Commerce Secretary Tells Detroit Crowd: Factory Careers Are Rewarding (Detroit Free Press) – US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker pressed manufacturers to promote the idea that factory careers can be innovative and challenging instead of dull, dirty, and dangerous.
Education Technology Spend Reaches $13 Billion (Market Watch) – Research from Futuresource Consulting shows that global spending on education technology within classrooms reached $13 billion last year which is up 11% from 2012.
Judge Rejects Teacher Tenure For California (The New York Times) – Judge Treu of California ruled that teacher tenure laws deprived students of their right to an education under the State Constitution and violated their civil rights.
Justices Turn Back JobsOhio Challenge (The Columbus Dispatch) – The state of Ohio Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the policy group ProgressOhio and the two Democratic lawmakers working with them did not have the right to challenge the constitutionality of Governor John Kasich’s JobsOhio program.
Supercomputer Emulates Teenager to Pass ‘Turing Test’ (The Nation) – British scientists say that a Russian supercomputer pretending to be a 13-year-old boy convinced human judges that it was human, which makes it the first supercomputer in history to pass the benchmark Turing Test.
