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6/27/08
TechNews for the week: June 27; June 25; June 23;
War Politics and Reports (Also, see Free Speech and Homeland Security)
Bush, Iraq President discuss plan to keep troops in Iraq after year-end; U.S. officials report Israel conducted war exercise of attack on Iran;
The Army starts its own Air (Force) Unit; GAO Report: U.S. Funding to Pakistan Plagued With Problems;
McCain's Top Adviser Says a terror strike would help McCain; Top Adviser Has Found Success Mixing Money, Politics;
White House Dismissed Legal Advice On Detainees; Cheney aide denies writing interrogation memos;
Opposition mounts to U.S. Plan to Fingerprint All Foreigners Exiting country;
Senate Debates Rewrite of '78 Law That Created Secret Intelligence Court;
Investigation finds Justice Department broke law with Ideology-Based Hiring;
New Crisis of Late Loan Payments Threatens Healthy Banks; Vital Part of Housing Bill for homeowners designed to bail out banks;
Rebate checks diverted by Treasury Department to pay overdue bills for child support, students loans and back taxes;
Spending Bill for Student Aid and NIH Hits Partisan Roadblock in House;
Obama's Rise sparks increase in racist and white supremacist activity;
The Saudi Oil Spigot;
Information technology:
Security issues
Design issues
Other news
YouTube's Dominance Of Web Video Grows ;
Net politics:
Good sources include Politechbot.com and Greplaw (cyberlaw forum at Harvard Law School);
Patent issues
Trademark, domain names
First Amendment, Free Speech
Other News
The Bill Gates Exit Interview;
Study: Voting at Schools Makes People More Likely to Support Education Funds;
Obama Is Linked In;
Education:
Report Charts Rise in Test Scores of Public-School Students; Poll finds Most Americans Satisfied With College Prep Offered by Local Public Schools;
Survey Compares High-School Seniors Across 3 Decades;
Experts in Maryland Urge Longer Day for Middle-School students to Raise Scores; Survey: Cleanliness Is Key for Student Concentration;
Return of the Math Wars; Study: Study: Teachers not being taught math properly; Teacher-Prep Programs' Fuzzy Math;
Ed-Tech: In-class computers vs. labs; Podcasting in Instruction: Moving Beyond the Obvious; Gmail takes on Australian Ed;
Smart Footballs From Smarter Students; Naval Academy holds STEM camp for approximately 100 students;
'U.S. News' Considers Steps to Prevent Law Schools From 'Gaming' the Rankings;
Columbia U. Fires Teachers College Professor Accused of Rampant Plagiarism;
Web Site That Gave Students Improper Help on GMAT Is Hit With $2.3-Million Penalty; Naval Academy under attack for noon prayers;
Southern Miss Ordered to Pay $1.2-Million to 3 Former Coaches;
U. Wisconsin at Parkside's Incoming Chancellor Faces Criminal Investigation at previous college;
Scholars set date for Odysseus' bloody homecoming;
6/20/08
TechNews for the week: June 20; June 18; June 16;
War Politics and Reports (Also, see Free Speech and Homeland Security)
Key Iraqi Leaders Deliver Setbacks to U.S.; Big Oil Firms Ready to Sign no-bid Agreements With Iraq ;
Rice: Israel having negative effect on peace talks;
Neocons Institute says deal with Iran by bombing oil wells; Bush Hawks Aggressively Working to Rewrite Accepted Iraq War History;
Report Questions Pentagon Accounts of origin of harsh interrogation techniques; CIA lawyers advised Pentagon on tactics;
Bush administration wants to rewrite the official evidence against Guantanamo Bay detainees;
Former top Pentagon lawyer says shift into 'torture' tactics came from the top;
Critics Study Possible Limits to Habeas Corpus Ruling;
White House Not Required to Disclose E-mail Documents; E-mails show Abramoff Used White House To Help Get Rid of Roadblocks;
Supreme Court to rule in suit whether Ashcroft and others in Bush Administration are protected from lawsuits;
House agrees to bill that expands spying and grants Telecoms amnesty;
McCain's Fiscal Responsiblity - living off credit card debt;
Anatomy of a meltdown: the U.S. housing bust;
Information technology:
Security issues
Design issues
Other news
Web 2.0: New Rules; Lies, Damned Lies and Project Metrics;
Screencast.com springs into version 1;
Net politics:
Good sources include Politechbot.com and Greplaw (cyberlaw forum at Harvard Law School);
Copyright issues
Patent issues
First Amendment, Free Speech
Other News
Obama Fights Smears Via Web 2.0 Approach;
Secret Technology Weapon Promises Best Election Slate;
Today's Teens: Breakin' The Law, Breakin' The Law;
Study Debunks Myth About Internet Usage at Office;
Education:
Report School-Accountability Laws Don't Seem to Help High Achievers;
College Board finds New SAT Is as Predictive as Old SAT; Standardized testing: Pigs is pigs and data is data;
Georgia hopes to simplify HOPE scholarship restrictions;
Minn State Colleges, Universities system launches online accountability dashboard;
3 Mathematics Associations Caution Against Overreliance on Impact Factor to evaluate scholarship;
NAACP and ACLU Concerned About New Admissions Standards at Nevada Universities;
Short and Sweet: Technology Shrinks the Lecture; The battle between Web 2.0 and the classroom;
Teachers say they need more technology training; Kids have high expectation for web content;
U Hawaii program teaches youths STEM skills;
Crime and Punishment, College Sports Style; Southeast Missouri State U. penalized by NCAA for Rules Violations in Basketball;
