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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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Traverse City West and Central high schools recently began construction on new spaces for academic and co-curricular needs tied to science, technology, engineering, and math, plus robotics and manufacturing.
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The Center on Reinventing Public Education found just two states have provided official guidance to schools about artificial intelligence so far, and states that delay or decline doing this might face more problems.
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A new framework for improving K-12 cybersecurity, based on standards from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, stands on five pillars: identify, protect, detect, respond and recover.
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The nonprofit Code.org’s new state-by-state analysis of computer science education has good news and bad news: 2023 saw major progress in making it a requirement, but enrollment is not sufficiently high or equitable.
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Baltimore police arrested suspects in a shooting outside Carver Vocational Technical High School in Baltimore with help from video surveillance footage. ShotSpotter initially alerted police to eight firearm discharges.
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The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) asks tech companies developing artificial intelligence tools for education to commit to equity and inclusion, transparency, privacy, and working with the educators.
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Regulations around generative AI are rapidly evolving. This list will keep you up to date on what governments are doing to increase employee productivity and improve constituent services while minimizing risk.
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Clark County is the fifth largest school district in the country, and hackers claim to still have access to its network as they seek a monetary payout in exchange for deleting stolen student data.
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The Federal Communications Commission recently extended E-Rate funding to cover WiFi on school buses, but some Republicans say this will raise fees on telecommunications providers and not improve learning outcomes.
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Vernier Science Education officials say their new program could accelerate STEM education past pre-pandemic levels and eventually change or at least improve the way those subjects are taught.
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The Cullman County Board of Education in Alabama approved a five-year contract with Spot.ai to integrate with the district's roughly 800 security cameras so administrators can access them from a centralized hub.
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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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