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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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A shift to learning by mastery can really go far with policy support at the state level.
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Pennsylvania universities and school districts are working together on maker spaces that promote project-based learning.
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Students met with Gov. Maggie Hassan after designing an application to manage after-school dismissals.
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Lawmakers directed the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to sever ties with the test developer, which provided 17 other states with exams aligned with the Common Core.
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The school plans to use the televisions as part of an initiative to bring more technology into the classroom, allowing teachers to present interactive lessons.
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An Illinois city wants to become a high-tech business area.
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Schools and the community dissect the troubling student fights that are gaining notoriety online.
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The 84th Legislature started with ambitious plans for reforming public education. Now it's make-or-break time for many of the major initiatives still alive. Here's a roundup of where things stand.
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A new study, covering more than 130,000 students across England, looks at how cellphone policies have changed since 2001.
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As tech companies try to find ways to create a more diverse workforce, they're looking at education as a way to help increase the pipeline supply of women and minorities graduating in the STEM fields.
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Google said in a written statement that it works to make the app's videos "as family-friendly as possible" and takes feedback very seriously, removing inappropriate videos flagged by users.
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Four overlapping and contrasting bills have passed either the House or Senate, but no comprehensive plan has been approved -- so schools don’t know whether they’ll tweak the existing system next year or have to start over again.
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The iCivics website uses games, prepared lesson plans for teachers and interactive digital lessons to teach students about the democratic process.
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State education leaders and officials from test provider Pearson have given little new information about the cyber-attack that disrupted the online testing system.
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The images of the laboratory came to Chattanooga via the city's "gig network," or gigabit-per-second Internet provided by EPB, the city's power distributor.
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The robot, named Nao, helps autistic children to interpret daily information regarding facial and hand expressions.
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Because of the success at drawing out reluctant speech learners, the Fort Worth school board last month approved the purchase of more than 130 additional iPads.
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