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Not every ed-tech tool has to be a bespoke platform or mobile app. A fourth-grade teacher at the Future of Education Technology Conference this week presented a collection of useful or fun websites available for free. -
North East Independent School District, which is located in San Antonio, may soon be fighting a legal battle with the Texas Education Agency over its controversial cellphone policy.
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One of the key lessons from Florida Virtual School’s collaboration with the AI-enabled data platform Doowii was the importance of spending time with users to understand their needs and limits.
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Tour Your Future takes girls ages 11 to 17 into environments where people are working in science, tech and related fields so that world becomes more familiar.
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The libraries are being rebranded to better reflect their broader purposes — curiosity center or inquiry center, digital commons or learning commons.
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A report highlights the progress that schools have made with Internet access and how state leaders are making connectivity a priority.
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Homeschooling regulations vary from state to state. And loopholes in these regulations could excuse parents from actually reporting the results.
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Weeks of widespread school bus delays, which left thousands of students stranded for hours at stops and campuses in Florida, are now thought to be a product of the "perfect storm" of institutional factors.
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Although 87 percent of Iowa school districts meet the minimum goal of 100 kilobytes per second per student, only 2 percent meet the $3 per megabyte per second Internet access affordability target
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Traditional standardized tests hide student potential.
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The State Board of Education rejected a plan to scour schoolchildren's books for factual errors.
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The program, which officials say is the first of its kind in the state, aims to prepare middle and high school students for the 21st-century workforce.
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The state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted Tuesday to move forward with an assessment system that would combine elements of MCAS, PARCC, and other items specifically developed for Massachusetts.
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The Wi-Fi Internet access is expected to help students get work done on the buses, while simultaneously lessening their distraction of bus drivers.
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The Charter School of San Diego won for its ability to help students at risk of never receiving a high school diploma successfully graduate or transition back to a traditional public school.
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The state's Board of Education Friday aims to replace the current Common Core-based K-12 math and English language arts standards with a version the state schools superintendent says isn't based off the national standards blueprint.
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After an off-the-cuff remark about encouraging girls to play with Legos and barring boys for a short period, one Washington kindergarten teacher is facing some backlash.
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The students are designing a small, portable generator to help refugees that will be about the size of a Nalgene water bottle, costing less than $100 and weighing less than 1 pound.
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Most comments put on record were from teachers, professors and parents who are fed up with the state’s four-year attempt to install a more rigorous curriculum.
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One teacher complained that the lack of working computers robs students of practice time typing, and the tiny screens make it impossible to do many of the test tasks.
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The contest offers students the opportunity to showcase both creativity and programming abilities to a national audience and make contact with potential high-tech employers.
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