What Google Earth Captured Seems Like A Horrible Nightmare. Wait Until You See What They Found

Ever wondered how Google Earth creates its images? It uses a process called texture mapping, pioneered in animation and video game technology, to overlay a flat satellite image over a 3-D terrain map. If you think of how a flat label is wrapped around a soda bottle, you’ve got the right idea.

Most of the time, this works well, but there’s a glitch every now and then. The result is a crazy distortion of the landscape as 2-D and 3-D worlds collide. Brooklyn artist Clement Valla documents these surreal screw-ups on his website. Fortunately, Google Earth corrects them promptly, but these fleeting landscapes sure are fun.

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Big Data Makes Its Mark on Schools—For Better or Worse

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Nationwide student database provides new possibilities for learning providers, raises concern among parents.

10 places where anyone can learn to code

Teens, tweens and kids are often referred to as “digital natives.” Having grown up with the Internet, smartphones and tablets, they’re often extraordinarily adept at interacting with digital technology. But Mitch Resnick, who spoke at TEDxBeaconStreet in November, is skeptical of this descriptor. Sure, young people can text and chat and play games, he says, “but that doesn’t really make you fluent.” Mitch Resnick: Let’s teach kids to code Fluency, Resnick proposes in today’s talk, comes not through interacting with new technologies, but through creating them. The former is like reading, while the latter is like writing. He means this figuratively — that creating new technologies, like writing a book, requires creative expression — but also literally: to make new computer programs, you actually must write the code.The point isn’t to create a generation of programmers, Resnick argues. Rather, it’s that coding is a gateway to broader learning. “When you learn to read, you can then read to learn. And it’s the same thing with coding: If you learn to code, you can code to learn,” he says. Learning to code means learning how to think creatively, reason systematically and work collaboratively. And these skills are applicable to any profession — as well as to expressing yourself in your personal life, too.In his talk, Resnick describes Scratch, the programming software that he and a research group at MIT Media Lab developed to allow people to easily create and share their own interactive games and animations. Below, find 10 more places you can learn to code, incorporating Resnick’s suggestions and our own.

1. At Codecademy, you can take lessons on writing simple commands in JavaScript, HTML and CSS, Python and Ruby. (See this New York Times piece from last March, on Codecademy and other code-teaching sites, for a sense of the landscape.)
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2. One of many programs geared toward females who want to code, Girl Develop It is an international nonprofit that provides mentorship and instruction. “We are committed to making sure women of all ages, races, education levels, income, and upbringing can build confidence in their skill set to develop web and mobile applications,” their website reads. “By teaching women around the world from diverse backgrounds to learn software development, we can help women improve their careers and confidence in their everyday lives.”
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3. Stanford University’s Udacity is one of many sites that make college courses—including Introduction to Computer Science—available online for free. (See our post on free online courses for more ideas.)
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4. If college courses seem a little slow, consider Code Racer, a “multi-player live coding game.” Newbies can learn to build a website using HTML and CSS, while the more experienced can test their adeptness at coding.
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5. The Computer Clubhouse, which Resnick co-founded, works to “help young people from low-income communities learn to express themselves creatively with new technologies,” as he describes. According to Clubhouse estimates, more than 25,000 kids work with mentors through the program every year.
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6. Through CoderDojo’s volunteer-led sessions, young people can learn to code, go on tours of tech companies and hear guest speakers. (Know how to code? You can set up your own CoderDojo!)
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7. Code School offers online courses in a wide range of programming languages, design and web tools.
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8. Similarly, Treehouse (the parent site of Code Racer) provides online video courses and exercises to help you learn technology skills.
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9. Girls Who Code, geared specifically toward 13- to 17-year-old girls, pairs instruction and mentorship to “educate, inspire and equip” students to pursue their engineering and tech dreams. “Today, just 3.6% of Fortune 500 companies are led by women, and less than 10% of venture capital-backed companies have female founders. Yet females use the internet 17% more than their male counterparts,” the website notes.
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10. Through workshops for young girls of color, Black Girls Code aims to help address the “dearth of African-American women in science, technology, engineering and math professions,” founder Kimberly Bryant writes, and build “a new generation of coders, coders who will become builders of technological innovation and of their own futures.”

While we’re at it: bonus! General Assembly offers a variety of coding courses at their campuses across the globe. Additionally, their free online platform, Dash, teaches HTML, CSS and Javascript through fun projects on a simple interface that is accessible from your web browser.

