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Educators moved quickly in the pandemic era to scale access to virtual learning — but governance, accountability and data systems have not kept pace. A patchwork of models and standards complicates solutions. -
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.
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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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After proposed legislation failed to pass a senate committee, an executive order made Oregon the latest state to restrict student use of cellphones during the school day, requiring districts to write their own policies.
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To comply with the state's Focus Act, school board members at a district in northern Alabama approved a policy outlining what the instructional day is, what's not allowed and what the exceptions are.
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At ISTELive 25 on Monday, technology leaders from a private boys’ school in New York City offered suggestions for engaging teachers to demystify AI and decide how to use it, including grade-by-grade ideas for K-8.
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A new state law, passed with near unanimous support last week from state legislators, has exemptions for special circumstances and doesn’t cover non-instructional times of the school day.
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In a Q&A before the International Society for Education Technology conference this week, Richard Culatta said the next phase of AI education may involve teaching "life skills" students will need in order to thrive.
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Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence are in the process of revolutionizing education. Whether they do so for the better or worse will depend on educators.
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Job applicants have already started using AI to get ahead, so K-12 districts would do well to start experimenting with what the technology can do to attract and process applications — and what it can't.
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Suburban school districts on the outskirts of Chicago are staffing technology committees, implementing guidelines, training teachers and planning pilot programs to embrace AI as a necessity in the coming school year.
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Fresno Unified School District had only 40 students enrolled in its online eLearn Academy before 2020. Now, its rebranded Farber School of Online Learning has become one of the largest online programs in California.
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The high court preserved the Universal Service Fund, which finds its beginnings in the 1934 Communications Act. It includes E-rate, and is intended to ensure effective telecommunications across America.
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By putting surveillance cameras on more school buses, East Baton Rouge Parish public schools hope that video evidence will diffuse arguments around student behavior or poor driving and result in fewer insurance claims.
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Organizers for CyberPatriot camps like those hosted by Calhoun Community College say they've seen a trend of rising interest among middle and high schoolers in cybersecurity and IT-related fields.
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In addition to the ban on student phone use — which is part of a legislative trend that is sweeping states across the country — Kentucky also ushered in limits on teacher-student communications.
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More Hamilton County youth will be able to earn thousands beginning late this summer through a paid internship program, now backed with an additional quarter-million dollars in state funding.
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A North Carolina school district is planning updated curricula, staff trainings and community engagement sessions with students, teachers and parents to iron out the specifics of its AI policies by this fall.
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Legislation signed by Gov. Greg Abbott last week leaves it up to individual school districts to establish standards for storing cell phones during class and set discipline procedures for those who break the rules.
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In response to problems with inappropriate contact, a new law in Kentucky requires school districts to designate a traceable communications tool as the exclusive means by which employees may reach out to students.
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A school board resolution acknowledges that technology plays an essential role in modern education but says it has to be “balanced with proven traditional methods to best support student achievement and well-being.”
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