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4/27/12
TechNews for the week: April 27; April 25; April 23;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Afghanistan, U.S. reach pact on post-2014 American support; Taliban closes dozens of Afghan schools; Pakistani militant seeks protection from bounty hunters;
Syria running out of cash as sanctions take toll; Annan hopeful despite Syrian violence; Obama announces sanctions for tech used in human rights abuses in Iran and Syria;
Israeli military chief: Iran will not build nuclear bomb; says other nations readying their forces for potential strike on Iran;
North Korea issues unusually specific threat;
Bill opens up U.S. airspace to drones; Washington double-talk on nukes;
Confidants: Secret Service agents contend misbehavior on trips not unprecedented;
On Arizona immigration law, Justice Scalia makes no attempt to be fair or impartial; Romney's immigration Etch a Sketch;
Freshmen showdowns with GOP leaders;
Romney sweeps 5 primaries; Mitt Romney’s hyped-up business start-up statistic; Inside Republicans’ anti-Obama war room;
Hatch narrowly forced into Utah Senate primary;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
SC Politics
Study: ALEC has 'secretive influence' in Missouri statehouse and in S.C.; ALEC's Koch brothers connection; ALEC accused of falsely claiming tax exemptions;
Senate Finance to take up SC budget for 2012-13;
Lawmakers ready to kill TERI system; SC retirement commission wants to spend $9M more;
Other news
Good Managers Lead Through a Team;
U.S. Military Robots Of Future;
Finance and Economics
IMF chair: U.S., Europe need to buckle down; The Swedish model for economic recovery; Are Europe’s 'Days of Austerity' Numbered?
60 Minutes: The case against Lehman Brothers; US Supreme Court to hear ‘credit bidding’ case;
Government seizure of oil company affiliate in Argentina stuns markets; Donald Trump demands Scotland nix wind turbines;
Facebook buys AOL patents from Microsoft for $550M;
Social Security’s financial forecast gets darker; Medicare’s outlook unchanged; Health-care Insurance rebates totalling $1.3 billion could be on the way;
Mexican migration plummets to zero; Wal-Mart, now under investigation for bribery, lobbied to amend anti-bribery law;
Education:
1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed; The 13 Most Useless Majors, From Philosophy to Journalism;
U.S. House Moves to Slash Spending on Education; House Passes GOP Bill to Keep Student-Loan Interest Rate From Doubling;
Bringing Open Education to the Mainstream; New TED-Ed Site Turns YouTube Videos Into ‘Flipped’ Lessons;
At Yale, Online Lectures Become Lively Books; When Cell Phones Are the Book: some observations on e-readers;
Cutting Computer Science Departments While Teaching More Students to Program? Florida university plan to 'decimate' computer science draws protest;
U. Florida Dean Drops Plan to Shift Faculty Focus From Research to Teaching;
More Universities Charging More Tuition For Math, Science Programs; Study: Girls Do Not Respond To Feminine Role Models Who Are Good At Math, Science;
Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Content Online; Stop Telling Students to Study for Exams;
At Virginia Tech, computers help solve a math class problem;
Study: Education Faculty Less Accepting of Evolution Than Other Professors;
Veterans' Group Names 26 For-Profits It Says Exploit Its Brand to Lure Students; Vice Dean at U Pennsylvania Resigns After Bogus Doctorate Is Exposed;
NCAA Board Delays New Academic Rules; NCAA Penalizes U. South Carolina for Recruiting Violations;
BCS Changes Could Threaten Conference Shakeups; Bowl Extravagance? How About $182,830 for the Band's Seats;
4/20/12
TechNews for the week: April 20; April 18; April 16;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Coordinated attacks in Afghanistan; U.S. and Taliban fight for key Afghan highway; Thieving politicians imperil Afghanistan; Aid to Pakistan buys little goodwill;
Taliban commander turns self in... for reward on ‘Wanted’ poster; CIA seeks new authority to expand Yemen drone campaign;
10 presidential candidates disqualified in Egypt; Egypt panel definitely bars top 3 hopefuls from elections; Tens of thousands protest military's rule in Egypt;
Friends of Syria hint at use of force; Palestinians deliver letter from Abbas to Israel’s Netanyahu;
U.S., China Engage in Cyber “War Games”; India tests long-range missile;
High oil prices shield Iran from sanctions;
Obama, Romney tax plans for ultra-rich offer window on disparate economic views; Private equity vs. public right to know;
Senate Republicans reject 'Buffett Rule'; GOP pushes business tax cut through divided House;
Santorum letter: Romney as nominee ‘truly frightens me'; Mitt Romney, a man of falsehoods; Fox pundits’ reversals now that ‘Mitt happened’;
Mystery donor gives $10 million to Crossroads GPS to run anti-Obama ads;
