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From food insecurity to school violence to early-onset mental health conditions, K-12 students face many challenges inside and outside the classroom that can hinder their academic success. Schools increasingly provide services to help children with these challenges, and government leaders have started funding these services through legislation.
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Indiana State University's rapidly growing cybersecurity program has announced the establishing of three partnerships that will make students even more marketable in a field burgeoning with jobs.
America's public schools often lack the adequate security to protect their students' most sensitive data from being linked on the web.
Nearly two-thirds of parents of Las Cruces Public Schools children want youth in a hybrid learning model when the district is eligible to do so. However, only half of employees want the same.
The Pittsburgh Learning Collaborative, a coalition of more than 70 groups and individuals, seeks transparency in plans for a return to in-person instruction so the community can help it work toward specific goals.
In a survey conducted this summer by the N.H. Department of Education, 32 percent of parents in Keene, H.H., and several other municipalities, said technical issues disrupt their child's remote instruction at times.
Citing an achievement gap for some New York students amid school shutdowns, job loss and fatalities due to COVID-19, city officials have outlined a plan to build upon the technology already used in remote learning.
Four Manatee County high school students who designed a new tool to calculate dosage for medicines have won the 16th Congressional District App Challenge, U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan announced on Monday.
Dual language has gained popularity nationwide, with a goal for students to speak, read and write both languages at the bilingual level, no matter their native tongue, but the pandemic is creating new challenges.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt schools, doing so by making it far more difficult for teachers and other educators to effectively assess students’ academic progress in traditional ways.
A Nobel Prize winner and former University of Colorado Boulder professor won a prestigious education research award and is dedicating $3 million of prize money to the campus' PhET Interactive Simulations Project.
Mercyhurst University will partner with one of the nation's Big Four accounting firms to pilot a first-of-its-kind program to prepare students with autism for high-paying cybersecurity jobs.
It will provide startups with offices, lab space and an opportunity to interact with WSU faculty, a mentor network of established entrepreneurs and nearly three dozen consultants, investor groups and service providers.
The modeling technology, which can generate simulations in minutes opposed to days, promises to help scientists and government understand how pollutants are transported through canals into the bay.
Parents and advocacy groups filed a lawsuit Monday against the state of California stating that it failed to meet a "constitutional obligation" to ensure equality in remote education during the coronavirus pandemic.
The device, dubbed GatorByte, incorporates GPS and cellular communication to make tracking and recovering the unit possible, with data sent to the cloud in real time using a cellular signal.
Officials have been tight-lipped about what happened, saying an investigation is ongoing and they are working closely with state and federal law enforcement and the Maryland Emergency Management Agency to investigate.
The Iowa Department of Education has approved a second virtual waiver for the Cedar Rapids Community School District, allowing virtual learning to continue in the district beyond Thanksgiving break through Dec. 11.
Education in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math — will get a major boost from the $500,000 grant recently received by the Grand Forks, N.D., School District from the U.S. Department of Defense.
Pittsburgh Public Schools expects to receive sometime this week the last 200 of the more than 23,000 devices it needed to ensure that all students and teachers have a district-issued laptop or iPad.
The president-elect should look to the ranks of community-college leaders for filling this critical Cabinet post. Community colleges occupy a strategic position that gives them a unique perspective on education at all levels.
