Today we delve into the use of big data by the Centers for Medicaire and Medicaid Services to try and improve health care costs, Apple's recent diversity report and the growing attention big tech firms are paying to their workforce diversity, the disparity in high speed internet access between urban and rural library systems, strong economic indicators for the U.S., and a growing number of free online academic journals that are challenging the standard subscription based journals.
In today's Daily Digest we will be examining a growing debate over some key words in Ohio's Constitution regarding school funding, a new tool developed by Google to help manage their databases, a start-up supercomputer company that is planning to revolutionize computer processing with an optical processor, the growing focus on education policy in part thanks to some celebrities, and a team from MIT that has analyzed hundreds of hours of MOOC videos to learn what makes an engaging video lecture.
In today's Daily Digest we will be highlighting Denver City Schools move to invest $7 million in developing new STEM career classes for its high schools, new data that shows that white students will no longer be the majority in public schools, a data analytics tool that was able to spot the Ebola epidemic prior to the WHO announcement of the outbreak, the mayor of Milwaukee's push to invest in building a strong library system for the city, and an unusual library storage system in Australia that relies on robots to retrieve and manage the books.
We begin this week by discussing a set of rule changes from the Dept. of Education aimed at easing restrictions on student loans, a new law that will require states to offer in state tuition to veterans regardless of how long they have lived in the state, Michelle Obama and Laura Bush team up to talk about the importance of providing women worldwide with education, manufacturing companies are facing a shortage of STEM trained workers, and a new computer chip offers the power of a supercomputer in the size of a postage stamp thanks to a unique process.
We end this week with a review of the low percentage of Ohio school districts that passed their proposed levies in the recent August special election, an announcement from NASA that it is near completion of a 3D printed telescope, a survey that shows mixed opinions regarding how robots are affecting people's jobs, a report that has found that Ohio students in the Appalachian counties are falling behind their peers in the rest of the state, and with the school year aproaching a number of districts are figuring out how to handle the nearly 50,000 immigrant students who have recently arrived in the U.S.
In today's Digest we will look at the strong growth in service industry jobs in the U.S., a study that has found that more challenging math and science courses can help improve student performance in these topics, Ohio's partnership with Michigan and Indiana to obtain funds to help improve water quality in Lake Erie, the Army's use of 3D printed skulls to study shockwave damage, and a $45M grant that will help Ohio learning centers improve their literacy education efforts.
This Wednesday's Digest will take a look at a range of topics including a set of new additive manufacturing competitions to be hosted by America Makes, a new partnership that is aimed at expanding the digital offerings of the textbook renting company Chegg, a study from Standard & Poor's that suggests that the widening wealth gap is responsible for the slow economic recovering, new rankings from the Princeton Review are out on everything from food services to partying for which Miami University ranks the highest in Ohio, and a recent survey looks at how Americans view the idea of autonomous vehicles.
In today's Daily Digest we discuss Columbus's trash problem that has been created by the mass move out of students near Ohio State, a new program for Columbus City Schools that will provide free lunch to all students, a study that has found that single parents tent to invest more in their child's education than their own retirement, a new test that is aimed at assessing kindergarten readiness in Ohio, and the strong economic impact that National Parks have had for the state of Ohio.
This week we begin by examining which college majors have the highest average salaries, a new program in Ohio that will allow high school students to take the ACT or SAT for free, the elimination of the Ohio Graduation Test requirement for graduting, the Dept. of Education's announcement of a new series of sites aimed at testing more flexible education programs, and a study that has found Ebay to have one of the most diverse workforce amoung the high tech giants.
We begin the month of August by discussing the approval of 37 grants to help Ohio schools improve innovation in their classrooms, the Federal Reserve suggests that the economy may not be growing as strongly as it appears, the architect of the Columbus City Schools data scrubbing scandal has plead no contest, IBM is providing supercomputing time to scientists working on climate change projects, and a number of schools are switching to having year round classes to avoid 'learning loss' in the summer months.
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