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A five-year Education Innovation and Research grant will bring an online literacy tool and expanded support to elementary schoolers in Iowa, Wyoming and other states. -
An upcoming event at Penn State Berks will host small- and medium-sized manufacturers and technology professionals interested in networking and learning about how AI is poised to change their industry.
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Starting next year, Avon Lake City School District will store Chromebooks for first-graders on carts at school instead of allowing students to take them home. It may expand that to other grades in the coming years.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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The tech giant has awarded money to six school districts who will work with IBM Service Corps teams on training, assessments and protocols to protect against ransomware after a banner year for cyber attacks in 2020.
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Following a $1 million donation from the same person last year, the new contribution will help the university analyze an asteroid sample and give students and faculty more time with the Giant Magellan Telescope project.
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The Pennsylvania Association of Intermediate Units and Penn State Extension are gathering data about numbers of students, household devices and Internet access that may later aid the distribution of grant funds.
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It's been a decade since Maine authorized charter schools, and today they teach less than 2 percent of the state's public school students. Graduation rates have been lower, while student performance has been mixed.
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With lockdown orders mostly in the rearview mirror and recovery funds pouring in from federal legislation, now is the time for college and university IT leaders to make their cases for spending on tech initiatives.
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In an effort to create an alternative to in-person tours, the university has loaded a new virtual reality experience onto Oculus headsets that gives prospective students and visitors a run-through of the campus.
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As part of Gov. Brian Kemp's 2022 fiscal budget for Georgia, Athens Technical College will receive money for a new 45,000-square-foot building that will house programs for industrial systems technology and mechatronics.
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The "Tech District Reboot Rally" at San Antonio's new Legacy Park last week hosted university representatives, students, public officials and executives from the downtown area's nearly 100 IT and cybersecurity firms.
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The consolidation of two early learning programs, the personalized Homer program for very young children with the coding-focused codeSpark for slightly older kids, aims to prepare a new generation for STEM careers.
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All 145 schools in the Pinellas County district in Florida lost Internet access for two days after a 17-year-old, who was later expelled and charged with a felony, hacked into the district's network.
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Given the robust demand for people with doctoral degrees in computer science, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro will start admitting students to a full-time, on-campus program in fall 2022.
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As part of its fiscal 2022 budget, Howard County Board of Education in Maryland has set aside funds for five additional technology positions and the Digital Education Center, a virtual learning program with 12 positions.
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The University of Texas at San Antonio has named a founding director for its new School of Data Science, David Mongeau, who will lead the new facility as a hub for research, professional development and partnerships.
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The largest grant ever given by the Richard King Mellon Foundation will be split between a new science building at the university, a robotics center in an old steel mill and a new manufacturing-focused institute.
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Technical colleges in Albany and Thomasville, Georgia, are collaborating on a federally funded workforce development program for low- and moderate-income residents impacted by Hurricane Michael in October 2018.
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Starting with a soft open this summer, a consortium of 10 school districts in upstate New York will launch the Torch Academy, a virtual learning option for K-12 students to replace or append in-person classes.
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Over the next three years, Mississippi's Vicksburg Warren School District will use Discovery Education's platform to curate digital materials for keeping students interested and connecting lessons to current events.
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Looking back on a disruptive year of learning from home, high school seniors in Pennsylvania recall lessons in organization, work ethics and the challenges of interacting through video conferencing technology.
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