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The programs align with district salary schedules and cost less than traditional graduate degrees.
05/14/2020
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Videoconferencing marvel Zoom Video Communications has acquired Keybase, a secure messaging and file-sharing service.
05/14/2020
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Scholastic esports is gaining momentum in the Lone Star State. The Texas Scholastic Esports Federation (TexSEF) is becoming an affiliate of the North America Scholastic Esports Federation (NASEF).
05/14/2020
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The largest district in Iowa distributed almost 21,000 laptops to students during April to enable them to attend classes online.
05/14/2020
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The Virtual Teaching Academy, an initiative by the University of Phoenix and Blackboard, is intended to help educators develop a blueprint for teaching in the next school year.
05/14/2020
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TherapyTravelers has been able to link 250 therapists with school districts, providing remote therapy to about 10,000 students.
05/14/2020
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The research project quantified how much less likely low-income and non-white children and youth were to have access to the internet than their peers.
05/14/2020
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Two recent surveys have examined the social and emotional well-being of K-12 students but from opposing sides — one focused on the students and the other focused on teachers.
05/13/2020
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Zoom has some new competition. Google has just made premium functionality in its online video meeting software freely available to anybody with a Google email account.
05/13/2020
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Spring fever is taking on a new profile in a time of pandemic stay-at-home orders. High schoolers are now feeling much more enthusiastic about the prospect of returning to school in the fall.
05/13/2020
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A new nonprofit maker organization is working with a company that creates computer kits to encourage people to make respirators for their communities.
05/13/2020
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A national survey of high schoolers showed that even among the top students, boys both favored and had greater confidence in math classes than girls.
05/11/2020
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Almost all states have now closed their schools to in-person instruction through the 2019–2020 academic year. Plans for summer and fall are now being discussed. Here's a complete listing of all states' closures, along with current known plans for the summer and fall terms. (Updated May 11)
05/11/2020
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Education technology company CoderZ has introduced a new course for students in grades 2-5 to learn how to program.
05/11/2020
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As educators delve into the world of remote and online learning, we must be mindful of the need to retain professional boundaries at the same time as working to maintain a high level of support for students.
05/07/2020
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Video management company Panopto has introduced a free tool to allow teachers and instructors to create and share recordings of their presentations and lectures.
05/07/2020
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A new report is out to help teachers and school leaders understand how artificial intelligence can change education.
05/06/2020
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A listing of arts resources organizations are offering for free in response to COVID-19-related school closures. (Updated May 6)
05/06/2020