Daily Digest

Today we take a look at the results of the recent Ohio Graduation Tests, changes being made to Ohio's teacher evaluation rules that will put less weight on student performance, a British company's use of 3D printing to create a phone for the visually impaired, Purdue's new interactive learning system that is helping retain engineering students, and an international competition to use big data to solve climate change related problems. 

Today we will be taking a look at the affect that the Common Core standards are having on ed-tech spending, the potential environmental benefits of autonomous vehicles, the growing input from companies to help train college students for the jobs that are actually available, changes to the ACT tests to include more STEM topics, and the average decrease in state spending on education for the third year in a row. 

This Monday's Digest takes a look at efforts by a number of colleges to provide degrees in high demand fields such as big data, Dayton's strong growth due to immigration, a new approach to teaching STEM topics, University of Wisconsin's new feminist biology degree, and Meijer's new dairy production plan thtat will add 100 jobs to Ohio.

The Digest for this Friday takes a look at a debate over how effective education apps actually are for children, a STEM camp being put on in Houston, TX to attract students to various STEM fields, a new bill proposed by the Ohio House to give more funding to charter schools that support dropouts, a Longfellow donation to promote STEM in the Durham, NC schools, and a new set of Legos that depict women as scientists. 

The Digest for this Thursday will examine new changes being proposed by the Ohio legislature regarding how teachers are evaluated, the unusual number of enrollment spots still open at some of Ohio's colleges, a new makerspace in Columbus that is set to be the largest in the world, U. of Arizona's new supercomputer that has pushed its way onto the Top500 and Green500 lists, and the implications for learning caused by focusing on typing over handwriting schools. 

Today's Digest highlights the difficulty of balancing student data privacy with use, a report from Google looking at minority and female involvement in STEm fields, the stagnant enrollment in science and engineering degrees, the strong opposition of allowing concealed carry weapons on campus, and a look at what jobs women are filling in STEM fields. 

Today's Digest highlights a growing trend of using mobile devices on campuses to provide remote access to buildings, a new academic freedom policy at U. of Oregon aimed at allowing students and facult to express their opinions, the value of a college degree for the Millennial generation, big data's ability to predict health trends in a person, and where the U.S. falls in the Global Index of Cognitive Skills rankings.

This week starts with a look at a set of new data analytics programs that will tap into the goverments Medicare records to improve medical spending efficiency, a rebutal to the recent New York Times article discussing times where college degrees are not worth it, the approval of the FIRST Act by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, a look at the importance of STEM for improving the lives of minorities, and the weather's impact on the U.S. economy for the first part of 2014. 

Today we will be looking at the White House's fourth annual Science Fair, the push to create an education technology industry in Boston and Balitomore, the increasing demand for people who can work with big data analytics, a new Colorado library that provides a range of technologies for its community, and the shrinking number of summer jobs for teenagers in northeast Ohio.

For this Wednesday's Digest we will be highlighting a new set of regulations in California that will make it lega for autonomous vehicles to be drive, IBM's offer to some major universities to use the Watson supercomputer to aid in research, research showing the long term financial benefits of having a college degree, a new Australian supercomputer that will help in weather prediction, and reports showing central Ohio's strong economic growth.