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Founded in 2025 over concerns about students not learning how to engage in evidence-based conversations about controversial topics, the Or Initiative aims to equip them with civil discourse skills. -
Grand Valley State University's planned Blue Dot technology hub will include new event spaces, an immersive-reality lab with a 360-degree display, a cybersecurity lab, a multimedia production studio and other resources.
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Various State University of New York schools are working with University at Albany, Binghamton University, University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University on AI programming and research for students and faculty.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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It was the first time the principal at Oregon's Phoenix High School used the Web-based voicemail notification system in an emergency situation -- and it worked flawlessly.
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Google announced it would pay the entire $194,370 for school materials that 152 teachers across the city had requested in advertisements on the national DonorsChoose.org website.
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The LA-HITECH initiative will focus on preparing high school and community college students within three career pathways: design, visual and media arts; information support and service; and software systems and development.
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The university is one of 44 institutions that are designated by the NSA and Department of Homeland Security as a National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense.
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A fictitious town is the site of a political race that will give candidates a leg up on the competition if they use social media wisely.
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The district never notified parents directly of the change, instead counting on them seeing a notice posted on the home page of the old system for grades.
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With the huge purchase plan suspended, Superintendent John Deasy has alternated between assertions of his acceptance of the slowdown as a chance to regroup and denunciations of others who he said had politicized the process.
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States typically lose track of students once they cross state borders. One pilot project aimed to see if some states could successfully share data to shape policy.
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The state makes student data privacy a priority.
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Critics now look back on Supt. Deasy's 2011 video testimonial as early evidence of what they believe was a myopic and headlong rush toward the iPad, one that ended last week with the superintendent suspending the troubled $1.3-billion program.
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Some Texas lawmakers and public policy groups suggest online courses and degrees are the answer to affordable education, but a recent analysis shows otherwise.
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If signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, Senate Bill 1177 would prohibit targeted ads based on school information and creating student profiles when not used for education purposes.
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The Education Exchange, a 3,600-mile network that will deliver access to textbooks, classroom resources and instructional material through its own 10-gigabit connection.
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The program aims to prepare students for jobs in the field, which are expected to increase by 20 percent through 2018.
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The audit found campuses that had a surplus of devices and schools with no effective system to track who had a computer or who was responsible for it.
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The grant, which is to support 150 jobs over the next five years, will be used to create new research infrastructure, hire faculty and researchers and train more students in science and technological fields.
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The lab, which will be the hub for Maine's Cyber Security Cluster, stands to be a boon for organizations as more students will graduate with cybersecurity knowledge increasingly needed across almost all sectors of the economy.
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Computer science legislation is headed to the governor's desk as California educators call for an increased focus on computing.
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