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The move reflects a broader push by the education platform Newsela to help educators turn fragmented student data into actionable intelligence without adding new systems or complexity. -
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.
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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.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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With a TK-12 virtual schooling program created to satisfy demand, Newport-Mesa Unified School District gives parents the flexibility to keep students home while staying connected to the district.
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With its account apparently hacked, the Wyoming Department of Education recently shared a survey on Twitter about school choice which the state school boards association president called "propaganda."
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Focused on autonomous vehicle research, the University of Maine's Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction Lab created a ride-hailing app that assists older adults and visually impaired passengers.
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Valuable student data, many digital systems and devices frequently shuttled between homes and schools make K-12 districts vulnerable to cyber attack. But there are plenty of ways districts can armor up.
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A California school district has updated its policy aimed at reducing energy and water consumption, ensuring new machinery is zero-emissions, reducing vehicle emissions and establishing a climate crisis task force.
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After discovering last month that ransomware had infiltrated its information systems, a private Christian university in Washington is still investigating the incident and adding new layers of security.
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According to LearnPlatform's annual report and top-40 list of digital tools used in K-12 classrooms, ed tech use held steady from the last school year, with Google Suite and learner-focused tools remaining dominant.
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A Kentucky school district is debating the pandemic-era policy of livestreaming public meetings and showing them on TV, and whether that convenience for the public outweighs technological and equipment challenges.
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A Pennsylvania school district is installing phones with emergency buttons that call 911 and send appropriate responders automatically, and requiring students to keep personal electronic devices in their lockers.
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The NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars program challenged community college students to design a mission to the moon or Mars, including cost calculation, engineering work and studying the surface.
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The university’s Media and Innovation Lab worked with digital mental health company Neolth on a platform that assesses students, then customizes curricula and suggests resources according to their mental health needs.
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As part of a consortium of research facilities overseen by the U.S. Department of Energy, a new Regional Test Center will study technologies that can increase electrical generation from photovoltaic systems.
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Through a partnership with local law enforcement and BusPatrol, Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Maryland will outfit its buses with technology designed to discourage dangerous driving around bus stops.
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For fiscal year 2021, UC San Diego and San Diego State University used $1.64 billion in research funding to integrate different sources of energy into power grids, to improve lab tech on research vessels and to study COVID-19.
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The U.S. Department of Education is wiping out debt for 208,000 former students of the for-profit ITT Technical Institute, which shut down in 2016 after misleading about job placement, accreditation and other matters.
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An affiliate of the national nonprofit TECH CORPS, the Student WEB CORPS program enlisted technology professionals to teach Ohio high schoolers about web development, project management and employability skills.
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Recognized at the AWS IMAGINE 2022 event in Seattle earlier this month, the AWS Education Champions’ first cohort includes infrastructure and IT managers, cloud engineers, program directors and administrators.
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A survey from the Texas-based tech company SecureLink shows that educational institutions are struggling to manage or monitor third-party technology vendors that have access to student data.
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