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As the new five-year funding cycle for E-rate begins, experts at the Future of Education Technology Conference in Orlando urged districts to plan early, document thoroughly and stay vigilant on compliance. -
Now headed to the state Senate for consideration, House Bill 4141 would require all of Michigan's public and charter schools to adopt policies forbidding students from using cellphones during instructional time.
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With future workforce skills increasingly uncertain and Silicon Valley's own entrepreneurs sending their kids to schools with no screens, perhaps Taoism has something to teach about cultivating a life of the mind today.
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Teachers and students at a Catholic high school and a pre-K through 8th public school are learning to collaborate through FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a nonprofit robotics program.
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Two months after a cyber incident may have exposed their personal data, thousands of educators took up an offer from the Missouri Public School Retirement System for two years of free credit-monitoring services.
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Live panels of experts from private, public and nonprofit sectors, organized by the nonprofit Connected Nation, convened this week to discuss what the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act means for the digital divide.
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Education policy advocates say the bill provides crucial funding for K-12 Internet access necessary for online learning, which continues to be popular following last year's COVID-19 school closures.
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Initially launched with nonprofits, government agencies and schools who helped identify people who needed it, the program is being offered more widely to citizens in need of Internet or devices.
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The online cultural exchange platform Empatico connects classrooms in 160 countries for interactive lessons focused on social-emotional learning and building cooperation, cultural inclusion and empathy.
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The Missouri State Library system in Boone or Callaway counties is administering the Excel Adult High School program, an accredited online high school through which adults 18 and up can earn a diploma.
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The Michigan district will continue virtual instruction while surging COVID cases affect both students and staff, with buses shuttling students from the high school to the Lenawee Intermediate School District Tech Center.
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Slated to open in 2024, six academies will focus on information technology and cybersecurity, medicine, economics, professional and public service, art and engineering, and communications and design.
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Given widening gaps in K-12 student learning amid an influx of federal money for schools, reliable two-way communications between parents and teachers could help students forge relationships and stay engaged.
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A report from EdWeek Research Center and ManagedMethods finds many K-12 districts lack adequate cloud security protocols, despite their move to cloud applications for data storage purposes and a rise in cyber attacks.
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District administrators at Norman Public Schools are unsure what to make of fallen test scores that are still above state average, and up from 2019 at several schools that hit 95 percent participation.
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Seeing a precipitous decline in state proficiency exam scores, Illinois schools are looking to tutoring, teacher development, after-school programs and extra social-emotional support for students dealing with trauma.
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The HOPE Task Force at Alamogordo Public Schools, N.M., is participating in a federal "Test to Stay" pilot program for students in close proximity to COVID, testing them every other day instead of sending them home.
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The three largest districts in Stanislaus County are testing new grading policies that take life circumstances into account, allow for grade recovery and focus on subject mastery, rather than attendance or extra credit.
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To get the most out of student performance metrics and recover from learning loss that occurred over the past year, education officials are rethinking data management with new positions and data standards.
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The California-based educational software developer bought Kickboard, whose technology tracks and measures classroom behavior of students, after projecting an annual sales increase of more than 25 percent in 2021.
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The ed-tech company Twin Science and Robotics has set out to create a new “metaverse” for online STEM education, combining a digital learning platform with hands-on projects to expand access to STEM education worldwide.
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