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Could This Idiotic Product Help “The Internet Of Things” Go Mainstream?

via Fast Company

EGG MINDER MIGHT BE DUMB PRODUCT DESIGN, BUT AS A PIECE OF MASS COMMUNICATION ABOUT WEB-CONNECTED PRODUCTS, IT JUST MIGHT BE GENIUS.

Pop quiz: how many eggs are in your refrigerator right now? For most of us, there are three possible answers:

1. Enough.
2. Who cares.
3. I don’t know, let me open the fridge and check.

But if you crave the ability to know, urgently, specifically, and numerically, how many eggs are in your fridge at any given moment, Egg Minder–a new product from crowdsourced-gadget emporium Quirky–has you covered. It’s a special-purpose Internet-connected egg tray that links to a smartphone app that will tell you, with pinpoint accuracy, how many eggs are in the tray. From anywhere in the world!

Egg Minder is dumb, and you don’t need it. (How dumb? To quote Quirky’s own product evaluation video, “it’s a pain in the ass,” “superfluous,” “really silly,” and “the height of laziness.”)

So why did it get made–especially in a high-profile partnership with GE? Who knows, but GE does have an interest in making “the Internet of things” as mainstream as possible. But so far, the Internet of things (or IoT) is a difficult concept to sell–it’s confined mainly to fringe hacker/maker gizmos like Twine, or promotional experiments like Berg’s Twitter-powered cuckoo clock. I’d bet your mom has never heard of it, and that you’d have a tough time explaining it to her.

Enter Egg Minder. It’s cheap, it’s simple, and it’s the best “Internet of things” explainer I’ve seen yet. As an actual product with actual utility, it’s a reach at best. But as communication–a way of making the IoT instantly understandable and approachable for almost anyone–Egg Minder is great design. That might be why GE is throwing its weight behind it. As Quartz noted, “Egg Minder has the potential to help normalize the notion that pretty soon just about everything we own will have some degree of self-awareness.” A fridge full of “self aware stuff” sounds weird and/or creepy, but Egg Minder itself seems cute, familiar, and superficially intriguing. GE could probably give two farts about how many Egg Minders it actually sells–but if Egg Minder helps sell the idea of the Internet of things to you, me, and everyone we know, it’s a solid investment.

[hat tip: Quartz]

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John Pavlus

John Pavlus is a writer and filmmaker focusing on science, tech, and design topics. His writing has appeared in Wired, New York, Scientific American, Technology Review, BBC Future, and other outlets. He also creates original web videos for top media brands like Conde Nast, NPR, Slate, Nature Publishing Group, and The New York Times Magazine through his production company, Small Mammal. He lives in Portland, OR.

5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think

Economist Keith Chen starts today’s talk with an observation: to say, “This is my uncle,” in Chinese, you have no choice but to encode more information about said uncle. The language requires that you denote the side the uncle is on, whether he’s related by marriage or birth and, if it’s your father’s brother, whether he’s older or younger. Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money? “All of this information is obligatory. Chinese doesn’t let me ignore it,” says Chen. “In fact, if I want to speak correctly, Chinese forces me to constantly think about it.”This got Chen wondering: Is there a connection between language and how we think and behave? In particular, Chen wanted to know: does our language affect our economic decisions?Chen designed a study — which he describes in detail in this blog post — to look at how language might affect individual’s ability to save for the future. According to his results, it does — big time.While “futured languages,” like English, distinguish between the past, present and future, “futureless languages,” like Chinese, use the same phrasing to describe the events of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Using vast inventories of data and meticulous analysis, Chen found that huge economic differences accompany this linguistic discrepancy. Futureless language speakers are 30 percent more likely to report having saved in any given year than futured language speakers. (This amounts to 25 percent more savings by retirement, if income is held constant.) Chen’s explanation: When we speak about the future as more distinct from the present, it feels more distant — and we’re less motivated to save money now in favor of monetary comfort years down the line.

But that’s only the beginning. There’s a wide field of research on the link between language and both psychology and behavior. Here, a few fascinating examples:

