School Levies, Robot Workers, Immigrant School Children & More

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Friday, August 8, 2014 - 9:33am

Another Bad Special Election for School District Levies (The Columbus Dispatch) – Once again, Ohio voters have shown a great unwillingness to back school districts seeking new levies in the August special election.

NASA Engineer Set to Complete First 3-D-Printed Space Cameras (Phys.org) – By the end of September, NASA aerospace engineer Jason Budinoff is expected to complete the first imaging telescopes ever assembled almost exclusively from 3-D-manufactured components.

Pew: Split Views on Robots’ Employment Benefits (10TV) – According to 1,900 respondents to a new survey released Wednesday by Pew Research Center's Internet Project and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center, respondents were evenly divided when asked how they see jobs being affected by artificial intelligence by the year 2025.

Report: Children Falling Behind in Appalachian Ohio (The Columbus Dispatch) – Children living in Ohio’s Appalachian counties are increasingly at a disadvantage compared to kids living elsewhere in Ohio, according to a report released today. 

Schools Brace for up to 50,000 Migrant Kids (USA Today) – Schools across the USA are bracing for as many as 50,000 immigrant children who would start school this fall, most of them unaccompanied by their families.