Education

Officials in Harlingen, Texas, want to use $4 million to give all homes in the city basic access to the Internet. Officials note that the investment won't provide broadband-level speed.

Part of a $50 million cash gift from Robert and Donna Manning, $18 million will go toward expanding the university's Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences, along with $75 million from the state.

The nonprofit Per Scholas, which provides tuition-free training and workforce development for careers in information technology, is offering a new program at a Jewish community center in Staten Island.

Inspired by the system in North Carolina, Boulder Valley School District partnered with the Boulder Public Library to provide students with access to the library's research database using their student ID numbers.

Studying ways to improve student math scores, particularly for non-white students, the nonprofit College Bridge found some Black and Latino students benefited from receiving lessons online as opposed to in person.

Monte del Sol Charter School in New Mexico used federal distance-learning grants to build structures and pathways to accommodate classes outdoors, for example to teach students about gardening.

Joplin School District has contracted with the Freeman Health System to install equipment at 16 sites, allowing parents to tune in virtually and reducing the number of days people will miss due to illness or injury.

After receiving its part of an $8.6 million settlement from a pollution lawsuit, Woodruff Career and Technical Center in Bartonville installed 545 solar panels on its roof that will be part of a renewable energy class.

How should schools prepare digital natives — children who have never known a world without social media and personal digital devices — for the world wide web? Half a dozen principles can help guide the conversation.

Local universities, community colleges and public libraries are helping older generations learn information literacy and computer skills as fast-evolving technlogies become increasingly integrated into daily life.

Educators are concerned about killware, the latest type of cyber attack, which can cause deaths by disabling life-and-death technological systems such as hospital networks or public utilities like water and power.

Janesville School District in Wisconsin said no data was accessed or destroyed, but students, staff and families are without programs such as Infinite Campus, Classlink, web-based textbooks and other resources.

Some K-12 districts that aren’t equipped to offer distance learning have partnered for those services with the Southwest West Central Service Cooperative, an organization that supports school districts in 18 counties.

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway last weekend hosted a competition between autonomous Indy Lights cars made by nine teams of students from 21 universities. Some exceeded 150 mph, testing the limits of the technology.

Windsor Locks High School in Connecticut is taking more of a hard-line stance against students having their personal phones out in class after staff noticed them being routinely distracted by the devices.

A cooperative program between several schools at the university's campus hosted students from Troy and Hudson high schools last week to get hands-on lessons in technology used for homeland security.

A new report says schools are making more use of programs that monitor student devices for clues of suicidal ideation and self-harm, despite concerns about student privacy and the efficacy of such programs.

Calling in on Zoom from the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Megan McArthur answered questions from students in Seattle at the Museum of Flight's Boeing Academy for STEM Learning.