1. Navigation and Pormpuraawans
   In Pormpuraaw, an Australian Aboriginal community, you wouldn’t refer to an object as on your “left” or “right,” but rather as “northeast” or “southwest,” writes Stanford psychology professor Lera Boroditsky (and an expert in linguistic-cultural connections) in the Wall Street Journal. About a third of the world’s languages discuss space in these kinds of absolute terms rather than the relative ones we use in English, according to Boroditsky. “As a result of this constant linguistic training,” she writes, “speakers of such languages are remarkably good at staying oriented and keeping track of where they are, even in unfamiliar landscapes.” On a research trip to Australia, Boroditsky and her colleague found that Pormpuraawans, who speak Kuuk Thaayorre, not only knew instinctively in which direction they were facing, but also always arranged pictures in a temporal progression from east to west.
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2. Blame and English Speakers
   In the same article, Boroditsky notes that in English, we’ll often say that someone broke a vase even if it was an accident, but Spanish and Japanese speakers tend to say that the vase broke itself. Boroditsky describes a study by her student Caitlin Fausey in which English speakers were much more likely to remember who accidentally popped balloons, broke eggs, or spilled drinks in a video than Spanish or Japanese speakers. (Guilt alert!) Not only that, but there’s a correlation between a focus on agents in English and our criminal-justice bent toward punishing transgressors rather than restituting victims, Boroditsky argues.
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3. Color among Zuñi and Russian Speakers
   Our ability to distinguish between colors follows the terms in which we describe them, as Chen notes in the academic paper in which he presents his research (forthcoming in the American Economic Review; PDF here). A 1954 study found that Zuñi speakers, who don’t differentiate between orange and yellow, have trouble telling them apart. Russian speakers, on the other hand, have separate words for light blue (goluboy) and dark blue (siniy). According to a 2007 study, they’re better than English speakers at picking out blues close to the goluboy/siniy threshold.
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4. Gender in Finnish and Hebrew
   In Hebrew, gender markers are all over the place, whereas Finnish doesn’t mark gender at all, Boroditsky writes in Scientific American (PDF). A study done in the 1980s found that, yup, thought follows suit: kids who spoke Hebrew knew their own genders a year earlier than those who grew up speaking Finnish. (Speakers of English, in which gender referents fall in the middle, were in between on that timeline, too.)

101 People who made a difference at iNacol 2014

One of the best things about the iNACOL 2014 Symposium is the crowd of blended and online learning #SmartLeaders.

Originally posted on Getting Smart Blog

Here’s our list of 101 interesting people we met at #iNACOL14 who you should know.

iNACOL Board of Directors

1. Susan Patrick (@susandpatrick), iNACOL CEO

2. Linda Pittenger, National Center for Innovation in Education, iNACOL chair

3. Amy Anderson, Donnell-Kay Foundation, leading ReSchool Colorado, a greenfield design project

4. Nicholas Donohue (@NickDonohueNMEF), Nellie Mae Education Foundation (@NellieMaeEdFdn), the leader in student-centered learning (attended telephonically)

5. Dr. Gisèle Huff, Jaquelin Hume Foundation, champion of blended learning

6. Jessie Woolley-Wilson (@JessieWW), DreamBox Learning, leader in adaptive K-8 math

7. Julie Young (@JulieYoungEdu), founder of Florida Virtual School

8. Virgel Hammonds, superintendent at Maine RSU2

9. Mickey Revenaugh, co-founder of Connections Education

(and Tom Vander Ark (@tvanderark), CEO, Getting Smart (@Getting_Smart)

Keynoters

10. Gene Wilhoit, National Center for Innovation in Education, laid out a vision for next gen accountability (see paperand our review).

11. Michael Horn (@michaelbhorn), co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute, gave an overview of his new book,BLENDED (see our Q&A)

12. Heather Staker (@hstaker), co-author of BLENDED, provided a day long workshop

13. Vicki Phillips (@drvickip), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (@GatesFoundation), and she brought a couple dozen colleagues

14. Sal Khan, Khan Academy (@KhanAcademy), great resources, great story (again)

 Startups

15. Brian Peddle (@brianpeddle), Motivis, a spinout from Southern New Hampshire University

16. Margaret Roth (@teachingdaisy), COO and Co-Founder, An Estuary, a blended PD community

17. Elliot Sanchez (@ElliotSanchez), CEO & Founder, mSchools, a blended technical assistance provider

18. Jennifer Gibson, Lesson Planet, teachers sharing lessons

19. Karl Rectanus @KarlRectanus, Learn, supporting short cycle EdTech trials

20. Chris Niemeyer, LearnZillion (@LearnZillion), a blended PD community

21. John Danner, co-founder of Rocketship and Zeal, a mobile learning startup

Growing companies you should know:

22. Curt Allen, Agilix (@Agilix), the experts in personalized learning that brought you Brainhoney and Buzz. Mark Tullis, Sean Casey, Jeff Moore and team hosted a great dinner.

23. John Sipe, Curriculum Associates (@CurriculumAssoc), i-Ready adaptive learning K-8 and Ready reading & math. Cynthia Austen and team hosted a great dinner.

