Education

Following a spate of false alarms about active shooters, the Manchester school board has approved putting the gunfire-detection system ShotSpotter, along with Fusus technology for live video, into school buildings.

Initiated by a $1 million state grant, the STEM Tech Career Academy at Springfield Technical Community College will be one of five such programs in Massachusetts which could enroll up to 2,000 students in the coming years.

A school district in Connecticut is offering a smartphone app, Zonar MyView, to parents of elementary and middle-school students that can track their child's bus on a map and notify them when it arrives or departs.

Anticipating rising energy costs in the years ahead, the university used money from its own budget and the state department of energy to purchase charging stations for use by the general public free of charge.

The Utah-based kindergarten readiness program Waterford Upstart will use ESSER funds to provide devices, loaned hotspots and access to its online lessons to families, including personalized learning software.

According to the nonprofit Internet Safety Labs, most ed-tech software tools share student data with third parties, in many cases without user consent, and schools should treat data privacy as an enterprise IT problem.

The Minerva University AI Research Lab has brought together groups of students to create and pitch their own AI tools, with an emphasis on addressing the ethical and technical concerns about the technology.

A mutiyear effort funded by the Maryland Center for Computing Education is preparing educators from Hood College, Frederick Community College and Frederick County Public Schools to teach computer science courses.

According to the Internet information tool Connect K-12, 376 Ohio school districts have Internet speeds that fall below the Federal Communication Commission's baseline requirement of 1 Mbps per student, set in 2020.

The foundation’s Future of Data in K-12 Education Design Challenge is asking education leaders to submit ideas for better ways to measure student performance and make schools accountable for results.

The Iowa district was one of four to receive $1 million from the Career Academy Incentive Fund, which it will use to develop educational programming in fields like IT, advanced manufacturing and agriculture technology.

The university is complying with Gov. Kevin Stitt's executive order banning the TikTok app on government networks and government-issued devices, citing cybersecurity concerns and data collection by China.

Maryland has approved Frederick County Public Schools' plan to conduct up to three days of virtual instruction per year on snow days, but the district hasn't decided how it will implement the idea.

Two years after founding Skillz Academy to train minorities, women, and people without four-year degrees for jobs in the tech sector, Courtney Williams says opening doors is a benefit to citizens and companies alike.

The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and the International Society for Technology in Education, two nonprofits concerned with curriculum and ed-tech innovation, respectively, intend to improve student learning and engagement by working together.

The Texas Department of Information Resources recommends allowing state agencies and higher ed institutions to share information security officers, which could be of particular benefit to smaller agencies and colleges.

The grant will launch a pilot project with Kettering University and Michigan Technological University to track and retain students in statewide high school FIRST Robotics, Square One Network and VEX programs.

A handful of high school students from Colorado won a global artificial-intelligence event with FishNET AI, which uses underwater footage and AI to identify fish species present in local habitats.