K-12

Mark Galassi, an astrophysicist and computer programmer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, runs an extracurricular system that starts with chess, ventures into computer coding and culminates with a research internship.

The Portland Association of Teachers has proposed giving teachers one day a week for planning and virtual office hours during which students would learn remotely, though some are concerned about potential learning loss.

A recent paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that on average across 12 states, remote learning correlated with far steeper drops in reading and math scores than in-person classes.

Voters in Utica, N.Y., will decide whether Thomas R. Proctor High School should add a 28,300-square-foot addition for career and technical education programs to accommodate growing enrollment.

The Iowa school district will spend $2.2 million of $32.4 million in federal money intended for pandemic costs, as Linn County's seven-day average positivity rate is 15.2 percent and transmission is at epidemic level.

Andover Public Schools in Massachusetts purchased three MOVIA robots that can pair with iPad applications and give young autistic children practice at receiving verbal feedback and facial queues.

A $195,000 donation from a local senior citizens center will help Clear Lake Community School District in Iowa add an instructor to its industrial program, which offers technical training in a skilled-trades field.

South Dakota high school students worked in teams to design and build robots to snag small rings, drag larger mobile goals, manipulate platforms and perform other tasks in a weekend competition.

A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the U.S. Department of Education to work with CISA on updating cyber threat response plans for K-12 schools that are more than a decade old.

Teachers and students at a Catholic high school and a pre-K through 8th public school are learning to collaborate through FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a nonprofit robotics program.

Two months after a cyber incident may have exposed their personal data, thousands of educators took up an offer from the Missouri Public School Retirement System for two years of free credit-monitoring services.

Education policy advocates say the bill provides crucial funding for K-12 Internet access necessary for online learning, which continues to be popular following last year's COVID-19 school closures.

Initially launched with nonprofits, government agencies and schools who helped identify people who needed it, the program is being offered more widely to citizens in need of Internet or devices.

The online cultural exchange platform Empatico connects classrooms in 160 countries for interactive lessons focused on social-emotional learning and building cooperation, cultural inclusion and empathy.

The Missouri State Library system in Boone or Callaway counties is administering the Excel Adult High School program, an accredited online high school through which adults 18 and up can earn a diploma.

The Michigan district will continue virtual instruction while surging COVID cases affect both students and staff, with buses shuttling students from the high school to the Lenawee Intermediate School District Tech Center.

Slated to open in 2024, six academies will focus on information technology and cybersecurity, medicine, economics, professional and public service, art and engineering, and communications and design.

Given widening gaps in K-12 student learning amid an influx of federal money for schools, reliable two-way communications between parents and teachers could help students forge relationships and stay engaged.