Education
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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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The editorial board of The Columbian makes the case for school districts following guidance from state officials and implementing restrictions on student use of cellphones in class.
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A state grant will support the Center for Manufacturing Competitiveness, a research facility that will accommodate the nation’s first heavy-haul battery testing for the rail, marine and mining industries.
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A new AI-powered tool from the ed-tech company Edia tracks student attendance and family contact information, sending parents a personalized text within minutes of an unexpected absence.
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With a division dedicated to workforce education and continuing education, a public community college in Texas can tailor programs to the specific needs of local businesses, and adjust formats to the needs of students.
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The University of Maine's "Factory of the Future," a new 50,000-square-foot Green Engineering and Materials building, focuses on housing, renewable energy and infrastructure, national defense and boat building.
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A private Catholic university in Texas may be on the hook for millions of dollars because of class-action lawsuit over a 2022 data breach that compromised personal information of tens of thousands of students and staff.
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The six winners of Harvard's fifth annual Zaentz Early Education Innovation Challenge offered ideas to grow child-care businesses, support early childhood educators, simplify applications for food assistance and more.
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Chandler Unified School District is working with the University of Arizona to develop an honors course on semiconductors that will delve into electrical circuits, calculating expected values and hands-on measurements.
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Boulder Valley and St. Vrain Valley school districts centered conversations about AI around data privacy early on and got technology staff, administration and educators involved in professional development sessions.
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Central Connecticut State University is the first university in the U.S. to work with AI companies on developing a holographic synthetic human, and the first to integrate it alongside students and faculty.
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A panel of experts at the annual EDUCAUSE conference discussed why data and analytics, and ultimately chief information officers, are growing more important to the future of higher education.
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A new data-sharing agreement between the Sacramento Office of Education, Elk Grove Unified School District and several local colleges aims to deliver actionable insights for boosting enrollment and graduation rates.
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Pennsylvania State University is the new home of the U.S. Supreme Court Database, a public, searchable repository of the 30,000 cases that have been decided by the court since 1791.
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In the face of increasingly frequent threats from students, administrators at Conroe Independent School District in Texas are considering whether expensive metal detectors would be a useful or sustainable response.
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