![]() ![]() Testing, Testing…Ĭornell College and Rivier University announced they are dropping the ACT/SAT requirements for admissions. Education in the CourtsĪ federal appeals court has ruled that copyright holders must consider fair use before sending DMCA takedown notices. Inside Higher Ed looks at coding boot camps, including General Assembly, which have gone through various state regulatory approval processes. Zeynep Tufekci’s response: “How de Blasio Should Expand Computer Science Education (Hint: Don't Arrest Ninth Graders Showing the Way).” NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a ten-year deadline for all schools in the city to offer computer science (although CS won’t be a graduation requirement). Manitoba announced an Open Textbook Initiative, that will create a library of free and openly licensed textbooks for the province’s most highly enrolled college classes. ![]() Seattle teachers have reached a tentative agreement with their school district, NPR reports, ending their week-long strike. The Obama Administration also unveiled its new “ college scorecard.” I’ve put the round-up of responses below under “Data and ‘Research’.” Applicants will be asked to provide the prior prior year’s tax information, rather than the prior year’s. The Obama Administration announced that it’s making a change to FAFSA, starting in the fall of next year. But I think it's important that we call out the injustice of the school-to-prison pipeline as it affects all students, particularly students of color, not just those students who are science whizzes. The outpouring of support for Ahmed Mohamed was truly wonderful to see. “ How to Make Your Own Homemade Clock That Isn’t a Bomb.” ![]() More via WaPo, Alan Levine, The Dallas Morning News, POTUS, Sylvia Martinez, Will Richardson, and Wired. Mohamed was handcuffed by police officers and interrogated for hours. His engineering instructor praised the design the English teacher thought it was a bomb. On Tuesday, he showed his creation to his teachers. One evening, he built a clock from circuit boards and wiring, which he stashed in a pencil case. Mohamed, a ninth-grader at Irving MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, loved to tinker with electronics. The simple facts of the case surrounding the 14-year-old student’s arrest are infuriating. Jared Keller on Ahmed Mohamed's experiences and “ The Criminalization of the American Schoolyard”: A NASA shirt! /nR4gt992gB- Anil Dash September 16, 2015 I expect they will have more to say tomorrow, but Ahmed's sister asked me to share this photo. ![]()
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