We have all been flummoxed by some kind of math problem, staring blankly at the instructions, muttering "It's all Greek to me."
Social Sciences
Jul 13, 2015
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Hackers shut down the Canadian intelligence agency's website Tuesday, officials said.
Security
Jun 30, 2015
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A federal preschool program did more than improve educational opportunities for poor children in Mississippi during the 1960s. The program also gave a political and economic boost to the state's civil rights activists, according ...
Social Sciences
Jun 25, 2015
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The Canadian government's public website for applying for social services and downloading official forms was briefly shut down Wednesday in a cyberattack, a senior minister said.
Security
Jun 17, 2015
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Foreshadowing what could be a contentious battle with Congress, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday that rolling back federal testing requirements in math and reading would deprive students, parents and their schools ...
Social Sciences
Jan 12, 2015
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While there is only one world power on the internet, that situation will not last forever. The internet's underpinning technologies were mostly created in the US, the initial networks were based there – and today the US ...
Internet
Nov 14, 2014
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A groundbreaking study from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) has found that African-American students in first grade experience smaller gains in reading when they attend segregated schools—but the ...
Social Sciences
Jul 29, 2014
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Civil liberties campaigners began a legal challenge Monday against the alleged use of mass surveillance programmes by the British intelligence services, in what they said were historic public hearings sparked by the Snowden ...
Security
Jul 14, 2014
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An online magazine reported Wednesday that the National Security Agency and the FBI covertly scanned the emails of five prominent Muslim-Americans under the government's secret surveillance program aimed at foreign terrorists ...
Security
Jul 9, 2014
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As the violent militant Islamic group Boko Haram recently kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, it sparked intentional outrage, particularly over the girls being sold into slavery.
Social Sciences
May 26, 2014
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