Addressing The Shortage Of Women In Silicon Valley from NPR.org

This week thousands of women gathered in Portland, Ore., for the Grace Hopper Celebration, the world's largest technical conference for women and computing. High-tech companies are hiring, but there aren't nearly enough women to meet the demand.
Kate Schmalzried, a graduate student at Stanford, recalls one of her very first classes at the university — Computer Science 106A.
"That was really a good introduction to women in tech — there weren't many women in the class," she says, chuckling. "I distinctly remember being the only girl in my section."

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Do grade schoolers need technology to suceed? From ESchoolNews

Two news stories on Sunday painted starkly different pictures about the use of technology in teaching, learning and communicating.
In The New York Times on Sunday, Matt Richtel wrote another installment in the “Grading the Digital School” series, this one about the Waldorf School of the Peninsula in California: “A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute.”
Yes, that’s right — a school in the heart of the Silicon Valley, whose student body consists of the children of some of the techiest people on the planet, where computers are off limits. As one of those parents says: For the full article please go here.