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SUNY Oneonta’s Milne Library and Cooperstown Graduate Program were awarded a $50,000 grant to digitize the university’s archive of New York state folklife and oral history recordings. -
Laci Henegar, Rogers State University's STEM coordinator, graduated in December with the university's first master's degree in cybersecurity policy, governance and training.
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Howard University’s redesigned Intro to AI course, supported by the nonprofit CodePath and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, introduces industry-aligned training for entry-level engineering roles.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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As increasingly sophisticated education tools use AI to do cognitive labor, some professors are concerned that new features are making it harder for teachers to encourage students to use AI in helpful ways.
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In a Q&A with The Advocate, high school teacher Suresh Chiruguru talks about computer science standards, the challenges of a digital workforce, embracing technology and teaching for tomorrow.
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The Texas A&M University Space Institute will be a four-story building on 32 acres at the entrance of NASA's Johnson Space Center, with room for robots and vehicles, lab spaces, offices, classrooms and an auditorium.
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More than 2,500 applicants applied for funding through the Federal Communications Commission’s three-year Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot Program, which will fund expenses like firewalls and endpoint detection.
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In a recent presentation to the Alaska Board of Education, the state education commissioner inadvertently demonstrated the importance of AI literacy by relying on an AI chatbot that fabricated citations.
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A task force of parents, educators, students and community leaders found Colorado's school accountability system needs work. Recommendations include modernizing state assessments and a dashboard of performance data.
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Spurred by public demand for school safety after the Uvalde shooting that killed 19 people, the broadband company Wytec International is developing AI-powered sensors to pinpoint nearby gunshots and notify authorities.
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Texas A&M University is seeking approval to sell land to nuclear energy companies as a solution to power-supply problems in Texas. It may become the first U.S. university to have a commercial nuclear reactor site license.
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Albuquerque Public Schools and Central New Mexico Community College shifted to online courses Thursday in light of a winter storm warning, while the University of New Mexico canceled classes altogether.
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The Gates Foundation’s Allan Golston outlines a vision for equitable opportunities and the future of the American dream. As the transformative power of generative AI becomes clear, equitable access to education and jobs remains crucial.
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A Thursday afternoon event at a public university in Oklahoma invited female students to visit stations around campus featuring various STEM subjects, from cybersecurity to nursing.
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The online education nonprofit Michigan Virtual has partnered with Stride Tutoring to offer remote academic support for students in 700 school districts as part of a statewide push to reverse pandemic learning loss.
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State Superintendent Catherine Truitt last week advised the North Carolina Board of Education against a statewide approach to restricting student cellphone use, arguing it would be divisive and better left up to local leaders.
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Three months after Broward County Public Schools implemented a policy against most cellphone use during school hours, staff and parents are largely positive about it while students are ambivalent to negative.
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Proposed rule changes at East Baton Rouge Schools would bar users from sharing photos of students and staff, limit which search engines and devices can be used on the district network, and bar VPNs on school grounds.
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A new data-sharing platform at UC San Diego will bring the latest research and technology on wildfire ecology into one place, allowing researchers, government officials and other experts to collaborate on solutions.
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A Nov. 7 panel discussion between experts at Rogers State University in Oklahoma will cover the potential of AI in business and education, as well as ethical concerns with it, such as how it uses private data to learn.
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An advanced computer science course at Amador Valley High School in California gives students hands-on experience with emerging technologies. One project challenged them to create an AI-powered fact-checker.
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