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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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Data science would allow Washington school districts to see how certain student behaviors correlate with violence and suggest intervention possibilities.
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Southern Illinois University Carbondale has teamed up with tech mogul Mitch Kapor to place 70 underprivileged high school students in an all-expense paid STEM camp this coming summer.
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Students and trustees question the effectiveness of the Billings School District Internet filter, with some calling it an “obstruction to education.”
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Police and Decatur School District officials have turned their eyes toward social media platforms to watch for the warning signs of credible threats to students.
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A study found that nearly half of all millennials are unable to name even one of the more than 42,000 camps and ghettos in existence during the Holocaust.
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As more evidence shows the phones to be an educational distraction, schools in Cleburne, Texas, are telling students they must turn them off.
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Players of Red Dead Redemption 2 use a detailed topographic map to navigate the landscape.
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State auditors found the university lacked adequate security controls for sensitive information, including 301,000 unique social security numbers.
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Practicing or assessing sign language is hard because you can’t read or write it. But a new AI-driven computer game may overcome that learning challenge for sign language students.
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Currently, students can bring their phones on to campus, just not use them. Now, the school board is looking at a complete ban, but not everyone is on board with the proposed policy change.
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Indian Prairie School District 204, serving more than 28,000 students, has Chromebooks and smart boards, but wonders where to go next with education technology that will have a lasting impact.
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The Scranton School District has come under fire for weak controls of its IT inventory, and for poor records that have increased the risk for “loss, theft and misuse.”
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Lockport wants to invest $1.4 million in a camera security system that uses facial recognition technology, but privacy concerns have held up the project.
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Breaking with tradition, the Lakota schools in Butler County will allow pupils to keep the laptops round the clock rather than turn them in at the end of the day.
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The recent Public Domain Day celebrated a raft of new creative works whose copyrights have expired, making them freely available to all. And educators should take note.
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The state’s superintendent backs plans for a one-time salary incentive for non-certified math teachers. Last year, only 37 percent of students tested proficient in math.
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The satellite, which took 7th graders three years to complete, will test how certain bacteria survives in extreme conditions.
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The school, located in Farmington, opened in October, serves students between the ages of 7 and 18 and offers classes on a range of coding programs and languages.
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