The Colorado High School Activities Association is testing esports in schools this year to figure out whether to add it to the athletics fold.
10/02/2019
A California school district is launching a joint STEAM career program with an esports tournament. The Compton Unified School District esports program is intended to help students develop STEAM skills, especially in computer programming, and develop their abilities in collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking and problem-solving.
10/01/2019
Ten school districts are part of a new free program to help school leaders identify funding opportunities and maximize their efforts to get access to in-demand resources.
10/01/2019
The DNSWatchGO solution from WatchGuard Technologies alerts educators about real-time phishing attempts and protect them against malicious websites on- and off-school premises.
10/01/2019
High school students in St. Louis Public School District received free smartphones and wireless connectivity from wireless provider Sprint as part of the 1million Project.
09/30/2019
Upcoming funding opportunities for schools
09/30/2019
A new program from startup incubator New Lab provides Brooklyn South high school students with opportunities to develop projects that explore the impact of technology on different industries.
09/26/2019
The new set of application programming interfaces will give developers the ability to create Alexa skills that can be integrated into their education technology systems and platforms
09/26/2019
The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University is introducing an interactive interface to show schools, districts and counties compare against the national average in three measures of academic performance. The interactive data tool provides the public with information on test scores and learning rates broken down by race, gender and family income rates that can be shared as charts, maps and download PDFs.
09/25/2019
The Northside Independent School District is joining forces with the MIND Research Institute to equip elementary school students with skills to solve mathematical problems.
09/25/2019
A $150,000 grant from the U.S. Air Force will enable the National 4-H Council to work with three states to provide free educational materials related to STEM.
09/25/2019
Google is introducing a new analytics offering that allows G Suite for Education administrators to get insights into how different Google solutions are being utilized within their organizations.
09/24/2019
Wearing headsets, students can visualize how the magnetic field works in two or three dimensions by manipulating virtual bar magnets with their fingers and watching how compass needles respond to this invisible phenomenon.
09/24/2019
The new PBL unit will provide teachers with resources to explore hunger and malnutrition issues around the world in their classrooms.
09/24/2019
The EdAware app gives school staff more flexibility to record and report concerns about student safety.
09/24/2019
OpenSciEd is rolling out one of the first curricula that both aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards and, as an open science education resource, is free.
09/23/2019
As an elementary school was being closed down in Wisconsin, student records were pitched into a dumpster. The discovery led Oshkosh Area School District to activate its data breach protocol.
09/23/2019