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A new survey from the research firm Britebound finds parents are increasingly open to career and technical education, even as traditional college remains their top preference for after high school. -
The university's College of Medicine will collect data through eyeglasses and smartphones to capture student-patient interactions, then provide personalized feedback on clinical reasoning and communication skills.
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Council Bluffs Community School District will spend funding from Google on an autonomous robot, new welding booths and specialized Project Lead The Way engineering devices and IT hardware for interdisciplinary courses.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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As schools made a fast transition to remote learning amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis, many students fell behind due to a lack of high-speed Internet connectivity within their homes.
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Originally scheduled to be held in Hannaford Hall on the campus of the University of Southern Maine, the event appeared to be another victim of the coronavirus pandemic until being resurrected in a virtual format.
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Pittsburgh’s startup economy stuttered with investors turning to protect existing investments amid COVID-19, a highly infectious respiratory disease that shut down commerce, university campuses and more.
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Technology that can track whether students, and even college football fans, are feeling symptoms of COVID-19 could be a major part of the plan to reopen Alabama college campuses and stadiums this fall.
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A device originally designed by Northwestern University engineers to record progress in stroke patients has been repurposed to study the effects of COVID-19 as it runs its course through the human body.
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SponsoredWith many educational organizations shifting their entire schedules to distance learning tools or full virtual environments indefinitely, never has the statement “we are all in this together” been more poignant.
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SponsoredOver the past two months, the number of students and faculty using the Webex Education Connector has grown 770%.
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Ivy Tech Community College recently announced that it will provide free classes to 10,000 Indiana residents in a range of relevant high-demand areas, including advanced manufacturing, business and cybersecurity.
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Students in Western New York are being left behind in online learning due to lack of access to the Internet. The digital divide’s impact has increased since the coronavirus shifted many schools online.
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The University of Texas at San Antonio is in talks with the Energy Department to establish a $70 million cybersecurity research institute, its mission to safeguard manufacturers who rely heavily on automation.
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With virtual summer school weeks away and final grades soon due for the school year interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, critics of remote learning in Chicago Public Schools continue to push for change.
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Google announced a $1 million grant to Morehouse School of Medicine’s Satcher Health Leadership Institute to collect and analyze data to explore why communities of color have had higher diagnoses of COVID-19.
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The Housing Authority of the city of Pittsburgh announced it was making the donation Thursday, saying it was part of an effort to help end the digital divide facing many low-income communities.
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The new policies are based on recent recommendations from the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) that no student be given a failing grade and that new grading systems and policies prioritize flexibility and equity.
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Alabama’s schools could look very different when classes start again in August, and not just because teachers could be wearing masks. Alabama classrooms could also be missing hundreds of thousands of children.
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The Tularosa, N.M., Board of Education, in a Tuesday special session held online, approved the submission of an application for $477,087 to purchase electronic devices for Tularosa students through the CARES Act.
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The city of Laredo is partnering with local school districts to create a public Wi-Fi network that would be accessible to students without Internet service in the event of a resurgence of the novel coronavirus.
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With the transition to online learning to finish out the school year amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, teachers have moved to taking attendance by engagement rather than a traditional roll call.
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