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The nonprofit believes preparing students for a digital future is less about expanding access to devices than about ensuring technology use is grounded in purpose, understanding and meaningful outcomes. -
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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AugmentED, the latest "moonshot" program from the nonprofit Advanced Education Research and Development Fund, will focus on how new tools and approaches to teaching with artificial intelligence can transform education.
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North Carolina's largest school district will soon deploy the RAVE panic button app, which can give a user's location to 911, notify school staff and make critical information available to first responders.
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Artificial intelligence can help grant applicants identify which funds best match a project, generate drafts of persuasive text, ensure necessary criteria are met, and aggregate data to follow up with funders.
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The new Generative AI for Education Hub at Stanford University will conduct and collect research on AI tools for schools. The hope is to give K-12 leaders easier access to evidence about what works — and what doesn’t.
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The lack of a federal budget has put several STEM programs on ice, reducing the number of hands-on experiences with technology available to students from low-income schools.
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A bill making its way through the Texas Legislature would require every school district to have a policy requiring students to keep cellphones in storage lockers throughout the school day.
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Gov. Greg Abbott’s emergency priority list includes “life-changing career training" high school programs, with the goal of getting 60 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds to obtain a postsecondary degree or credential by 2030.
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News literacy lessons, which teach students to use critical thinking in conjunction with the Internet to separate fact from fiction, are essential to prepare students to navigate the digital information ecosystem.
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New York City Public Schools have confirmed that at least four of their schools were affected by the breach, and they're working with PowerSchool to identify and directly notify students whose data was compromised.
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A report issued this week by the Consortium for School Networking looks at the hurdles to innovation in K-12 education, as well as the trends and technology school leaders can use to improve teaching and learning.
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A carefully planned overhaul of bus fleets for St. Louis-area school districts is in limbo after an executive order from President Donald Trump paused previously allocated spending on clean energy initiatives.
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To expand computer science education at Adams 12 Five Star Schools in Colorado, a former IT coordinator convened a group of teachers to help overhaul course offerings and standardize a curriculum with broad appeal.
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The final session of this year's Future of Education Technology Conference offered a glimpse at how AI platforms and tools might revolutionize education accessibility for students and work efficiency for teachers.
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The system incorporates Florida’s academic standards, course work and individual student data to assist teachers and personalize learning. It uses information on the Internet but is not accessible to the public.
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The education software company PowerSchool is working with the credit-monitoring agency Experian to provide data breach victims with two years of identity protection and credit-monitoring services.
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The program is geared toward students in grades 7-12 and will provide them with hands-on experience with various AI tools to help them with their education, according to the state.
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A new rubric from the nonprofit Opportunity Labs provides nine principles and a step-by-step system to evaluate the safety and potential usefulness of generative artificial intelligence-based tools for education.
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East Baton Rouge Public Schools is testing AI-powered screeners at four high schools, along with other policy changes, after a student smuggled a firearm past manned metal detectors.
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