U.S. colleges retool programming classes
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The lesson plan was called "Artificial Unintelligence," but it was written more like a comic book than a syllabus for a serious computer science class.
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Harvard University announced on Wednesday its biggest curriculum overhaul in three decades, putting new emphasis on sensitive religious and cultural issues, the sciences and overcoming U.S. "parochialism."
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For a glimpse of the latest split between tradition and technology on campus, watch professor Tom Walsh illustrate his lecture with a jumbo piece of chalk on a blackboard while students take notes on laptops and hand-held computers.
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The Harvard Law School faculty has voted unanimously to overhaul its first-year curriculum by focusing more on complex problem-solving, international law, and modern law-making by government bodies and administrative agencies, marking a significant departure from more than a century of traditional legal education.
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AJAX, .Net, PHP and other Web 2.0 programming skills top the in-demand list.
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By GREG BLUESTEIN  ATLANTA - The lesson plan was called "Artificial Unintelligence," but it was written more like a comic book than a syllabus for a serious computer science class.
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Flood of applications, financial aid changes have roiled admissions process for students and colleges.
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Thousands of university applications are thought to have been delayed by computer problems.
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Several schools have sharply increased tuition to match colleges they consider their rivals, while also providing more financial assistance.
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Tired of feeding the meter? Dial your cell phone. That's just what students and faculty have been doing at the University of California-Santa Barbara, in the year and a half since the campus, with help from IBM, overhauled its parking system.
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Providing one-stop shops for students looking at colleges, 35 states ease the labyrinth of class planning, financial aid, transcripts and online applications. Some private-sector sites offer unbiased student rankings.
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It's not perfect yet, but Eclipse marks a new way of developing applications.
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By Joann DiGennaro  WASHINGTON  --  At an educators' meeting in Washington last fall, conversation turned to whether the federal government should support programming for this nation's most gifted and talented high school students.
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Attendees at this year&#146;s PowerSchool University ramped up their student information system skills with the new PowerSchool 4.0 and augmented their development activities through peer networking. [Aug 3]
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American schools aren't exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. Now educators are starting to look at what needs to be done to prepare students to compete in a new global economy.
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A new concept of the college campus is taking root: a small city in the country that is not for only the young.
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A group of U.S. senators has introduced legislation that aims to improve how U.S. workers and industries compete against the rest of the world by pumping more money into math and science programs.