exams from admission requirement. UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol T. Christ, along with the UC
Boyd WatersStudents Nazi Symbols and Racist Memes: Combating School Intolerance The New York Times - Neil MacFarquharBEAVERTON, Ore. — An 18-year-old senior at Battle Ground High School in Washington State was immersed in a fighting video game with a couple of online friends in March when news broke about a violent targeting
Boyd WatersToddlers How to build a button box for a toddler boingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder The creator of the CodeParade video channel made an interactive pushbutton busyboard for his toddler. He bought a bunch of knobs and switches, wired …
Boyd WatersEducation Quiet Rooms: Illinois schools lead the nation in imprisoning very young, disabled children in isolation chambers boingboing.net - Cory Doctorow 20 years ago, Illinois was rocked by a scandal after the widespread practice of locking schoolchildren, especially those with disabilities or special …
Boyd Waters Boy genius will graduate college at age 9 boingboing.net - David Pescovitz Laurent Simons is pursuing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) in the Netherlands. He's 9 …
Boyd Waters AP-NORC poll: Many youths say high school diploma is enough Associated Press - By COLLIN BINKLEY and HANNAH FINGERHUT, Associated PressAlthough most young Americans believe in the value of higher education, many still consider a high school diploma alone to be enough for success, according to a survey of teens and young adults by The
Boyd Waters WIRED on Twitter twitter.com - @WIRED For the second year in a row, more than a dozen AI researchers from African countries have been denied visas to a major AI conference in Canada.
Boyd WatersEducation Facing lawsuit, DeVos erases student loans for 1,500 Associated Press - By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education WriterFacing a federal lawsuit and mounting criticism, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday said she will forgive loans for more than 1,500 borrowers who attended a pair of for-profit colleges that shut
Boyd Waters This D.C. teacher of the year just won $7,500. He’s giving it back to his students. The Washington Post - Perry SteinThe seventh-grade science teacher at Capital City Public Charter School plans to use most of his $7,500 prize — $5,000, to be precise — to help send a graduating senior interested in science to college.
Boyd Waters Florida county commissioners against renewal of library's New York Times subscription because it's "fake news" boingboing.net - David Pescovitz The Board of County Commissioners in Citrus County, Florida opposed the renewal of the regional public library's digital subscription to the New York …
Boyd WatersNews A principal in Florida said he couldn't confirm the Holocaust was a 'factual' event. The school district just fired him CNN - By Ryan Prior, CNN(CNN) — A former high school principal in Boca Raton, Florida, was fired on Wednesday as a result of emails he sent to a student's parent in April 2018 that appeared to cast doubt on the historical truth
Boyd Waters Reading Scores on National Exam Decline in Half the States The New York Times - Erica L. Green and Dana GoldsteinWASHINGTON — America’s fourth and eighth graders are losing ground in their ability to read literature and academic texts, according to a rigorous national assessment released Wednesday that is likely
Boyd Waters TeenTech Leicester goes into orbit! | TeenTech teentech.com - Maggie Philbin From the future of autonomous cars to the future of space technology, the TeenTech Leicester Festival imaginatively demonstrated how the region is at …
Boyd Waters 25,000 educators swarmed City Hall with their demands in day 5 of the Chicago teachers' strike CNN - By Holly Yan and Bill Kirkos, CNN(CNN) — Thousands of teachers flooded the streets of downtown Chicago to deliver a message to City Hall: They won't stop striking until they get what they want. About 25,000 members of the Chicago Teachers
Boyd Waters Elizabeth Warren Unveils $800 Billion Plan to Reshape U.S. Public Education Bloomberg - Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou Senator Elizabeth Warren unveiled an $800 billion plan to fund her progressive proposal for reshaping U.S. public education and disclosed that her …
Boyd Waters The Fight to Desegregate New York Schools The New York TimesTwo teenagers — one black, the other white — growing up a few miles apart have had two very different experiences in the New York City public school system. The gap in the quality of their education has
