Startup Calif. firm builds programmable robot for kids
Robots that kids as young as 5 will be able to program have been developed by a startup in Silicon Valley, which is now launching a crowd-funding campaign to bring them to market.
Academics
Most distant galaxy from Earth is a rapid star maker
A new galaxy, the furthest one from Earth so far discovered, is producing new stars at a rapid rate. Astronomers are excited about the light it can shed on events right after the Big Bang.
Poverty, the brain, depression, and test scores
A look at poverty among US students reveals a spike in the number of states where more than half of the students are living in poverty. What does it mean?
Teacher who used the N-word in class still has a case
A Chicago middle-school teacher was suspended for using the N-word in class to teach a lesson about the negative power of certain language. He's suing the school based on the 1st & 14th Amendments.
Teaching the Common Core with pumpkins
An article in the <em>Beacon-News</em> prompts us to look at how teachers in the early elementary grades might incorporate pumpkins into the lessons under the Common Core.
Computer = wheel, School ∈ [wagon, racecar)
The privatization movement, deserves much more than one of our snapshots, but finding the movement both good and bad, we provide an analogy to increase understanding.
VB captain retrieves drunk friend from drinking party
A team captain for a high school volleyball team in Massachusetts retrieved a friend from a teenage drinking party, but even though she was sober, she was suspended for her friendly actions.
Indiana & 15 school districts sue IRS over Obamacare
The recent shutdown was irrational and illogical, but that doesn't mean there aren't reasonable challenges to the Affordable Care Act from our nation's school districts.
Sign up computer science classes for an 'hour of code'
Be a part of history and join what could be 10 million novice programmers everywhere up for an hour of computer programming during the week of Dec 9-15.
Nobel winners in medicine were federally funded
The Nobel Prize in Medicine went to three US researchers, who discovered, with federal funds, some basic principles about how cells communicate with each other by making and releasing chemicals.