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At a recent webinar hosted by Fast Company and Texas A&M University, private-sector executives said colleges and universities must partner with tech companies and embrace AI to remain relevant to students. -
Faced with falling enrollment and a growing budget deficit, United Independent School District is expanding its early college program and preparing to offer a virtual high school program, open to any student in Texas.
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A recently unveiled policy from Ohio’s Department of Education and Workforce contains few specifics and no learning standards for AI. Lawmakers say they intend to revise it in the future.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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Seeing how students responded to drone pilot competitions at her school, a San Antonio-area teacher is gathering support to persuade the University Interscholastic League to make it an official state academic program.
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A California-based company temporarily shut down its education platform on Wednesday after discovering an intruder had generated messages containing an inappropriate image and sent them from parent accounts to staff.
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With ransomware attacks against school districts becoming more aggressive amid the influx of digital tools being used in the classroom, digital identity management software could help save schools millions in payouts.
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An ed-tech company's new platform aims to help college applicants with advice from writing coaches and former admissions staff, plus digital tools for virtual task management, communication and feedback.
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Since its launch in January, SFUSD's EMPower payroll system has led to hundreds of issues with employee paychecks. The district may now need a management consulting firm to clear the backlog of problems and stabilize the system.
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A Tennessee school district's 12 new digital fabrication labs, equipped with laser cutters, 3D printers, vinyl cutters and other electronics, include the first nine in the state to be integrated into elementary schools.
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Campus-wide A/C outages hit 24 schools in Clark County School District the first week of school, and a column in the Las Vegas Review-Journal argues that a maintenance plan, not more funding bills, is the answer.
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Given the frequency of school shootings in the U.S., the number of companies and technologies offering security to K-12 districts is multiplying, offering different approaches to the same goal of saving lives.
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A federal court in Ohio has ruled that universities may violate privacy rights by scanning students’ rooms during remote exams. The ruling could affect university policies around test proctoring for remote learners.
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Lauren Rhue, an assistant professor of information systems at the University of Maryland, says human intervention is necessary to mitigate bias in technologies from Amazon Rekognition, Face++ and Microsoft.
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Forensic investigators say a ransomware attack in June that shut down the college's website and network systems could have given intruders access to first and last names, Social Security numbers and other data.
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The New York state comptroller found Union Springs Central School District did not implement protections for sensitive data on mobile devices or properly restrict email access to read-only for non-district devices.
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Owensboro Innovation Middle School, or iMiddle as it's called locally in Kentucky, used a $41,445 grant to purchase an inflatable, portable planetarium made by NASA for the purposes of interactive lessons.
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The New York state comptroller has cited Batavia City School District after an audit found it did not properly track its IT equipment, revealing 229 staff computers and 62 tablets unaccounted for.
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While LAUSD is still investigating a cyber attack that crippled its network over Labor Day weekend, the FBI said criminal syndicates such as Vice Society are habitually targeting schools and hospitals.
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With the addition of SchoolInfo, the California-based Edlio adds a mobile app to its existing suite of tools, including a CMS platform, electronic and voice communications, and payment processing.
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Los Angeles Unified School District is unsure whether student academic records were accessed by hackers last weekend, though officials say they haven't seen evidence of Social Security numbers being accessed.
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Research universities affiliated with the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center will spend $5 million to expand its computing capacity, contributing to studies of ecosystem dynamics and climate change.
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