Ted Nugent to NRA: "Your Fault for Not Shooting Him"; more on remarks;
Convicted defendants left uninformed of forensic flaws found by Justice Dept.;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
SC Politics
S.C. Board of Education allows Teach for America to expand;
'Crazy' first day of election filing;
Other news
Mayor Bloomberg attacks 'Stand Your Ground' laws;
Exec sings goodbye to Microsoft on YouTube;
Finance and Economics
Goldman Sachs CEO gets $16.2 million pay package; Citigroup’s Chief Rebuffed On Pay by Shareholders; The original sin of executive pay;
Medicare moves to tie doctors’ pay to quality and cost of care; Tax-credit rule could exclude some from health-care benefit;
SEC exemptions let companies skirt rules; US to use statistics to probe lending claims;
Argentina renationalises state oil group; Fracking: Just what are the risks? Reminders of offshore drilling’s risks;
Tech Companies Criticized for Supporting Cyber Intelligence Bill;
Supreme Court Will Hear Case Over Foreign Textbooks Imported and Resold in U.S.;
Education:
Flipped School Model of Instruction: Changing education, one class, one student at a time;
Highest-Earning College Graduates Majored In Math, Science; For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively;
Accreditation Proposals: Panel Pleases Neither Reformers Nor Status Quo Advocates;
Senate Bill Would Bar Colleges From Using Federal Student Aid for Marketing; Unrepaired Education Department System Leaves Thousands Stuck in Default;
Colleges Are Pressured to Open Up Student Data; The Coming Personalization of Higher Ed;
Universities Create Majors In Building Drones; VMI Considers Limiting How Many Students Can Choose Popular Majors;
University of Michigan, Four Other Universities To Offer Free Online Courses; Can essay-making software pass the test?
Reproducing Psychological Studies;
Ohio State U. Moves Forward on Plan to Outsource Parking—for $375-Million;
VMI Accidentally Discloses Seniors’ Grades; U. of Illinois Faces Up to $250,000 in Bills for Ex-President’s Consultants;
Do NCAA Rules Work? How Clean Is Women’s Basketball?
Berkeley Athletic department's House of Cards;
In College Classrooms, the Problem Is High-School Athletics;
4/13/12
TechNews for the week: April 13; April 11; April 9;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Intelligence surge boosts U.S. confidence on Iran’s nuclear program; Diplomats struggle with internal differences ahead of Iran talks;
Iran expected to permanently cut off Internet by August, but denies report;
United States and Afghanistan sign deal on night raids; Officials in Afghanistan stress need for presence of U.S. forces beyond 2014;
Pakistan: U.S. drone strikes must end; Drop in Republican support for Afghan war;
Cease-fire appears to take hold in Syria; U.S. policy questioned as Maliki consolidates power;
South Korea says North Korea has fired long-range rocket; rocket launch failed;
Pentagon to fast-track cyberweapons acquisition;
Wisconsin recall moves to center stage;
Republican policy analysis says Health-care law will add $340 billion to deficit; Poll: More Americans expect Supreme Court’s health-care decision to be political;
Santorum to withdraw from presidential race; Romney looks to general-election campaign; Romney Files Extension On 2011 Taxes;
Fla. rep. (Allen West) alleges Communists in Congress; Santorum Donor Hopes Obama's 'Teleprompters Are Bulletproof';
Fox News identifies a 'Mole'; Gawker gets ‘Fox Mole’ legal threat, responds with photo of Bill O’Reilly and topless woman; Gingrich blasts Fox News;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
SC Politics
School district boundaries 'disappear' under proposed SC law;
Ethics Commission probes Haley money; Commission to hear 7 allegations against Haley;
Other news
U.S. Government Warns of Signs of Spying in Academe;
Video: Talking about rote memorization vs. understanding;
Major League Baseball Takes On the First Amendment;
Finance and Economics
The man in Big Oil’s bully pulpit; Natural gas producers to scale back as prices fall, storage caverns fill up;
China sets up rare earth body to shake up industry;
The 401(k): Americans ‘just not prepared’ to manage their own retirement funds; Healthcare Cost Reports Fail Consumers;
‘Buffett Rule’ vs. Ryan plan: Who should chip in more? States’ tax revenue up 8.9 percent;
Banks test 'CDOs' for trade finance;
Education:
Over 20 Years, State Support for Public Higher Education Fell More Than 25%;
Faculty Group Says Professors’ Pay Isn’t What Makes Colleges Costly; Faculty-salary data; California's community colleges retirement wave;
Negotiators Reach an Impasse on Rules for Judging Teacher-Training Colleges; Overhauling the Graduation-Rate Calculus: Now the Hard Part Begins;
A New Way to Compare Financial-Aid Awards; Tuition Discounting Is the model Broken?
