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As part of its continued push for economic growth and development in the city located north of Sacramento, the Marysville City Council on Tuesday approved the deployment of a citywide fiber-optic network.

In this Q&A, Dina Ghobashy, senior global strategy lead for education leadership at Microsoft, provides best practices for ensuring device programs make a meaningful difference in improving student outcomes.

Kecia Ray, a senior fellow with the Center for Digital Education, has spent her career thinking about how technology can enhance learning — designing technology programs, conducting research and serving as a turnaround agent for state departments of education. In this Q&A, she discusses best practices for ensuring technology serves its intended purpose.

In this Q&A, Brian Cohen, vice president of the Center for Digital Education, shares firsthand experience gleaned from his more than 20 years as vice chancellor and CIO for the City University of New York (CUNY).

Joshua Schank, former chief innovation officer for L.A. Metro, has joined a boutique consulting firm as a principal partner. Schank led L.A. Metro’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation since 2015.

The Michigan Department of Corrections is expanding the learning management system it first evaluated last year to broaden education opportunities for offenders and better prepare them for their re-entry transition.

In this Q&A, Geri Gillespy, senior program manager for Global Education Engagement at Microsoft, discusses strategies for enhancing learning and maximizing the value of take-home device programs.

The ed tech company’s new Vernier Connections, a platform for high school teachers with hands-on investigations and projects, aims to better students’ critical thinking skills and collaborative efforts to solve problems.

Government agencies have heard about the best practices, read the recommended frameworks and implemented some solid cybersecurity strategies, yet attacks continue to rise. Here's how to keep improving.

Wentworth, who has been in county service since 1996, will lead the Information Services Department as director and CIO. He had been serving as interim CIO since May, following the departure of Jon Walton.

Nine historically Black colleges and universities are piloting a shared digital learning platform that allows students across different institutions to engage with each other and take courses online.

Answer: The league is going to try to find out.

The University of Texas at San Antonio has increasingly participated in research for NASA and other federal agencies in recent years, and it has reached out to Space X in hopes of creating student internships and jobs.

The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness has launched a disinformation portal to give residents a fighting chance at distinguishing real from falsified online content.

Tornadoes can appear without warning, so it’s important to be prepared. The Georgia Emergency Management Agency offers tips and information to get ready for tornado season. What’s the difference between a watch and a warning?

The new building will house 20 cutting-edge labs and the school’s electrical engineering, computer technology, machining, advanced manufacturing, construction management, practical electricity and HVAC programs.

Cash App, a popular mobile payment service, said a data breach could potentially affect 8.2 million of the app’s current and former users. A former employee inappropriately downloaded reports with customer data.

In 2019, California banned the use of facial recognition in police cameras. That law, however, is set to expire at the end of 2022. The state should consider extending the ban based on the tech’s limitations.

A city audit indicates that the Portland Police Bureau should have been more transparent and purposeful with the personal information it collected about racial justice protesters in 2020.

United States totaled more than 46,000 in 2020.

Specifically, the private meteorological organization says there will be 16 to 20 named storms this summer, with six to eight strengthening into hurricanes and three to five becoming major storms.

The Hartford-based museum has a range of STEM program packages for schools, costing from $5,000 to $25,000, designed to help ignite students’ passions in the field and prepare them for the workforce.

According to both Howell and County Manager Greg Martin, the county has been running an advertisement for medics to man county ambulances, but it’s not getting responses. Howell stated he is currently short five full-time paramedics.

Seconds later they got a tornado warning on their cellphones and a phone call from their hysterical 17-year-old daughter that she was trapped inside her trailer, just yards away from the main house, and that it was shaking and she couldn't get out.