24. Sari Factor, Edgenuity (@Edgenuityinc), content and platform powering models like Carpe Diem

25. Greg Levin, Fuel Education (@FuelEducation), powering new blended models

26. Jeff Kwitkowski & Mary Gifford, K12

27. Lisa Frumkes, Rosetta Stone (@RosettaStoneEd), presented Elevate & Empower, how world language teachers are leading the way

28. Keith Oelrich, Learning.com (@learningdotcom) featured Curriculum Foundry

29. Nicole Foster, Scholastic, was demonstrating READ180 (@READ180) and System 44

30. Anthony Kim, Education Elements (@EdElements), a leader in blended learning

31. Sajan George, Matchbook Learning, turning around struggling schools

32. Curtis Linton, School Improvement Network, Edivation PD system

33. Clay Whitehead, Presence Learning (@PresenceLearn) discussed how technology is transforming special ed

34. Judson Aungst (@judson76), Blackboard (@Blackboard)

35. Jenna Schuette Talbot, shared social media best practices and strategies

36. Tracy Immel (@tracy_immel), led the DreamBox Learning presence

Big impact nonprofits:

37. Nigel Nisbet (@nigel_nisbet), MIND Research Institute, unpacked how teachers can implement blended and competency-based learning from the ground up

38. Margaret Angel, CityBridge Foundation, described the NGLC-funded Breakthrough Schools Initiative in Washington, DC

39. Neil Campbell, Policy Director for Personalized and Blended Learning, Foundation for Excellence in Education, supported teams designing blended schools

40. Karla Phillips, State Policy of Competency-Based Learning, Foundation for Excellence in Education, discussed the benefits of Course Access

41. Minda Corso (@MindaC), Foundation for Excellence in Education, shared social media best practices and strategies

42. Mark Schneiderman, Senior Director of Education Policy, SIIA

43. Scott Ellis & Kira Keane (@KeaneKira), The Learning Accelerator, a blended learning assistance provider and grantmaker

44. Thomas Arnett, Research Fellow, Clayton Christensen Institute

45. Deb Pence, Idaho PTECH Network, spreading CTE opportunity statewide

46. Phyllis Lockett and Chris Liang-Vergara (@LiangVergara), LEAP Innovations

47. Carmen Coleman works with Gene Wilhoit and Linda Pittenger at the National Center for Innovation in Education(read about her great work as a superintendent)

48. Chris Sturgis (@Sturgis_Chris), CompetencyWorks, the online competency community sponsored by iNACOL

49. Judy Bauernschmidt, Colorado eLearning Collaborative, was advocating for more and better online learning

50. Shaun Adamec (@shaunadaemec), Nellie Mae Education Foundation (@NellieMaeEdFdn), led a session on the power of framing in shaping debate. 

School leaders

51. Diane Tavenner, Jon Dean & Brian Johnson, Summit Public Schools (@SummitPS), the coolest secondary network around (see feature)

52. Brian Blake and the leadership team from Sanborn Regional School District where sharing their experience competency-based

53. Rebecca Midles leads competency-based work at Lindsay Unified School District

54. Gisele Falls, GSWLA, shared findings from Elevate & Empower, how world language teachers are leaders in the shift to personalized learning

55. Pablo Mejia, IDEA Public School, lead a blended learning session

56. Tom Willis, Cornerstone Schools, described their K-12 Detroit blend

57. Liz Arney, Aspire Public Schools, discussed lessons captured in her new book, Go Blended

58. Deborah Gist (@deborahgist), Rhode Island Commissioner of Education

59. Brian Stack (@bstackbu), Principal, Sanborn Regional High School

60. John Rice (@johnricedc), Supporting blended learning with District of Columbia Public Schools

61. Haley Hart, Teacher at Educational Achievement Authority of Michigan

62. Erin Wilcox, Associate Superintendent with Colorado Springs Christian Schools

63. Scott Muri (@ScottMuri), Deputy Superintendent with Fulton County Schools (See Fulton County Schools Innovation Update)

64. Jeremy Vidito (@JeremyVidito), Starr Detroit Academy discussed blended learning in elementary and middle schools,

65. Moss Pike (@mosspike), World Languages Dept. and MS TILT member at Harvard Westlake, shared findings from recently released Elevate and Empower paper–how world language teachers are leading the shift to next gen learning

66. Robyn Bagley, School Director of Career Path High, an early college high school in Kaysville Utah, led a session with two teachers from the school

