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Giovanni Albanese

Staff Writer

Giovanni Albanese Jr. is a staff writer for the Center for Digital Education. He has covered business, politics, breaking news and professional soccer over his more than 15-year reporting career. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Salem State University in Massachusetts.

The Family Online Safety Institute, an international nonprofit focused on online safety and healthy technology use for kids and families, aims to meet the moment with research and information for educators, families, elected officials and corporate leaders.
Following through on the promise of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Department of Energy has opened applications for school districts in high-need areas to receive grants for energy-related projects.
Online tutoring has evolved in the years since the pandemic, with schools and tutoring companies adjusting to the new reality of remote learning. For it to succeed, teachers and students both need to make adjustments.
Susan Patrick of the Aurora Institute is working hard to direct education to a more competency-based model and personalized learning, but in order for it to thrive, ed-tech companies must build tools that support it.
A recent report on the nationwide initiative to bring Internet connectivity to schools and libraries found it has been a vital part of modernization, and now it needs to invest in making those connections secure.
Humble Independent School District in Texas is in the second year of an initiative to pique student interest in CTE courses starting in sixth grade, giving students a chance to discover passions and specialize sooner.
Idaho's Empowering Parents program, launched last month and administered through the online platform Odyssey, provides microgrants to help families purchase technology, textbooks, tutoring and educational programs.
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education worked with The Learning Accelerator to create a new guide to help district administrators make smarter choices about ed-tech purchases.
At a webinar on Tuesday featured in the Aurora Institute Symposium, the Colorado Board of Education's Office of Blended Learning explained a two-year plan to gather research on hybrid learning to inform state policy.
A webinar this week hosted by Lightspeed Systems featured experts in cybersecurity and cloud operations who laid out the current climate of K-12 cyber crime and what schools can do to thwart would-be threat actors.