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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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Project Tomorrow's recent Speak Up research, which focused on use of classroom technology and involved 50,000 respondents, found it's more often used to support adult management goals than student skill-building.
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The Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether Evolv Technologies, which has sold security scanners to Atlanta-area school districts, exaggerated in marketing materials what its products can do.
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A matter of weeks after an unspecified cybersecurity incident impacted the email network of Clark County School District in Washington, some parents received emails with their children's photos and private information.
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Startup companies looking to make inroads in the U.S. education market are eligible for $100,000 and free training under the new AWS Education Accelerator initiative. The application deadline is Nov. 17.
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Verizon has reached out to Houston Independent School District to extend the terms of the Digital Promise program by which students and teachers get free devices and data plans, but the district has not responded.
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A new program from the Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents is challenging student teams in four states to work with schools in Puerto Rico on solutions to real-world problems.
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Some professors believe math and computer-science courses will evolve alongside new artificial-intelligence tools, allowing students to focus on higher-level skills while chatbots do the more tedious parts.
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Allen Park Public Schools in Michigan shut down portions of its network and canceled classes Monday after discovering a cybersecurity threat. The district is working with a third party to ascertain if data was compromised.
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The EdSight dashboard was announced after the start of the 2023-2024 academic year and is regularly updated with new information, graphs and charts to make school spending, high school graduation and suspension rates, and other metrics transparent to the public.
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Staff in the business office of the Marion Independent School District are stepping out of their comfort zone and using their expertise to inform educators and residents about school finance.
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In her first year of teaching at Arlington Preparatory Academy in Baton Rouge, Megan Hall won District Teacher of the Year. A year prior, she was working at a Home Depot in the same city.
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As educators learn how to navigate AI, the question remains how it will be used in the classroom, and one superintendent in Illinois says that answers must come from those at the local level.
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The nonprofit Black Girls Do Engineer hopes to provide its member students with STEM-related access, awareness and advocacy. The group hopes to connect 2 million students to the STEM field by 2050.
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A ballot question would authorize a capital projects levy to provide $5.3 million annually over 10 years to fund digital learning software, classroom tech, enhanced online security infrastructure and IT staff.
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Rather than letting learners cope with the lifelong struggles associated with dyslexia, one technology company is using an artificial intelligence-enabled tool that corrects problems and sets them on a course toward proficiency.
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The Montana Office of Public Instruction is adopting DreamBox digital learning tools statewide following Discovery Education's recent acquisition of the ed-tech company DreamBox, an announcement said.
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Justices with the state's highest court heard oral arguments in a civil case over whether the law requires township zoning officials to seek a warrant before flying a drone over a resident's property.
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The COVID pandemic seemed to worsen teens’ and adolescents’ mental health, according to several recent studies, but new research shows that telehealth may give many more kids access to support.
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