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Is a College Degree the Worst Investment You Can Make — or the Best?

ED Surge

Universities generally cover a wide range of subjects, focused on an academic field, say mathematics or computer science. And the argument is that if a university degree is a good investment, it ought to be substantially more valuable than the opportunity cost. My argument is that the risk is too high, and the returns too low.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

The idea that exam results should be assessed differently based on a student’s socio-economic background is known as differential treatment, and Emil is investigating whether such policies can improve equality and efficiency in education and labour markets. As you can imagine, there are many arguments both for and against these ideas.

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STEM in Science Classrooms – Difference Between Science and Technology

STEM Education Guide

Children may also be interested to learn that video game developers and designers are also classified as computer scientists. In today’s digital era, Pre-K and other young kids can dive into the basics of computer science, coding (codemonkey) , and their practical application.

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Kids Online Learning Statistics 2023

The Maker Mom

were studying business, computer science, and healthcare. Around 90% of K-12 public school teachers assert that digital learning tools are the best option when doing research or gathering data. In addition, there is a glaring example of the disparity in racial equality evident in the United States provided by online education.

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Storage solutions: can we reimagine the trade-offs that limit flash storage devices?

Futurum

One such researcher is Dr Bryan S. Kim, an assistant professor at the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University in the US. Bryan has been researching flash storage systems to discover innovative methods that might improve their efficiency. Bryan and his research group at Syracuse University.

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The Importance of Diversity in the STEM field

Talk STEM

To achieve the level of equality that is truly beneficial for our society’s ability to advance, there has to be both an awareness of the causes of disparity and a mutual commitment for all contributors to work toward solutions. There really should be no argument that there should be a more diverse makeup of STEM contributors.

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Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. The energy of the particles is indicated here by the size of the “token dots”: Continuing this a few more steps we get: At the beginning we started with all particles having equal energies.