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A donation from Mark Zuckerberg's technology company Meta will go toward converting buildings on Capitol Mall into mixed-use facilities, including a dedicated AI Center and a new School of Public Affairs. -
If passed, a bill making its way through the Idaho legislature would not mandate the use of AI or the collection of data, but would require the State Department of Education to recommend standards and assessments.
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A private Catholic university in Connecticut is using an alumni's donation to construct a virtual reality-enabled classroom space with a free-roam pod, an esports lab and coursework in biology this fall.
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Two amendments being considered by the North Dakota Legislature would give money to research and career and technical education programs in the state, as well as money for UND's space command initiative.
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The global data management company is investing in purpose-built software for higher education after seeing revenue growth in 2020, as well as a rise in demand for advanced digital education tools.
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Cleveland Community College broke ground this week on its Advanced Technology Center, a $15 million facility for science programs, a computer lab and office space for the Cleveland County Economic Development Partnership.
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Thousands of teachers from over 40 states and seven countries have found jobs at schools across Tennessee through an online portal launched in May 2020 by the state Department of Education.
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Textbook costs have been prohibitively expensive for some college students, and a growing movement on California campuses is trying to address the problem with grant programs and free online materials.
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Under an Indiana House budget proposal approved in February, several career courses such as radio/TV, cosmetology, culinary arts, nutrition science, energy industry and fashion would lose funding.
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Career training courses that typically involve hands-on experience in professional environments have had to adapt with masks, distancing, virtual instruction and other COVID-related precautions.
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Council members for Buffalo Public Schools are debating whether to keep school speed-zone cameras on all day, instead of only around arrival and dismissal times, and whether that could be consistently enforced.
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In a guest column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Tavarez Holston, president of the Clarkston-based Georgia Piedmont Technical College, offers his view on how technical colleges can help the U.S. economy recover.
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Teachers in Hamilton County Schools, Tenn., have learned to use ed-tech tools and platforms with the help of a local digital literacy program, boosting their confidence while adjusting to remote instruction.
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Georgia spends about $10 billion a year on schools, and it has collected more than half that much in additional funding over the past 12 months. Some of it will go toward training, tech upgrades and temporary expenses.
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Cooperative support services and cloud backups helped the district recover from a ransomware attack on Friday, which didn’t affect student information or grades but targeted servers. The FBI is still investigating.
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Six higher-education institutions will get $2.8 million from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to bolster STEM skills among minority students as part of a DHS grant program established in 2007.
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The novelty of remote instruction has long since worn off, but school administrators in New Hampshire say online worksheets, recorded lectures and live video feeds will play a role in school going forward.
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A team at Purdue University published a new method for helping quantum computers communicate more efficiently with each other, representing a step toward a quantum Internet and next-generation computing speeds.
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A SaaS platform that hosts thousands of digital K-12 coursework materials pulled in its best-ever fundraising haul in February, while some say remote instruction is heralding the end of the era of textbooks.
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Hoping to minimize the disruption of the past year, Edison State Community College in Ohio will forgive tuition for 2021 high school graduates in its service area until completion of a certificate or associate’s degree.
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President Joe Biden signed a stimulus bill on Thursday that includes funding to expand Internet connectivity for underserved students during the COVID-19 pandemic, which ed tech advocates hail as a major step forward.
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