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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Department of Education awarded nearly $1.2 million in competitive matching grants to 32 tech centers and two school districts in the state, for equipment to train students for occupations that are in high demand.
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Armed with this approach, Hudson Valley Community College — which is located in Troy, N.Y. — has done a really good job this year keeping its campus safe amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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Richmond County, Ga., Associate Superintendent Malinda Cobb reported during a school board meeting Tuesday that failing marks among virtual students are nearly double that of in-person learning students.
