Nonprofit Kâ12 research firm NWEA on Tuesday released a new study that illustrates how the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted student progress â and how it has disproportionately impacted students of color and students in high-poverty schools.
- By Kristal Kuykendall
- 12/14/21
A new STEM teaching brief offers guidance on dismantling institutional and system racism in the K-12 science classroom. Published by the Institute for Science + Math Education at the University of Washington College of Education, the short report pointed out that teachers play a big role in changing the "racist legacies of STEM and schooling," through a combination of "examining [their] own prejudices" and embedding racial justice into their instructional practices.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 11/17/21
Two federal agencies have released a new COVID-19 dashboard to publicize how the virus is hitting K-12 schools. The new dashboard, produced by the U.S. Department of Education and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), aggregates data on pediatric COVID-19 cases, youth vaccination rates and numbers on schools that are operating in-person, hybrid or remote.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 11/15/21
SETDA, a membership association of U.S. state and territorial educational technology leaders, honored three individuals for their contributions to the use and support of technology in K-12 education.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 11/15/21
The nonprofit that helped close the school digital gap is now back, with a new goal: Making sure families who need home access to affordable broadband can get it.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 11/04/21
EducationSuperHighway is shifting its attention away from the needs of K-12 internet connectivity and to the unconnected American household. The nonprofit, which helped close down the "classroom connectivity gap," has a new mission: to make sure the 18.1 million households that can't afford to connect to broadband get it.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 11/04/21
Network security in schools and libraries is both urgent and deserving of funding through the federal E-rate program, according to the latest E-rate Trends Report, released today by E-rate services and support firm Funds for Learning.
Education innovator Digital Promise has launched a new network that's intended to inspire research on digital learning at scale in both K-12 and higher education. SEERNet is a five-year program with a model that differs from the traditional approach of research.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/26/21
While a lot of districts and schools struggled on their own during the early months of the pandemic to come up with ways to figure out which of their students needed access to computing gear and broadband, the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has had a better idea: Why not come up with a standardized way to collect that information that local education agencies can turn to when the need arises?
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/14/21
The United States Department of Education has approved school plans from four more states and delivered a total of $2.817 billion in remaining American Rescue Plan funds to those states.