67. Nicole Tempel Assisi, Thrive Public Schools (@ThrivePS), leads a great new K-8 school in San Diego (see 100 Schools Worth Visiting)

68. Cindy Elsberry, superintendent in NGLC winning Horry County, SC (See Lessons from Horry County)

69. Helen Griffith, e3 Civic High in San Diego (see 100 Schools Worth Visiting)

70. Stephen Harris (@Stephen_H), an Aussie visionary and head of school at North Beaches Christian School, north of Sydney, check out a new vision for school design

71. Jessica Saxon, teacher at St Edmonds School in Wharoonga, Australia was blending in ways that make students smile.

72.Charles Carver, Nexus Lansing (see feature)

73. DeLaina Tonks, Mountain Heights Academy (formerly Open High of Utah)

74. Angela Underwood, Nolan K-8, Education Achievement Authority, Detroit (see feature)

75. Keven Erickson, Kettle Moraine School District (see feature and 100 Schools Worth Visiting)

76. Dawn Smith (@Dawn4Math), RUSD Principal who shared best-practices for creating a student-centered learning environment

Smart Cities

Mary Ryerse (@maryryerse) framed a Smart Cities dialogue and Carri Schneider led a discussion on policy, read the full recap

 77. Matt Williams, KnowledgeWorks, led a collective impact discussion

78. Matt Candler (@mcandler), 4.0 Schools, beamed in to discuss the importance of incubating new tools and schools

79. Shawn Rubin (@ShawnCRubin), Highlander Institute (@Highlanderinst), led a discussion on talent development

80. Tim Hilborn, TRECA (@TRECA_Ohio) led a discussion on sustained leadership

Impact investors

81. Bruno Manno, Walton Family Foundation

82. Alex Hernandez (@ThinkSchools), Charter School Growth Fund

83. Scott Benson, Henry Hipps, and Tom Stritikus, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

84. Luis de le Fuente and Russ Altenburg, Broad Foundation

States

85. Paul Leather, deputy commissioner in New Hampshire, described efforts to improve teacher prep in a state leading on competency-based learning

86. Christina Jean, Colorado Department of Education, Innovation & Blended Learning Specialist

87. Jamie Fitzpatrick, President of Michigan Virtual University, was part of a panel on course access

88. Dave Lefkowith,, talked about the Louisiana Supplemental Course Academy

Competency-based teacher prep & development

89. Bridget Foster, Digital Promise, described the framework for Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning

90. Beth Rabbitt (@BethRabbitt), The Learning Accelerator, described their talent development portfolio including Highlander Institute, Relay GSE,

91. David Haglund, deputy superintendent in Santa Ana described blended PD in his district

Online/blended learning leaders

92. John Watson, led an informative discussion on Keeping Pace with K-12 Digital Learning

93. Mark Lonergan, MIND Research Institute, discussed blended learning in elementary and middle schools

94. Jeff Kerscher (@kerscherjp), shared key ELA blended learning strategies that will enable practical implementation

95. Stacy Hawthorne (@StacyHaw), Hawthorne Education, #iNACOL14 Twitter superstar

96. Robanne Stading (@tchlrn_ak), Alaska based blended special ed instructor

97. Eric Nentrup (@ericnentrup), Indy based ELA Instructor/Ed Tech Coach

98. Aaron Kaswell, teacher, MS88 in Queens, a NewClassrooms site

99. Kia Bordner (#RiledUpTales), provided the student voice with fellow online and blended students

100.Jason Ellingson, Collins-Maxwell superintendent and Iowa ASCD president. Jason Ellingson

101.Tom Ryan, eLearn Institute

Thanks to Jonathan Oglesby (@oglesbyj), Allison Powell, Linda Wood, and the whole iNACOL (@nacol) team that made #iNACOL14 possible.

The 104 Smartest Public Colleges In America

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                   Does your school make the cut?

If you want to be surrounded with some of the smartest students in the US and get the most bang for your buck, you may want to consider one of the following universities.

From our recent list of the smartest colleges in America, we pulled out the top 100 public schools. These colleges offer brainpower and affordability, since the average annual cost of attending an in-state public school is $8,500, according to US News & World Report. Compare that to the average private school cost of $30,500 — a difference of $22,000 a year.

In order to determine a school’s overall smarts, Jonathan Wai, a Duke University Talent Identification Program researcher, analyzed the average standardized test scores that schools report to US News. (Those that did not report scores are not included.)

