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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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Working with ed-tech companies like Full Measure Education, universities are crowdsourcing photos and videos on social media to build virtual campus tours, supplementing information packets that cost thousands to mail.
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The nonprofit’s annual report on how to improve K-12 education in the U.S. includes recommendations to bridge the digital divide, promote education innovations, develop new assessments and recover from learning loss.
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By offering free home Internet service to low-income families, a Tennessee school district has nearly eliminated racial disparities in parental involvement and opened the door for virtual parent-teacher conferences.
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With visible signage and a 30-day warning period, the automated enforcement system from Redspeed International uses cameras and radar to monitor up to 350 cars simultaneously, supposedly accurate within 0.1 mph.
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The editorial board of the Fresno Bee weighs the pros and cons of schools forbidding students from using their phones during the day. A year after San Mateo High did this, 96 percent of its teachers support the policy.
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The online university will use a grant from the tech industry consortium Reboot Representation Tech Coalition to support more Black, Latina and Indigenous women to complete IT degree programs.
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Connecticut high school students were building drones last week in a summer workshop for the Career Pathways program, designed to give them experience, including internships or apprenticeships, before graduation.
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Officials at the University of Texas Permian Basin created a robot with a 360-degree camera that can act as a conduit through which remote students can tune in to lectures and interact with classmates.
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Using grants from Cook County and a state nonprofit, a suburban Chicago school district is installing solar arrays on its campuses so students can learn about power generation and the photovoltaic process.
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Major tech companies are working with the American Association of Community Colleges to strengthen AI programming in institutions across the country by offering funds to build labs and develop courses.
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A panel at the AWS IMAGINE conference in Seattle this week discussed the potential for data, given the right infrastructure, to optimize a school district's staff by matching teacher skills with student deficits.
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The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection will oversee the $45 million, three-year pilot program, choosing a variety of districts and contractors to test different technological and funding approaches.
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Newark has a new student service center through Gateway U, which is not itself an accredited college but gets online faculty, curriculum and other academic resources from the Southern New Hampshire University.
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More than 1,000 K-12 individual school buildings and districts in Ohio will receive funds to improve security, to be used for staffing more resource officers, buying new security cameras and other tech upgrades.
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A panel at the AWS IMAGINE education conference in Seattle this week said schools are already equipped with the tools needed to tackle digital equity if governments, administrators and educators can put them to use.
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The nonprofit Center for Data Innovation praises a partnership between the University of Florida and tech company NVIDIA as a model for other institutions to develop AI research and education.
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The STEPs4GROWTH program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, funded by the American Rescue Plan, will train workers in 16 counties across the state to qualify for clean energy sector jobs.
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The GIS software company Esri recently recognized the city of Grapevine's GIS team for digitally mapping the layouts and access points of a local school district's campuses so first responders could plan for emergencies.
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