Preparing K-12 and higher education IT leaders for the exponential era
K-12 Education News
-
Hiring a workforce development coordinator with deep industry knowledge and connections, and making it easier for CTE instructors to get licensed, helped an Arizona district grow its network of business partnerships. -
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.
More Stories
-
Schools in Middletown, Ohio, emphasize the science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics or STEAM curricula, and district officials were recently awarded with a grant from the Middletown Community Foundation.
-
The Hudson County, N.J., Schools of Technology are being awarded a $100,000 grant by the state Department of Education to create a pre-apprenticeship program focused on design and fabrication.
-
A new campus will feature a sensory garden for special needs students and play areas, and it is near the Smithfield TEXRail station along the route from Fort Worth to Terminal B at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.
-
NextLight, the municipal broadband service for Longmont, Colo., offers a community-driven program that puts low-income families with school-age children on a path to high-speed Internet for no charge.
-
Saturday’s competition in Ebensburg, Pa., will include a total of 60 different technology-related categories across the high school and middle school divisions, including a wide range of topics.
-
The project has won over officials who’ve provided information and guidance and helped win it a state championship in the FIRST LEGO League robotics competition, which encourages STEM-based experiences for students.
-
Collins Aerospace and the Discovery Center Museum have forged a partnership to create an outreach program that will offer hands-on, interactive STEM activities to students in Rockford, Ill., schools.
-
The district is partnering with the Technology Access Foundation to boost outcomes for students of color, boost STEM education and improve culture at the Central District school, where turnover has been a problem.
-
Phasing in electric cars and trucks is a widely recognized benchmark in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but now Maine’s long, ambitious climate-change journey is turning to battery-powered school buses.
-
Robotics competitions are becoming part of Alabama’s attempts to help science, technology, engineering and math — or STEM — become a staple in student lives. There are more than 860 registered teams in the state.
-
The Butler County, Ohio, project saw 5th and 6th graders presenting a project that uses Legos for robotics to show how county officials could better handle trains that pass through the area’s downtown.
-
Wesley Lowman, 18, built a computer application from scratch that helps elementary students improve their math skills while playing a game, and now he will show it to lawmakers in Washington, D.C.
-
As Amazon enters the field with its new Ignite offerings, a recent Fordham Institute study has found significant shortcomings in the currently available teacher-created high school English materials online.
-
The Indiana Department of Education has distributed K-12 STEM Acceleration Grants to 24 school districts across the state, working to support science, technology, engineering and math programs.
-
Gov. Andrew Cuomo will announce plans Wednesday to establish in Syracuse the state’s first regional high school and worker training center that focuses on science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, or STEAM.
-
Norman Public Schools is just one of many districts nationwide that have embraced educational technology, a way of teaching and learning ideally enhanced through the use of classroom technology.
-
Monroe High School is beginning an expansive career technical education (CTE) drone program by using electric lenses to teach drone piloting as a response to their commitment to prepare students for in-demand jobs.
-
After completing the initial implementation phase of the AEGIS system, Lockport City School District has announced that it has begun using its controversial facial and object recognition surveillance for added security.
Education Events
June 5, 2025
June 11, 2025
September 29, 2025
September 2025
September 2025
October 2025
October 21, 2025
November 20, 2025
November 2025
December 4-5, 2025
Maryland K-12 AI Leadership Conference
December 2025
