Potholes and Big Data: Crowdsourcing Our Way to Better Government (WIRED) – The city of Boston has developed a smartphone app that has greatly improved their efficiency in maintaining roads. Drivers are able to turn on the app and the phone will track ‘bumps’ and submit their location to a cloud server for the city to analyze and locate potential road hazards.
Indiana Exits Common Core, But Teachers Are Still Waiting On Next Standards (StateImpact) – After being adopted by 45 states in 2010, the Common Core standards have been officially repealed by the state of Indiana, which now has till July to develop its own state curriculum.
Ohio Education Officials Say State Has Safeguards Against Widespread Cheating on Standardized Tests (StateImpact) – As third graders prepare to take the first round of the new state reading test, officials have expressed confidence that the safeguards put in place will prevent cheating from both students and teachers.
What a concept: Enrolling in college not for the degree, just to learn (Miami Herald) – Nationwide there is a growing trend of students enrolling in higher education programs in order to gain technical job related skills but with no intent of graduating. To meet the demands of these students some schools have turned to short term certificates.
Google Reinvents How Cloud Computing Is Priced (WIRED) – Google has announced steep price cuts for its various cloud computing services in order to bridge that gap between cloud based and hardware based options and make cloud computing a more competitive option for larger firms.
