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North East Independent School District in Texas may soon be monitored by a conservator after a state investigation determined that district leaders did not create a bell-to-bell phone ban in compliance with state law. -
Given reporting delays from the South Carolina Department of Education, the state Senate's Education Oversight Committee will take over collecting, analyzing and reporting test results of voucher students.
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Researchers at Digital Promise position outcomes-based contracts (OBC) not as a guarantee of student proficiency, but as a method for making sure ed-tech tools are implemented and used properly.
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To help them comply with an executive barring students from using phones during the school day, at least two Portland high schools have asked caregivers for donations to offset the costs of lockable pouches.
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Two recent announcements by Instructure reflect a growing interest in industry partnerships and integrations to develop interoperable, purpose-built artificial intelligence tools for education.
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New funding distributed through the New York School Bus Incentive Program will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis to cover electric buses, charging infrastructure and fleet electrification planning.
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Lake Superior Academy, a preK-5 charter school in Michigan, filed a lawsuit in response to a nonstop high-pitched metallic whine from nearby cryptocurrency mining machines owned by out-of-state companies.
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New guidance and a national artificial intelligence action plan promote utilizing the technology in education. Some leaders, however, said resources levels must catch up for those strategies to be effective.
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Methuen Public School District and the city have filed court documents regarding control of and access to the district’s IT department and systems as a disagreement over merging city and school IT departments builds.
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A law intended to prevent inappropriate sexual communication has complicated the ability of coaches, band directors and school mentors to reach students, and gave no specifics on how parents can provide consent.
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University of Washington researchers developed a game that asks humans and AI to take turns solving simple puzzles. AI consistently fails, even when the user types in specific directions with hints on how to solve it.
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Launched by policy fellows at the Aspen Institute, the initiative aims to ensure ed-tech tools do not reinforce racial biases, offering a toolkit, a school procurement guide and a certification backed by Digital Promise.
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A school district in Maryland is among among hundreds of districts and state officials seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in compensatory damages for years of dealing with the harm caused by social media companies.
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A partnership between a recently established economic development organization and various credentialing and education programs in the region will promote cybersecurity, robotics, IT, STEM and other fields.
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Schools across the U.S. have had to reckon with cellphones, and next push, some education leaders say, could be for additional guidance or structure on how — or how long — devices are used in class.
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Spurred by legislation signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2023, schools in Palm Beach County will begin rolling out new safety cameras that will automatically issue tickets to vehicles exceeding the speed limit by 10mph.
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A two-week program at North Carolina Central University gives attendees a $1,000 stipend, field trips to local businesses, team bonding activities and a pitch competition to help with the students’ overall development.
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Purpose-built AI learning platforms that don’t give students the answer, as opposed to tools that allow for direct answer generation like ChatGPT, are the way to avoid making students utterly dependent upon AI.
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The 40,000-square-foot Helix AI and Medical Academy, which can house upwards of 600 students, will begin teaching K-5 students this fall how to utilize and prepare for AI in future job markets.
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On-time graduation rates at Greeley-Evans School District 6 have jumped from 77.1 percent in 2016 to 87.3 percent in 2024, coinciding with the launch of career pathway program that teachers say is engaging students.
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A week of STEM camps involved classes designed and taught by Innovation Center student designers and teachers, with projects that included building and coding robots and writing scripts for cybersecurity tasks.
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