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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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University of North Florida Chemistry professor Joshua Melko, began using an online streaming service to connect with students. The result is a wacky, scientifically dense event that has more than 1,800 followers.
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A partnership with Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing division of the tech conglomerate, will prepare high school and college students for job opportunities as more companies migrate their systems to the cloud.
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Amarillo College, which was named one of the top 150 community colleges in the nation by the Aspen Institute, has opened The Underground, an interactive learning center for collaborative education, at a cost of $2.2 million.
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Over the last decade, Minnesota school districts have made tech a central part of lives in and outside the classroom. They’ve spent hundreds of thousands annually to equip students and teachers with a tablet or laptop.
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Las Cruces Public Schools Interim Superintendent Karen Trujillo presented some updates on the recent cyberattack that targeted the school district, prompting a shutdown of servers and devices across the district.
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The Southern California university is helping an assortment of government groups tap into a relatively new data platform that provides innovative opportunities for research, policy and storytelling.
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With national support and the possibility of college scholarships, a growing number of high schools are organizing their video gaming students into competitive esports teams. But the activity has raised a few concerns.
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Macbeth Academy, an online college prep school, is trying to reach out and get more involved in communities of their students. The result has led to planning a student-run holiday food drive and toy drive.
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Students in rural El Paso County school districts don’t have access to makerspace tools. So, the county has launched a mobile STEM lab, where they can learn basic coding, use virtual reality headsets and build objects on a 3-D laser scanner.
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a portion of a $3 million grant to Georgia Southwestern State University. The funds will help increase the number of minority majors graduating with baccalaureate degrees and applying to graduate programs in the STEM disciplines.
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Worcester, the state’s second largest city, will use the funds to provide interactive online training to 1,800 government and school employees in topics from email security to USB device safety.
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Programs that monitor students' social media and email, which have grown in popularity in recent years, are seen as a means of heading off the next tragic shooting. New legislation would dramatically expand their use.
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Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s social work department has created a virtual reality lab as a way for students to ease into the experiences they'll come to face. However, VR is still relatively unproven as a teaching tool.
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The state’s university plans to build a $300 million innovation center that would provide master's level instruction and certificate education in technology-related fields for current and future businesses in the region.
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Carroll County Public Schools unveiled a three-year plan that calls for building the capacity of school staff through professional development, and preparing students for online collaboration and use of digital tools.
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute has received a five-year, $3 million National Science Foundation grant to conduct research and training to shape, guide and lead the transition to a robot-assisted workplace.
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A coding course called The Last Mile started small in a California prison before evolving into a 17-prison undertaking. Now, inmates nearing the end of their terms are learning skills they can use in the workforce.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Tuesday that Michigan has brought high-speed broadband connectivity to 98 percent of its schools, which means the state’s school districts are meeting the goal of 100 kilobits per second per student.
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