Udacity Debuts Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree
(Photo: Medium) Online education leader Udacity, which offers online courses for careers in technology, has announced plans to include a new specialty curriculum that will allow participants to become self-driving car engineers. Up until now, the company’s nanodegrees have typically focused on fundamental coding, including writing Android More...
Donald Trump Jr Uses Speech to Advocate for School Choice
(Photo: The Daily Beast) In his speech at the Republican National Convention last week, Donald Trump Jr. touched upon the education system currently in use in the United States and made a push for school choice More...
Microsoft Professional Degree Offers Data Science Certifications
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) At the annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Microsoft announced its new degree program — the Microsoft Professional Degree (MPD) — that is beginning with More...
Roughly Half of Delaware Students Proficient at Reading, Math
(Photo: Tim Lewis, Creative Commons) Delaware students took their second year of the state’s controversial standardized testing regime and performed better than they did last year – but only approximately More...
UK Gender Gap Shows as Boys Fall Behind Girls on Language
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) A new study on the gender gap in education has shown that in the United Kingdom, boys are almost twice as likely as girls to be falling behind in language skills by the time More...
Background Noise Stifles Toddlers’ Language Learning, Study Says
(Image: Gymboree) A study published in the journal Child Development has shown that loud noises in the background, and particularly television noise, can make it more difficult for toddlers to hone their language More...
Rauner E-mail Called Chicago Teachers Illiterate, Principals Incompetent
(Photo: Steven Vance, Creative Commons) Emails released by Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration under a court order show that Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner told some of the wealthiest and most influential More...
Wells Fargo Takes Student Loans to Amazon Prime Subscribers
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Wells Fargo is now offering Amazon Prime members a discount on interest rates for private student loans in a unique partnership with the online retail giant. “We are focused More...
Arkansas Coding Academy to Offer Boot Camps
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) The University of Central Arkansas is set to offer a new coding program aimed at preparing students for new careers in information technology with an emphasis on coding, which More...
Instagram Posts Attack Australian Students, Rile Community
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) An offensive Instagram account set up by students from a boys-only private school in Australia was created to share photos of girls without their consent and for viewers to vote More...