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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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Decatur will add courses for students to study computer science, technology, math and engineering. The goal will be to graduate more students who are ready to work in the growing high-tech market in the region.
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With schools cutting back on musical education, online courses offer young students a viable option to learn how to play, sing or create music. But more must be done to give underprivileged students the same opportunity.
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Despite firewalls, browser history monitoring and other measures, some young students have been exposed to adult content while using iPad tablets in their schools, leading some parents to object.
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Four Marin County school districts will split nearly $1 million to prepare students for careers in technology and other trades. The grant comes from a $10.8 million fund to support a statewide K-12 smart workforce program.
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Farmington High School’s team of robotic students modified a wheelchair to fit the needs of a disabled child and the project caught the attention of aides organizing first lady Melania Trump’s “Be Best” event.
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With more than 100,000 people in the United States currently on transplant waitlists, researchers hope to find ways for 3-D printing to create organs that would save lives.
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Researchers find promising results for two programs patterned after the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, a renowned initiative launched at UMBC in the 1980s and known to increase diversity in STEM.
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The Tuscaloosa County School System will spend $13,000 annually to cover the cost of a free phone app that allows users to anonymously report bullying incidents, reducing the risk of retaliation.
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Schools in Framingham have turned to a bus tracking app to revamp routes and make them more efficient in an effort to alleviate travel times for students while grappling with a statewide shortage of bus drivers.
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More than a dozen institutions in the state system have started programs in the past three years. The University of Minnesota, which has a Masters program in cybersecurity, will offer a 24-week boot camp this summer.
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Klara Jelinkova became the university’s first chief information officer in 2015, but her start in technology can be traced back to the days of the Iron Curtain when her mother taught her coding in Czechoslovakia.
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Pedro Rivera toured a STEM Lab at Northeast Middle School in Reading, as part of his effort to find out how the state’s emphasis on STEM teaching is progressing in Pennsylvania and what more needs to be done.
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A new company has grown out of academic work at Virginia Tech and is now working to develop innovative ways to help high school students benefit from VR lessons, beginning with Spanish classes and branching out.
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The Burbank Unified Schools have received a $434,805 California Career Technical Education Incentive grant, which will help fund three makerspace facilities that can be used by students pursuing technical career paths.
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Savannah-Chatham Public Schools are testing HP Classroom Manager, which allows teachers to control what websites students can access on their digital devices. The goal is to reduce distractions during lessons.
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Aiken Technical College, in Graniteville, S.C., is accredited to offer training and certification for fifth generation wireless technology, which would need to be installed on the country’s 250,000 cell towers.
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In Allegany County, Md., heightened school security has become the norm in the 20 years since the shooting at Columbine High School. And more is coming in the form of visitor tracking systems.
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The University of California, Davis, will test whether VR technology can help children between the ages of 8 to 12 with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder to reduce their sensitivity to distractions.
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