These tests are often criticized, but research shows that both the SAT and ACT are good measures of general cognitive ability and give a reasonable snapshot of the brainpower level of that school.

ACT scores were translated into SAT scores (math + verbal) using this concordance table, so that all schools could be compared using one metric. Then, an average of the 25th and 75th percentile was computed (see a full description of the methodology and limitations here).

On the following ranking, a (2) next to the school’s name indicates that some or all students aren’t required to supply scores; a (3) indicates that the school did not supply all students it has scores for, or did not tell US News if it had; a (4) indicates that the data is from a previous year, rather than from the most recent year; and a (9) indicates that the school may not require scores from all applicants and that it may not have submitted data for all students.

Here are the smartest public colleges in America:

Smarts Rank	School	Average    SAT
1	Georgia Institute of Technology	1385
2	University of California-Berkeley	1375
3	College of William and Mary	1365
4	United States Air Force Academy	1360
5	University of Virginia	1355
6	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	1340
6	Colorado School of Mines	1340
8	University of California-Los Angeles	1320
9	University of Maryland-College Park	1310
10	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	1305
11	Ohio State University-Columbus	1300
12	Binghamton University-SUNY	1294
13	University of California-San Diego	1290
14	University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign	1285
14	New College of Florida	1285
16	United States Military Academy (3)	1283
17	United States Naval Academy	1280
18	United States Coast Guard Academy (3)	1275
19	University of Pittsburgh	1270
20	SUNY-Geneseo	1269
21	United States Merchant Marine Academy	1267
22	University of Wisconsin-Madison	1265
22	University of Florida	1265
22	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	1265
22	Missouri University of Science & Technology	1265
26	University of Texas-Austin	1260
26	University of Texas-Dallas	1260
28	University of California-Santa Barbara	1250
28	Stony Brook University-SUNY	1250
30	Clemson University	1245
30	Miami University-Oxford	1245
30	Truman State University	1245
33	University of Georgia	1240
34	North Carolina State University-Raleigh	1235
34	College of New Jersey	1235
36	University of Washington	1230
36	University of Connecticut	1230
36	CUNY-Baruch College	1230
39	Florida State University	1225
39	Auburn University	1225
39	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo (3)	1225
42	Virginia Tech	1220
43	University of California-Davis	1210
43	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick	1210
43	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	1210
43	University of Maryland-Baltimore County	1210
47	University of Colorado-Boulder	1205
47	University of Tennessee	1205
47	University of South Carolina	1205
47	Michigan Technological University	1205
51	Purdue University-West Lafayette	1200
52	University of Delaware	1195
52	University of North Carolina-Asheville	1195
54	St. Mary’s College of Maryland (3)	1190
54	University of North Carolina-Wilmington	1190
56	University of Vermont	1185
56	University of Alabama	1185
56	University of Oklahoma	1185
56	University of Alabama-Huntsville	1185
56	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology	1185
61	Texas A&M University-College Station	1180
61	University of Central Florida	1180
63	Pennsylvania State University-University Park	1175
63	Indiana University-Bloomington	1175
65	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry	1170
65	University of South Florida	1170
65	CUNY-Hunter College	1170
68	University of California-Irvine	1165
68	University of Iowa	1165
68	Michigan State University (3)	1165
68	University of Missouri	1165
68	Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge	1165
68	University of Arkansas	1165
68	University of Minnesota-Morris (3)	1165
75	College of Charleston (3)	1160
75	Christopher Newport University (2)	1160
77	University at Buffalo-SUNY	1155
77	Salisbury University (9)	1155
77	University of North Florida	1155
80	George Mason University (2)	1150
80	Florida International University	1150
80	Virginia Military Institute	1150
83	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	1145
83	Iowa State University	1145
83	University of Kansas	1145
83	Arizona State University-Tempe (2)	1145
83	University of Cincinnati	1145
83	University of Kentucky	1145
83	Oklahoma State University	1145
83	University of Alabama-Birmingham	1145
83	University of Louisville (3)	1145
83	James Madison University	1145
83	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse	1145
94	University of California-Santa Cruz	1140
94	New Jersey Institute of Technology	1140
94	University of Houston	1140
94	Georgia College & State University	1140
98	Appalachian State University	1135
99	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	1130
100	Colorado State University	1125
100	University of Wyoming	1125
100	SUNY-New Paltz	1125
100	CUNY-Queens College	1125
100	University of Michigan-Dearborn	1125

Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly included the University of San Diego, a private institution. The list has been reranked and updated with a new total of 104 schools, due to the five-way tie for No. 100. 

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