Education

The university has opened its new 320,000-square-foot facility for the spring semester, intended to enhance STEM programming and help the state meet growing workforce demands for math and science professionals.

The Australia-based cloud security company’s new platform for K-12 schools allows staff to filter and monitor content accessed by students on school devices, with the goal of cyber safety and flagging worrisome behavior.

For technical schools like Minuteman Regional High School in Lexington, Mass., adapting to remote learning has been a challenge that required setting aside funding, supplies and shipments for at-home shop lessons.

Some of the tools teachers have used to facilitate remote learning have allowed them to see and close content on students' screens, raising questions about privacy, surveillance and student rights.

Texas officials mandated that students take the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness in person this year at monitored test sites, although millions of students are still learning remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The University of Texas at Dallas and the city of Richardson are in the process of turning about 1,200 acres in one of the city’s oldest business areas into an "innovation quarter" with five new technology research centers.

The new funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission will go toward workforce training equipment at the center, which aims to develop employees in autonomous technology, cybersecurity, clean energy and other areas.

Stanford University and the University of California are among those warning users that their personal information may have leaked online after the security breach of a file-sharing system from the IT company Accellion.

An updated report from the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology found schools are improving their support for virtual learning, but cybersecurity remains a looming concern as schools embrace ed tech.

Three years after the school board endorsed more focus on science, technology, engineering and math education at Royalton-Hartland Central School District in New York, students and teachers are seeing benefits.

Mechatronics, an interdisciplinary field combining robotics with electrical and mechanical engineering, is an in-demand field for engineers and a burgeoning program at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga.

With IT professionals in growing demand, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill last week requiring all the state’s elementary, middle and high schools to teach computer science by the 2024-25 academic year.

The New Hampshire-based nonprofit Future in Sight has partnered with the University of Massachusetts Boston to recruit more teachers who can work with reading devices and other needs of visually impaired students.

Klassly, a social media platform that facilitates communication between parents and teachers, nearly tripled its worldwide users in 2020. Now developers are working to attract more clients in the U.S and Canada.

Three years after launching a cybersecurity degree program, South Carolina’s Benedict College has signed a deal to guarantee successful undergrads a spot in ECPI University’s online masters program for cybersecurity.

A new wing of Milton High School in Wisconsin, paid for by a voter-approved proposal in 2019, is dedicated to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) courses and will give students space to return safely.

COVID-19 intensified existing trends in the ed tech market, specifically an increase in investment. Some experts say the pandemic was only a part of the cause, and the trend is likely to continue after it’s over.

Of the 14 school districts that responded to the Wisconsin State Journal’s request for information, all but one had data that reflected a rise in failing grades, while trends in absenteeism was mixed or uncertain.