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National Defense October 2009 Cynthia D. Miller	Bill to Establish Office of STEM Education The government has more than a dozen agencies dedicated to science, technology, engineering and math initiatives with more than $3 billion allocated to these efforts in 2006.
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser	Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers.
T.H.E. Journal August 26, 2009 David Nagel	Federal Grants Aim To Boost STEM Equity The United States Department of Education announced about $6.3 million in grants to programs aimed at bringing underrepresented groups into STEM careers and pursuing advanced degrees.
AskMen.com	Swine Flu U. Colleges across the country are seeing spikes in the number of students with suspected cases of swine flu as dorms fill up and classes begin for the fall semester.
Chemistry World August 25, 2009 Ned Stafford	PhD Bribes Scandal Hits German Universities A criminal investigation into approximately 100 professors in Germany suspected of taking cash bribes for illegally helping unworthy students obtain doctoral degrees has rattled the foundations of German science and higher education.
Wired August 24, 2009 Clive Thompson	Clive Thompson on the New Literacy The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world.
Fast Company September 2009 Anya Kamenetz	How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is being transformed by a cadre of Web-savvy edupunks.
Fast Company September 2009	5 Startups to Watch Here are five for-profit education startups that attracted attention at the first-ever Venture Capital in Education Summit.
Fast Company September 2009 Robert Safian	Letter from the Editor: Lessons of the Edupunks American business leaders, particularly in the tech sector, lament regularly that our education system isn't producing enough qualified engineers for our future. Why don't they recruit the best talent straight out of high school and train this next generation themselves?
IndustryWeek July 22, 2009 Jonathan Katz	Educating Next-Generation Innovators 'Radical reform' needed in schools to keep the United States competitive in the product-development race.
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