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Spending critical high school years online left many students unprepared for college, both academically and socially. Those setbacks have been compounded by lowered grading standards and emerging technologies like AI. -
School districts across Indiana have taken different approaches to AI, with some using it to automate grading or generate lesson ideas and discussion prompts, while others are wary of AI-enabled cheating by students.
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About 500,000 students across more than 1,100 schools in New York City had online classes Monday, after schools stress-tested the technology and prepared their virtual classrooms in anticipation of inclement weather.
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The National Science Foundation added eight universities to its CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program and will award $29 million of scholarships to students who agree to work in government cybersecurity post-graduation.
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The U.S. no longer leads the world in all areas of science, the National Science Foundation says, and many states have low concentrations of STEM workers.
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To meet evolving student expectations, the university has created a working group to explore investments and technology that would create infrastructure and a plan for remote learning options and online classes.
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The Maryland district has seen waitlists at its schools shrink since last August as vaccines, loneliness or academic struggles motivated some students to stick with in-person classes, but interest still exceeds capacity.
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Staff at Carroll County Public Schools in Maryland have proposed expanding the district’s world language offerings by having teachers lead online classes that students at other schools could access remotely.
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Together with a nonprofit, South Florida’s only historically Black university is creating a program to prepare students for success in industries involving cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, renewable energy and other tech.
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The editorial board of the Buffalo News implores New York state lawmakers to set aside funding and other resources to help school districts, including rural ones, prepare for cyber threats such as ransomware.
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The Indiana Department of Education’s transparency tool shows how locally developed spending plans are putting to use three rounds of federal ESSER funding, as well as competitive state grants.
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The $190 million merger aims to combine their online education programs and expand professional development training for IT security professionals, given the projected need for them in both the public and private sectors.
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Seeing the popularity of its hotline and video chat options last year to help students struggling with homework after-hours, the Ohio school district is contracting with TutorMe for 24/7 support in more subject areas.
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Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the nonprofit MITRE Corp. are collaborating on research into artificial intelligence in education, including potential uses in the classroom and barriers to its adoption.
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Ohio colleges and universities expect to train much of the workforce for Intel’s planned $20 billion semiconductor factory outside Columbus, including engineers, manufacturing technicians and construction workers.
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K-12 districts in the Colorado Springs area are planning more STEM-intensive lessons in elementary schools, updating course pathways to college and expanding the range of subjects that incorporate STEM into curricula.
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Seven years after launching Boom Learning, former attorney Mary Oemig and her husband Eric, formerly a Washington lawmaker, have seen it grow rapidly during remote instruction. The tool is temporarily free for new users.
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Operational changes forced by COVID-19 proved schools can shift gears when they have to. Given all that educators have learned about the limits of one-size-fits-all instruction, now is a time for exploring alternatives.
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In a co-authored piece for the Miami Herald, the mayor of Miami and the president of The James Madison Institute explain the city's plan to offer space and lease land to STEM-focused charter-school associations.
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Though a partnership between the I Promise program and crypto.com, students and families in Akron, Ohio, will get in-person and virtual lessons about cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and related career fields.
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The grant from the Cowlitz Tribal Foundation in Clark County will go toward classroom technology for students and teachers at the Washington district, for which connectivity has been a challenge during the pandemic.
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