Education

Funded by the National Science Foundation, researchers from several institutions are using deep learning to comb through satellite images for insights into climate change’s impact on permafrost.

With word-of-mouth among students fueling growing enrollment in a STEM lab at Chamberlain Middle and High School, Chamberlain School District is planning one for elementary students by 2024.

With their investigation complete, Albuquerque Public Schools found that a cyber attack that closed down the district for two days in January did not result in unauthorized access to private data.

Set to open in fall 2025, the college will have programs for general, electrical and mechanical engineering to meet an anticipated need for engineers in the area, with a focus on recruiting women and people of color.

The funding will provide various schools and educational organizations with new technology and curriculum materials to strengthen science, technology, engineering and math programming for K-12 across the state.

With the Belgium-based Spotit set to open its first U.S. office in Raleigh, North Carolina State University's Centennial Campus expects to grow its computer science and engineering programs and add more than 100 jobs.

Enrollment in the state's 21 county-vocational schools has jumped 41 percent since 2000, and that trend is expected to continue with $275 million in additional funding this summer to expand career training programs.

The new bipartisan omnibus appropriations agreement will fund various programs across the city for adult education, technical skills development, reducing high school dropout rates, prison education and job training.

The state is investing $2.7 million in STEM programming at Kalamazoo RESA, Grand Valley State University and Washtenaw Intermediate School District, the state announced this week.

Advanced students at Hazelwood Middle School in Indiana worked with a former astronaut and the nonprofit Higher Orbits to design experiments, one of which was chosen to be launched to the International Space Station.

A new associate’s degree program at Pennsylvania Highlands Community College will teach students line maintenance and construction aspects of electrical utility work, preparing them for jobs working on power lines.

A Digital Education Grant for the Georgia 4-H Tech Changemakers program in Catoosa County will equip the local senior center with a technology lab in which 4-H students will teach digital literacy skills to older adults.

The Chicago-based ed tech company is expanding its database of how-to guides, white papers, videos and other multimedia resources to help college and university faculty build hybrid and online courses.

Scores of bills have been introduced to limit or forbid classroom discussion of topics at the heart of modern civic life, including race and gender. Even if most won’t become law, they’re putting educators on edge.

Students from 73 middle and high schools on Tuesday attended MisinfoDay, an annual, nonpartisan event hosted by the University of Washington to teach people about misinformation and disinformation.

Money from the FCC’s Emergency Connectivity Fund will go toward laptops, tablets, Wi-Fi hot spots, modems, routers and broadband connectivity purchases for off-campus use by students, school staff and library patrons.

The U.S. Department of Education has detailed many ways that states are using American Rescue Plan funds to make up for lost instructional time, create new CTE and summer programs, and incentivize work-based learning.

An annual report from the K12 Security Information Exchange says ransomware has surpassed data breach attacks as the largest category of cyber attacks on schools, often coming from sophisticated criminals overseas.