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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.
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The Colorado Springs textbook organization, BSCS Science Learning, will use the grant from the U.S. Department of Education to produce training for rural teachers, using video conferencing for teaching scientific principles.
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Everything about Calbright, the state’s 115th community college, is different, from the lingo – it enrolls “learners” not students – to what it teaches: medical coding, information technology and cybersecurity.
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The University of North Florida will use funds from the National Science Foundation to prepare 30 high school educators through professional development and coursework leading to state certification in computer science.
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Lawmakers added $3 million to the education budget to fund implementation of the Rave Panic Button app, which allows users to connect with 911 and first responders while alerting school staff in the event of an emergency.
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As school officials across the country worry about how to stop the next mass shooting, biometric technologies and expanded surveillance systems have become attractive alternatives to traditional security procedures.
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Bucks County unveiled a $412,000 fab lab that will deliver science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics as it makes weeklong stops at various elementary and middle schools in all 13 county school districts.
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With 25 clubs, the Fort Smith school district has one of the largest community coding programs in the state. They are a result of an initiative by Gov. Asa Hutchinson to provide computer science to as many Arkansas students as possible.
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The concept of blended learning has been around since the 1960s, but only recently has it taken off as a methodology, enabled by technology, for integrating traditional and virtual classrooms.
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Ohio Northern University has recently opened a 105,000-square-foot, $30 million facility, which is designed to promote collaboration and small class size, reflecting the university’s new approach to the way it teaches engineering.
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Davenport University will use the grant from the National Science Foundation to provide 28 students with scholarships that cover their full-tuition, any education-related fees and living costs.
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The increase of vaping among teens has prompted officials in some school systems to install special sensors to identify signs of it. Recent reports about the dangers of vaping products have upped the ante on the issue.
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The college will be the new home of a National Science Foundation-funded center to study the implementation of advance wireless infrastructure and drones. The center will receive funding from NSF and an industry consortium.
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Lincoln public school educators discuss their efforts that allow teachers to use the best of what the Internet has to offer while making sure students can’t get to what is considered inappropriate.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer announced he will co-sponsor a bill authorizing the Department of Homeland Security to help protect school districts and other public and private entities from cyberattacks.
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As the state’s governor, Asa Hutchinson has boosted the number of high school students taking computer science from 1,000 to more than 8,000, and has raised state funding for the program to $2.5 million.
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A group of researchers at the University of Connecticut Center for Voting Technology Research (VoTeR Center) are investigating technology that will enable poll workers to check- in voters electronically.
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The new Apple Hearing Study will be available soon for users to participate in through a forthcoming Apple app, called the research app, which will be available for download by the end of 2019.
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Though one-to-one computing programs continue to grow, particularly in higher education, K-12 school districts have been slow to adopt digital textbooks and curricula, often citing concerns like cost of annual updates.
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