Texas Study Shows Anti-Girl Bias Among High-School Math Teachers; Can Math Be Made Fun? The Chicago Tribune article;
Computer Science: Programming vs. “Technology”; computer literacy means programming;
Majority of OSU faculty oppose parking privatization; Scathing Report on UC-Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Faults Chancellor and Police;
Justice Department Sues Apple and Major Publishers in E-Book Price-Fixing Case;
Tainted Glory: The Corruption of College Sports;
College Presidents Imagine Leaner, Meaner NCAA Rule Book; NCAA Replaces Veteran Vice President of Championships;
Arkansas fires football coach amid scandal; How Urban Meyer broke Florida football;
4/6/12
TechNews for the week: April 6; April 4; April 2;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
White House sees more pain for Iran as it clears way for further sanctions; Exxon Mobil dispute deepens Arab-Kurd split in Iraq;
Opposition in Syria condemns slow efforts to end bloodshed; Syria agrees to pull back forces;
Supreme Court upholds strip-searches for any offense; Deadlock over National Debt;
Spotlight on state responses to health-care law; Most Ala. firms miss immigration goal;
Romney sweeps Wis., Md., D.C. primaries; Romney’s subtle shift to general election mode;
Romney under fire for PAC donation to anti-gay marriage group; Romney using ethics exception to limit disclosure of Bain holdings;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
Other news
Survey: Most Religious States Revealed;
Zorro Kills Thief in Lecture Prank;
Colbert Report: Student Super Pacs;
Finance and Economics
Illegal file sharing isn't 'stealing': Here's why;
The intellectual property of leadership: Innovation at the USPTO; Viacom wins second round of copyright battle against YouTube;
Paul Ryan’s budget plan betrays his own views on income inequality;
European Bank Stress Tests Need Rethink;
Woman's Student Loan Debt Creates Tax Nightmare;
Education:
Why College Matters—and Why It's in Peril; Sharply Different Visions of Colleges' Financial Future;
Low Graduation Rates at 2-Year Colleges Affect Students and State Governments; Data Show How Doubling of Interest-Rate Would Hit Students, by State;
Tuition Go Up Because Taxpayer Support Goes Down; Senior citizens continue to bear burden of student loans;
Foreign-Student Numbers Start to Recover in Japan; Colleges, Ranked by ‘Media Buzz’;
Rules to Measure Quality of Teaching-Training Programs Slowly Take Shape;
Do faculty members work hard enough? Chicago State Tells Its Faculty They Can't Talk to the Media, or Use Social Media, Without Permission ;
Students Endlessly E-Mail Professors for Help; What's good about Udacity CS101;
Computer Science Transitions From Elective to Requirement; more on a CS requirement; How Not To Require CS1 For All students;
Is Student Cheating Driven by Big Income Gaps?
Education Dept. to Crackdown on Fraud Rings; Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up;
ACT College Abruptly Closes Reportedly Cut Off From Federal Financial Aid;
NCAA President Taps Brakes on Ambitious Plans for Change; Is There a Smarter Way to Divvy Up NCAA Tournament Money?
Small Programs Paying Big to Keep Best Coaches; a salary database;
Arkansas Coach Placed on Leave After Lying About Accident; NCAA denies UConn appeal to play in 2013 tourney; Howard U. Suspends Athletics Program;
The Basketball Analyst as University Trustee;