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An organization of school technology leaders has given a peek at the "hurdles, accelerators and tech enablers" that innovation efforts in K-12 will face in the coming year.
01/08/2020
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A new report noted that young women have "many opportunity windows"during which the intervention of role models, particular kinds of messaging, involvement in engineering activities and the use of student-centered learning "can have a significant impact on her choices and persistence."
01/08/2020
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New Jersey defines chronic absenteeism as missing 18 days or more each school year. And it's especially high for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten children compared to other grade levels, according to the state's Department of Education. Among kindergartners, for example, chronic absenteeism hit 11.4 percent during the 2015-2016 school year.
01/08/2020
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OER Commons, an organization focused on creating open educational resources for education, has developed a new tool for authoring OER.
01/06/2020
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Upcoming funding opportunities for schools
01/06/2020
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A college in New Jersey hosted 300-plus girls this week for an inaugural coding challenge. The New Jersey Institute of Technology invited in middle and high schoolers from 25 schools to participate in a first-ever coding-based competition. All are part of after-school "Girls Who Code" clubs.
12/16/2019
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One of the developments to ESSA’s new list of benchmarks requires schools to deliver financial reports that break out funding at the school-level — a task that was previously reported at the district-level. By December 31, 2019, each individual school must present their fiscal year budgets through an online report card. That end of year deadline will be here before you know it.
12/13/2019
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The U.S. Department of Education has simplified the application method for applying for small, rural school grants in 2020.
12/12/2019
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An Oklahoma school system was the victim of a malware attack. According to local reporting, between 75 and 100 computers at Bixby Public Schools were brought down, primarily in the middle school and an athletic complex.
12/12/2019
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In 2011, Instructure staked its claim in the LMS market by taking its learning management system open source. Now, the company has agreed in principle to be acquired by a venture capital firm. Instructure recently announced the transaction; Thoma Bravo has offered stockholders $47.60 per share in cash, valuing the company at about $1.79 billion.
12/12/2019
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Pritchardville Elementary has built parent engagement on three pillars: consistency, frequency and accessibility.
12/12/2019
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When an Alaska school district heard complaints about a new system for monitoring student online behavior, it fine-tuned the settings and reached out to its community to address the concerns. Juneau School District had launched Bark for Schools, a free program for checking high school student accounts on G Suite and Office 365.
12/11/2019
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A school system in British Columbia has expanded a program that pairs groups of students with athlete mentors in virtual sessions to help the kids develop their social-emotional skills.
12/11/2019
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An energy company donated eight robotics kits to a Massachusetts high school. Exelon Generation's gift, worth an estimated $12,800, increased the number of kits available for student use in robotics and engineering classes at Everett High School.
12/11/2019
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A 50-year veteran of psychometrics — the science of measuring mental abilities and processes — offers a brief history and insights into the future of testing.
12/11/2019
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Two schools in Oregon, one secondary and the other postsecondary, have renewed and expanded a partnership that helps higher schoolers pursue STEM education and careers.
12/11/2019
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Half of all malware that tried to infect computers during the third quarter of 2019 was already known. The other half was "zero-day" malware, which bypassed (and therefore went undetected by) traditional signature-based security software.
12/11/2019
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A Silicon Valley library’s quest to ignite innovation.
12/11/2019