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
-
Guidance from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is that paying ransomware demands is a mistake that doesn’t guarantee resolution, but districts in a bind have many variables to consider.
-
Preparing to speak Tuesday at the annual Harold Hotelling Memorial Lecture at Lawrence Tech, Michigan State University professor Keith Hampton says broadband connectivity across the U.S. is dramatically under-recorded.
-
A program shared between six community colleges and the Indiana University of Pennsylvania will focus on mentorship, certificate training, K-12 outreach, summer activities, course material and professional development.
-
The university has announced three initiatives — a cybersecurity scholarship program, a series of related events and resources, and a grant program for Atlanta-area nonprofits — aimed at building an IT workforce.
-
An Illinois school district is weighing a proposal from the not-for-profit Future Green Energy Consortium, which has more bargaining power than any individual school, to install solar panels on rooftops and campuses.
-
The public community college in California shut down its servers Sunday morning after detecting suspicious activity on its network, which it continues to investigate while slowly bringing the network back online.
-
Lockport City School District’s director of technology said the program, which should cost under $20,000, might help students recover from learning loss and give teachers insight into what they’re struggling with.
-
With 11 percent of devices distributed to students not being returned, Atlanta Public Schools approved one-time funds to replace them and plans to incorporate a replacement strategy into the annual budgeting process.
-
In the wake of news that hackers released a trove of personal identifying information stolen from Los Angeles Unified School District, victims are advised to call the district's hotline and set up credit monitoring.
-
Research at Duke, North Carolina State and UNC have made the state a hot spot for innovations that could yield advances in finance, chemistry, artificial intelligence, logistics, cybersecurity and other fields.
-
The bulk of money is going to build out spaces at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, including robotics-related research and teaching spaces and to upgrade Nebraska Innovation Studio's robotics makerspace.
-
Experts in student privacy, with years of experience in the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Education, say that the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act is long overdue for a regulatory update.
-
With minority groups largely underrepresented in STEM fields, the University of Texas at Arlington aims to encourage more interest in subjects such as math and physics among those students.
-
The annual career-focused event, a partnership between the Macomb County Planning and Economic Development Department and the Macomb Intermediate School District, gives students a real-world look at high-tech careers.
-
The Madison School District is taking some of its high school classes online because of a shortage of teachers. Roughly 120 of the district's 2,400 teaching positions remain unfilled.
-
The new Future Finder Challenge aims to spur the development of new digital tools designed to help adult learners navigate new career paths as workplaces digitize and job requirements change.
-
As the U.S. confronts a tremendous skills gap and pushes back against workforce shortages, STEM education and building specialized skills training need to become even more widespread.
-
The university’s cybersecurity program has seen considerable growth since it started in 2007. Some 400 students are now enrolled and pursuing a career in a field that has had trouble attracting enough talent.
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