South Carolina New College-Planning Guide Is No Light Beach Read;
Massive student databases is asking for trouble;
6/13/08
TechNews for the week: June 13; June 11; June 9;
War Politics and Reports (Also, see Free Speech and Homeland Security)
Iraq Prime Minister Criticizes U.S. Demands to Stay in Iraq; al Sadr readies his fighters to oppose draft security agreement;
Pentagon tells Guantanamo Bay interrogators to destroy notes in case they were called to testify about harsh treatment of detainees;
Supreme Court says Detainees Can Seek Release; Bush Strategy for Detention Now in Disarray;
Lindsey Graham: Amend Constitution to overturn court's ruling;
Clinton suspends historic campaign, endorses Obama; Videos: McCain vs. McCain; Candidates' computer literacy;
Tax Policy Center compares Obama's and McCain's tax plans;
American Professors Who Wrote 'The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy' Face Cool Reception From Israelis;
How HUD Policy Fed The Mortgage Crisis;
Republican Senators block Tax Hike On Oil Profits; Cheney admits error about Chinese oil drilling off Cuba;
Court papers say Former NRCC Treasurer Embezzled $500,000;
The Onion on Airport Security and Voting;
Information technology:
Security issues
Design issues
Other news
The new Browser War; Google Maps meets 'Grand Theft Auto' ; IBM's Mashup Play; Wikis meet spreadsheets;
Behind the Scenes technology at the NBA Finals; Putting a TV Network in Your Network;
The seven habits of wildly unsuccessful CIOs;
U.S. military supercomputer sets computing record.;
Net politics:
Good sources include Politechbot.com and Greplaw (cyberlaw forum at Harvard Law School);
Copyright issues
Patent issues
First Amendment, Free Speech
Other News
Wachovia Turns To Wikis, Blogs To Support Growth; IM Good for Productivity, Even if Bad for IT;
Treasury Dept. Rolling Out Social Security Debit Card;
CIA's Secret Intellipedia Has Universal Relevance;
Education:
2008 Enrollment In U.S. Expected To Set Record ; Study: College students who are "morning people" perform better on tests;
Study: college major does not affect future salaries as strongly as many people believe;
Report finds Asian-American students' success obscures educational needs;
Study finds No Evidence That Advanced Teacher Certification Improves Teaching;
Boost Proposed for Science Education; Staying Smart in Dumbed-Down Times;
U Oregon Project Applies GIS to Historic Maps;
Free Lecture Capture Platform Adds Blackboard integration, Podcasting Features;
New Journals Tackle Research on College Sports;
New Employee-Verification System for Colleges With Federal Contracts;
Protest and Heads Roll at New Mexico State U.;
U. South Carolina Computer Theft Exposes Personal Information of Thousands;
6/6/08
TechNews for the week: June 6; June 4; June 2;
War Politics and Reports (Also, see Free Speech and Homeland Security)
Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control; Iraq cites problems with US security pact;
US threatens to hold $50 bn of Iraqi foreign reserves until Iraq signs defense agreement;
Report says Bush Inflated Threat From Iraq's Banned Weapons; NY Times says military historian plays loose with the facts;
Democrats Pounce on McCain's Iraq Blunder;
McCain Backs Bush no-warrant Wiretaps; his campaign Staffed By Telecom Immunity Lobbyists;
Michigan and Florida: She Said, He Said; DNC gives Delegates Each Get Half a Vote; Obama Claims Nomination ;
Nearby Firing Ranges Complicate Soldiers' Recovery From Stress;
AF recruiting part-time geeks;
Information technology:
Security issues
Design issues
Other news
Will Google Fancy Panorama BI Cloud?; City With Private Roads Gets Deleted from Google Maps;
Adobe Acrobat, PDF Get Flash Support; Streaming Media Podcast #18: Microsoft's New Video Tools;
Move Over, AJAX, ARAX Is Here;
Net politics:
Good sources include Politechbot.com and Greplaw (cyberlaw forum at Harvard Law School);
Patent issues
Trademark, domain names
First Amendment, Free Speech
Privacy issues
Homeland Security
Other News
Enterprise 2.0 Conference Preview: Sony Gets Wiki With It;
Comcast, Time Warner Target Heavy Internet Users;
U.S., Antigua Won't Resolve Net Gambling Dispute;
Education:
Women gather to discuss "female brain drain" in science, engineering;
Report finds Dropout rates for minority students increasing; The need to Make Students Info Literate;
Carnegie Institution program seeks to train more math educators; Virginia camp to introduce high school students to science, engineering careers;
Accelerated Math Adds Up To a Division Over Merits; Dumbing down our math tests?;
Report Faults Many 'P-16' Councils as Ineffective; Stanford Law school Drops Letter Grades;
Critic says U. of Phoenix's Report on Students' Progress Is 'Disingenuous,'; Can we Trust Students to Learn in Web 2.0?;
Ballmer: “Everything gets delivered in an electronic form”; Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally; A YouTube Founder's Youniversity;
Oregon State U. to Cut Italian and Other Language Programs;
Should Colleges Sell Ads to Pay for New Technology?; Free Online Tool Helps Users Record and Share Research;
Seattle U. Stops Student Party Because of Facebook Post; Free speech for students, revisited;
Missouri University introduces copyright test to gain P2P access ;
Sallie Mae Chief Acknowledges Mistake in Trying to Lend to All Students;
West Virginia U. President Will Resign to end degree controversy; S.C. Legislators Funnel Charity Money Through Universities;