Preparing K-12 and higher education IT leaders for the exponential era
Education News
-
The American Medical Association awarded $12 million across 11 institutions to implement artificial intelligence-powered feedback for students on tasks like clinical reasoning and interactions with patients. -
A recent promotion through the state-funded CalKIDS initiative highlights how the state of California is using education savings accounts to address technology access for students.
-
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international policy research group, found that when students depend on AI, the mental processes that turn answers into understanding decline.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
More Stories
-
A social media post by "Karakurt" threatens to release personal student information. The Illinois district has warned employees that their information may have been compromised, although it said nothing about students.
-
The DCPS Digital Equity Act of 2022 requires the school district to create a student technology plan to close the digital divide locally and modernize school IT protocols, with the help of feedback from parents and educators.
-
At a webinar on Tuesday featured in the Aurora Institute Symposium, the Colorado Board of Education's Office of Blended Learning explained a two-year plan to gather research on hybrid learning to inform state policy.
-
With emerging, data-driven approaches to instruction and mounting evidence of learning loss during the pandemic, K-12 schools should question the wisdom of putting all students through the same classes at the same pace.
-
Cybersecurity services company Steel Root is relaunching its $10,000 scholarship to benefit a high school junior in Massachusetts looking to pursue higher education in the field of cybersecurity.
-
Montgomery County Community College will use a federal grant to boost certificate completion rates, transfer rates to four-year institutions, and student interest in employment in science, technology and defense.
-
Cleveland Metropolitan School District Principal Jim Greene believes Gaggle has saved student lives, monitoring indications of problems from inappropriate social media use to bullying, self-harm, violence or drugs.
-
The funding will go to 19 magnet schools' equity efforts, as well as the creation of four regional “equity assistance centers” that provide public schools with technical assistance and guidance on nondiscrimination.
-
The National Assessment of Educational Progress this year recorded the largest-ever declines in mathematics, with many school officials blaming learning loss on remote instruction and the upheaval of the pandemic.
-
A $110,000 STEM grant from the Massachusetts Life Science Center will allow Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School to put virtual dissection technology in its science labs for dual-enrolled students.
-
School districts across North Texas are asking voters in November to approve bond packages to pay for surveillance cameras, weapon detection systems, modern door locks, shatter-resistant window film and other measures.
-
New certificate programs at the college will train students for jobs in aerospace and manufacturing, industries in which North Carolina is likely to see increasing demand for skilled workers.
-
The university and its dining services partner are preparing to deploy automated food delivery vehicles from the company Kiwibot, which will be mapping the campus to aid with future deliveries.
-
State auditors found 16 areas of concern at Western Connecticut State University, including that it did not sanitize electronic storage devices in a timely manner nor adequately document their disposal.
-
A public research university in Virginia is preparing a facility in Virginia Beach Town Center to accommodate a wind-energy lab and undergraduate data science programs in cybersecurity and marine engineering.
-
A webinar this week hosted by Lightspeed Systems featured experts in cybersecurity and cloud operations who laid out the current climate of K-12 cyber crime and what schools can do to thwart would-be threat actors.
-
Pending state legislation includes bills for an ed-tech grant program, a commission on tech-enabled teaching and learning, student privacy protections, and the creation of a student technology plan.
-
Indiana’s Office of Technology, Purdue University and Indiana University are teaming up to offer free cybersecurity assessments to interested local governments in an effort to improve cyber postures statewide.
Education Events
June 5, 2025
June 11, 2025
September 29, 2025
September 2025
September 2025
October 2025
October 21, 2025
November 20, 2025
November 2025
December 4-5, 2025
Maryland K-12 AI Leadership Conference
December 2025
