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The nonprofit believes preparing students for a digital future is less about expanding access to devices than about ensuring technology use is grounded in purpose, understanding and meaningful outcomes. -
Hartford Public Schools in Connecticut have contracted with Timely, because budget constraints and reduced staffing have made it increasingly difficult for the district to create master schedules.
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A survey of educators who work in career and technical education found that nearly a third of those who don't already have programs in IT and cybersecurity at their school expect one will launch in the next five years.
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A report on ed-tech practices at more than 100 U.S. K-12 school districts found that app use has proliferated since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, creating more data privacy considerations.
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The STEM career pathway program directed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will become part of the Buffalo Public Schools’ K-12 curriculum, school officials announced this week.
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The nonprofit endowed by Gilead Sciences has donated $3 million to expand Xavier University’s STEM programming for high schoolers. The grant will provide access to intensive pre-college programs to more than 1,000 students.
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The company Winsor Learning will offer free professional development resources for teachers to help combat declines in K-12 reading and math test scores that have steepened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Dixon and Sterling school districts alerted parents and teachers to communications disruptions caused by a “credential stuffing” cyber attack on the widely used messaging app Seesaw last week.
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A nationwide survey of education and state leaders conducted by the State Educational Technology Directors Association revealed that cybersecurity and digital equity remain top issues for K-12 schools.
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Some students at a Minnesota school district received lewd emails recently, likely as a result of student email addresses being inadvertently, temporarily readable to anyone who had access to the Speak UP platform.
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The education IT security company ManagedMethods hosted a webinar Thursday to discuss ways that schools can make use of monitoring tools to flag and investigate school safety and student mental health issues.
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A glass manufacturing business in Wisconsin issued grants to Burlington Area School District to teach modules designed by Project Lead the Way about computer science, engineering and other subjects.
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Seeing how students responded to drone pilot competitions at her school, a San Antonio-area teacher is gathering support to persuade the University Interscholastic League to make it an official state academic program.
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A California-based company temporarily shut down its education platform on Wednesday after discovering an intruder had generated messages containing an inappropriate image and sent them from parent accounts to staff.
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With ransomware attacks against school districts becoming more aggressive amid the influx of digital tools being used in the classroom, digital identity management software could help save schools millions in payouts.
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Since its launch in January, SFUSD's EMPower payroll system has led to hundreds of issues with employee paychecks. The district may now need a management consulting firm to clear the backlog of problems and stabilize the system.
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A Tennessee school district's 12 new digital fabrication labs, equipped with laser cutters, 3D printers, vinyl cutters and other electronics, include the first nine in the state to be integrated into elementary schools.
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Campus-wide A/C outages hit 24 schools in Clark County School District the first week of school, and a column in the Las Vegas Review-Journal argues that a maintenance plan, not more funding bills, is the answer.
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Given the frequency of school shootings in the U.S., the number of companies and technologies offering security to K-12 districts is multiplying, offering different approaches to the same goal of saving lives.
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The New York state comptroller found Union Springs Central School District did not implement protections for sensitive data on mobile devices or properly restrict email access to read-only for non-district devices.
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Owensboro Innovation Middle School, or iMiddle as it's called locally in Kentucky, used a $41,445 grant to purchase an inflatable, portable planetarium made by NASA for the purposes of interactive lessons.
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