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The days of waking up to snowfall and heading back to sleep because school is canceled may be a thing of the past, as students in Michigan and across the rest of the country acclimate to online education.
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The dashboard is the result of a collaborative effort between a professor at Brown University, a private software company called Qualtrics, and school officials from districts across the country.
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Since COVID-19 first shut down in-person learning, Seattle schools have distributed devices and Internet for thousands of students, but district officials haven’t been able to share related data with certainty.
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The school district in Burlington, Iowa, has expanded its COVID-19 data sharing dashboard, reconfiguring it to more closely resemble a previous version before the state issued data sharing guidance.
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is seeking information from state education agencies about how they are working to protect the privacy of both K-12 and college students amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Dickinson College will host a panel of experts to discuss environmental racism and justice in Pennsylvania, which has been deeply impacted by fracking, coal mining and other producers of greenhouse gas.
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Armed with a recent $1 million federal grant, Chaminade University in Hawaii can now offer scholarships for any students who are planning to select a major in data science, bolstering the discipline.
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Ashland Public Library is now offering a Design, Create, Play Kit to children. The new kit is part of an initiative to engage students in building Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) skills.
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As a weird fall of distance learning unfolds, new data shows a majority of schoolchildren in Southern California’s metro areas are using computers issued by school districts — not devices belonging to their families.
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The Federal Aviation Administration is getting involved in workforce development at the college level for drone use, choosing Northwestern Michigan College for its Unmanned Aircraft Systems-Collegiate Training Program.
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Tens of thousands of students in Central New York — and millions across the state and nation — had to pivot quickly in the spring from in-school instruction to distance learning when COVID-19 forced schools to close.
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Some school districts have had to push back reopening dates or cancel classes as a result of the cyberattacks against their systems.
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Immigrant students often have work commitments outside class, and they may need additional language support. Giving them equal access to technology during remote learning might not be enough.
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At UT-Rio Grande Valley, administrators spent a tense summer preparing for the fall semester while local coronavirus rates spiked, the area spiraled into further economic depression and debate raged across the nation about how to safely send college students back to school.
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A different sort of virus — ransomware — has taken down the computer system at the Newhall School District, forcing a shutdown of distance learning for some 6,000 elementary school students, officials said.
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The Orangeburg County, S.C., School District has developed a mobile application that can link its students and their families with telehealth services, doing so by partnering with local facilities and nonprofit groups.
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The remote learning models adopted by many Michigan school districts this year are creating challenges for parents, particularly if they are single parents with jobs that don’t allow them to work from home.
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Two students at Algonquin Regional High School in Northboro, Mass., have created a free online educational assistance tool called Aptitutor, which is essentially an online tutoring service they built at the end of May.
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