• The Playbook Challenge Offers Multiple $5,000 Grants

    The Association for Middle Level Education has partnered with American Student Assistance to launch a grant program aimed at enhancing student career exploration in middle school. 11/08/2021

  • Follett Sells Off Baker & Taylor

    Book and digital content distributor Baker & Taylor will now operate as a separate, privately owned entity. The company was sold off by its owner, Follett Corp., to a private investment group led by Amandeep Kochar, who previously served as general manager and executive vice president of Baker & Taylor. 11/04/2021

  • A New Mission for EducationSuperHighway

    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. 11/04/2021

  • Nonprofit EducationSuperHighway Aims for Helping Fill Household Broadband Gap

    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. 11/04/2021

  • Google Docs Gets Updated Citation Feature

    Google has released an update to Google Docs, updating the citation tool to "streamline the citations process, ensure correct formatting, and reduce the chances of manual errors." 11/02/2021

  • Burke County Schools Adds Support for Wi-Fi 6 Devices

    Earlier this year, a school district in North Carolina refreshed its wireless network, to support devices with Wi-Fi 6 capacity — before they began appearing in classrooms. Burke County Public Schools distributed 1,500 new access points to its 27 schools, using equipment from Cambium Networks (previously Xirrus). 10/28/2021

  • LINQ Moves ERP System to Cloud

    Education technology company LINQ said it will be moving its enterprise resource planning suite of products to the cloud in January for all of its customers. The company, which produces a K-12-specific ERP system, is making the transition to enable district and school administrators and staff members to work from anywhere. 10/28/2021

  • Community Is the Key to Unlocking the Full Potential of STEM Education

    As educators, we are often a student’s first introduction into a subject or field. Therefore, it is critical that we are not only making learning fun for our students but also, more importantly, making it relevant to pique their interest. Oftentimes, the real-world applications of our subjects can get lost as we focus on preparing students for state mandated exams. Yet, this is often how our students lose their joy and interest in learning. 10/28/2021

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  • Report: Network Security an 'Urgent Concern,' Needs E-rate Support

    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. 10/28/2021

  • 2021 Young Scientist Challenge Winners Named

    Artificial intelligence and machine learning figured into this year's top two entries for the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, a middle school science competition sponsored by 3M and Discovery Education. 10/28/2021

  • Stanford Delivering First-Ever Dual-Enrollment Course for High Schoolers

    Stanford University is delivering its first-ever dual-enrollment class with 15 high schools across the country. A fall 2021 pilot has enrolled 220 students Computer Science 105, an introductory course for students who attend high schools where at least 40% of students live in low-income households. 10/26/2021

  • Zoom Updates Address Low Bandwidth for Teachers

    Zoom has introduced several new features designed specifically for educators. 10/26/2021

  • Digital Promise Research Project to Focus on Digital Learning at Scale

    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. 10/26/2021

  • Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator Web Betas Released

    Adobe has released web betas of two of its flagship software tools, Photoshop and Illustrator. A wide range of updates to these and other Creative Cloud tools were also announced today at Adobe MAX. 10/26/2021

  • Follett MyDestiny Adds boclips Videos

    Follett School Solutions has added copyright-cleared educational videos from boclips to its MyDestiny learning resource library. 10/26/2021

  • Multiplying the Impact of Math Catch-up

    Elementary school education is accumulative, building on whatever instruction came during the prior grade. One year you’re learning polynomials, the next how to graph them, while social studies gradually becomes more nuanced and comprehensive. So, what happens when a break occurs in the educational track? Across the nation, despite teachers’ best efforts, students are suffering from the impact of a year of online learning, and it’s crucial to recoup that lost training and engagement before the chance is lost forever. 10/25/2021

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  • Surge in Demand Drives Traditional PCs Up Worldwide While Shortages Lead to Decline in the U.S.

    Traditional PCs are continuing to see growth worldwide despite bottlenecks in the supply chain. However, according to a new report from market research firm IDC, in the United States, traditional PCs saw their first quarterly decline since the beginning of the pandemic. 10/21/2021

  • To Accelerate Student Learning, We Must First Understand How to Improve Teaching

    Why the largest driver of student achievement is the effectiveness of the teacher and how to best train teachers to improve those levers. 10/21/2021

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