Ohio’s Constitutional Update Could Eliminate School Funding Mandate (StateImpact) – A debate is rising in Ohio over some key words in the state Constitution that in essence mandate the state to fund public schools. Some wish to remove the words to allow more flexibility in school decisions while others see the phrase as necessary to protect schools.
Google's big-data tool, Mesa, holds petabytes of data across multiple servers (Computer World) – Google has developed a new database management tool called Mesa that allows it to store and analyze vast amounts of data across multiple different data centers.
Light-speed Computing: Prototype Optical Processor Set to Revolutionize Supercomputing (Scientific Computing) – An English computer start-up has announced that it will soon be launching a prototype computer that uses an optical processor. The company claims that this processor will help them build a desktop computer with the power of a supercomputer.
Education Reform Is Becoming A Celebrity Cause (IdeaStream) – Education policy is working its way to the forefront of attention in part thanks to the growing number of celebrities who have been weighing in on issues ranging from teacher tenure to the Common Core.
MIT Team Turns 6.9 Million Clicks Into Insights To Improve Online Education (Forbes) – Using data from millions of EdX videos, researchers at MIT have identified a list of attributes that appear to have an impact on how likely viewers are to be engaged in the lecture.
