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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.
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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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Given the rise of automation and its impacts on the current global workforce, how should schools prepare students for a future where change will be the new normal?
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Proposed legislation would place a one-year moratorium on using the technology and allow for more time to study a type of biometric software that is considered new and unproven, especially in schools.
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The parents of students attending Ponte Vedra school district have pointed to a report from California about children developing cancer at a school with a telecommunications tower on its property.
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A recent survey by Junior Achievement found that 9 percent of girls aged 13 to 17 are interested in a career in science, tech, engineering or math, down from 11 percent according to a similar survey in 2018.
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SponsoredK-12 schools today are already solving density and throughput challenges with Wi-Fi 6.
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The Vancouver school board on Tuesday approved a four-year lease with a California-based company to buy 8,000 Chromebooks for high school campuses, as well as at Vancouver iTech Preparatory School and Vancouver School of Arts and Academics.
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The College Board is adding a new 'adversity score' to the SAT to take students' socioeconomic backgrounds into account. Will the move correct long-standing disparities in the college entrance exam?
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Parents of Davidson County students told school officials they weren’t able to help their children with online math assignments, so now middle school students leave tech in the classroom and come home with textbooks.
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Launched in 2014, the $147 million initiative gave every student from first to 12th-grade access to a laptop. But the investment in tech hasn’t changed the schools bottom ranking on passing rates for standardized tests.
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SponsoredOrange County Public Schools, the 9th largest school district in the country, can deploy an entire new school network in just four hours with cloud-managed IT.
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Schools in Wenatchee would use the funds over a six-year period to upgrade a broad range of tech needs, including system-wide infrastructure, personnel to keep the equipment running and training for teachers.
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A consultant has recommended the East Baton Rouge Parish school system ditch a number of manual and paper systems and replace them with software to reduce overhead expenses in the face of dwindling enrollment.
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The Carlisle School District recognizes that unmanned aerial devices could be a useful learning tool, but first the policies on their use need to catch up with the rapidly evolving technology.
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Mentoring is proven to have a positive impact on students’ efficacy, confidence and decision-making skills and to enhance their career aspirations.
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School children in Alachua County, Fla., are taking lessons in code breaking to improve their literacy. The students play visual games to solve language codes and are gaining a crash course in cybersecurity as well.
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Decatur will add courses for students to study computer science, technology, math and engineering. The goal will be to graduate more students who are ready to work in the growing high-tech market in the region.
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With schools cutting back on musical education, online courses offer young students a viable option to learn how to play, sing or create music. But more must be done to give underprivileged students the same opportunity.
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Despite firewalls, browser history monitoring and other measures, some young students have been exposed to adult content while using iPad tablets in their schools, leading some parents to object.
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