education

Wednesday 20 February

Stanford tuition free for 5 figure families (16:20) - Great news out of Stanford: beginning next school year standard tuition will be free for students whose family income is less than $100,000/year. If your family income is under $60,000 Stanford will also pay much of your room and board.... | 1 Comments

Canadian PSAs (20:01) - This made me laugh. Is that bad? There are 4 more on the other side. ... | 1 Comments

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know (13:10) - I'm one class from finishing my Masters and I only know about 60% of these words. I blame computers. Jefe: We have many beautiful pinatas for your birthday celebration, each one filled with little surprises! El Guapo: How many pinatas?... | 1 Comments

Are you Racist? (18:37) - Harvard researchers have put together a interactive test to determine if you prefer white people, black people or are indifferent. The current results (as of this posting) show that 70% of those who have taken the test show a preference... | 0 Comments

Taking the Life out of College Life (12:33) - I wonder where Bob Jones University falls on the list of the nation's top party schools with Residence Hall Rules like these. Of course, the easy solution would be to move out of the residence hall... too bad that is... | 0 Comments
Woman denied teaching degree over MySpace photo (08:52) - When will people learn that MySpace and Facebook are increasingly becoming the place for employers and future employers to dig up dirt on you. That being said, this case is a little overboard in my opinion... although she was teaching... | 2 Comments

how to stop a baby from crying (01:31) - With wine. Well, wine techniques. (if you know a baby, does it work?)... | 0 Comments

MIT automatic paper generator exposes "non-profit" conference (16:18) - Folks at MIT have put together an automatic paper generation engine to create bogus papers and see if they get accepted by conferences. The papers make for some pretty funny if completely nonsencial reading. The latest publication of myself and... | 0 Comments

What Larry Summers said (13:40) - On the insistence of Harvard faculty, Larry Summers, the president of Harvard has released the transcript of his contraversial Remarks at NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce. Now you can decide for yourself if his remarks were...

High School Miseducation (17:50) - This quote sums it up: "These results are not only disturbing; they are dangerous." WASHINGTON (AP) -- The way many high school students see it, government censorship of newspapers may not be a bad thing, and flag burning is hardly...

international textbooks (22:17) - As Barnes & Noble continues to buy out independent college bookstores it seems as if the price of textbooks has skyrocketed past unaffordable straight to ludicrous. Faced with a $143 list price for one of my books I decided to...

Women have less innate ability at math and science. (10:28) - According to a recent talk given by Harvard president Lawrence Summers, women have less innate ability at math and science. During an economic conference Dr. Summers said that genetics, not just social factors, played a role in keeping women from...

The Sims as a Language Learning Tool (10:56) - This commentary examines how content originally designed for entertainment purposes can be modified to provide natural and context rich language learning environments, without sacrificing its entertainment value. First, I examine a modification to the number one selling video game The...

Rejecting the next Bill Gates (12:59) - "The facts are plain. U.S. visa procedures have become far too cumbersome, and bureaucrats are turning down far more applications than ever before. One crucial result is the dramatic decline of foreign students in the U.S.�the first shift downward in...

The Avalon Project (16:32) - The Avalon Project is an online resource featuring "digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government," from the Code of Hammurabi to the Americans With Disabilities Act. If you're pondering the voting responsibilities of...

Are Educational Games Possible? (00:42) - Games have yet to revolutionize the education system or even make much impact. Some would say there just isn't a way to make learning fun. But there are some areas where software can be truly one of the best ways...

Free Books Part 2: Free Textbooks (03:15) - If you can go to college for $1200 a quarter for tuition but have to spend $300 on books, you've just increased the cost of education by 25%. Obviously, some people can afford to go to much more expensive schools...

Free Books (00:19) - Yesterday, on Slashdot, Ben Crowell reviewed five free calculus textbooks. But more important than these five books, in my opinion, is the place where these reviews will be going. It didn't get mentioned in the Slashdot article, but the site...