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New guidance and a national artificial intelligence action plan promote utilizing the technology in education. Some leaders, however, said resources levels must catch up for those strategies to be effective. -
Methuen Public School District and the city have filed court documents regarding control of and access to the district’s IT department and systems as a disagreement over merging city and school IT departments builds.
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Sophomores converged on West Virginia University Institute of Technology college campuses for the 31st annual Health Sciences & Technology Academy camp, designed to prepare them for careers in tech and other fields.
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Some school districts in southwest Missouri are transitioning their bus fleets to propane or electric, citing long-term savings, lower carbon emissions, rebates to reduce costs and an overall quieter ride for students.
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In an open letter Tuesday to K-12 schools across the state, California Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out research-based justifications and legal bases for local district policies limiting the use of smartphones on campus.
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Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, recently funded all mental health-related listings on the crowdfunding platform DonorsChoose, where members help purchase supplies requested by public school teachers.
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A community college in Kentucky recently received $650,000 from the National Science Foundation and a redesignation as a Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD).
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Princeton University's Prison Teaching Initiative this summer launched a program called the Coding Foundations of Research to teach teach interns — formerly incarcerated students — the basics of computer programming.
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After months of speaking with school staff, parents and students in Illinois, one reporter believes cellphones aren't helpful in the classroom but that teachers need some discretion over how to restrict them.
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For his final project in a nonprofit management course, a student majoring in cybersecurity created Digital Defenders Inc. to make people aware of the ways that can be exploited online.
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The New Essential Education Discoveries Act would follow the DARPA model, establishing a national center for high-risk, high-reward education research and development.
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Colleges in Miami, Houston and Maricopa County will lead the creation of the National Applied Artificial Intelligence Consortium, a resource hub for AI education and training materials gathered from educators and tech companies.
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Following the bungled rollout of a new FAFSA (Free Application for Financial Aid) system this year, the U.S. Department of Education gathered input from students and families for a new one they will test this fall.
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The North Dakota Department of Transportation's STEM Outreach Solutions program will give students in grades 9-12 and hands-on introduction to transportation and civil engineering work.
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While interactions with AI bots can be helpful and even life-affirming for anxious teens and 20-somethings, some experts think tech companies are running an unregulated psychological experiment with millions of subjects.
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A Phoenix-based technology services company will integrate its content resource management tools with a messaging service to analyze student performance and conduct outreach from the same platform.
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Researchers weigh in on government efforts to define standards and tools for ed-tech evaluations, calling for quality assurance measures, ongoing improvements, certifications, benchmarks and regulatory frameworks.
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Muscogee County School District in Georgia worked with Columbus Police Department to place cameras in 20 school zones to catch drivers going 11 or more miles per hour over the speed limit.
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New laws that will impact Ohio school districts this fall include one requiring them to adopt policies governing cellphone use during the day, and one requiring them not to give tech vendors rights to student records.
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As part of a "Business INCubators" course at Barrington High School in Illinois, students created a website to connect farmers market vendors with new customers and reduce food waste.
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North Carolina high school students will be able to qualify for job interviews with the drone delivery company Zipline as part of a new partnership with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
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