• 10 Ways to Make Online Learning Work

    Among the considerations: connecting all learners with devices and high-speed internet, supporting teachers by providing the professional development they need and then recognizing their efforts with "credits and compensation," following best practices for online programs from sources such as ISTE, SETDA and the National Standards of Quality and rethinking the use of instructional time "to take advantage of the strengths of both synchronous and asynchronous learning." 12/07/2020

  • Military Family Students Face Extra Transition Obstacles Beyond COVID Hurdles

    If the typical American student has had to face turmoil in education this year, students who are the children of military parents face it throughout their young lives. 12/07/2020

  • Report: There's More to Come for AI in Ed

    The biggest uses for artificial intelligence in education have not been invented yet. But whatever they end up being, people working on AI applications need to keep educators and education policy makers well informed "early and deeply." That's the conclusion of a new report recently issued by the Center for Integrative Research in Computing and Learning Sciences. 12/03/2020

  • Department of Ed Portal Gives Snapshot of CARES Act Ed Funding

    The U.S. Department of Education has launched on online portal intended to show how much states have spent of their CARES Act education allocations for K-12 districts and colleges and universities. 12/03/2020

  • Amazon Opens Up Scholarship Applications for Future CS Engineers

    High school seniors who want to study computer science have until Feb. 18, 2021 to apply for one of 100 $40,000 scholarships being offered through Amazon's Future Engineer scholarship program. 12/02/2020

  • Wisconsin District Adopts Gun Recognition Tech

    A Wisconsin district that gives students the option to continue their education in person or online has adopted a new surveillance system intended to identify the presence of guns on its campuses. 12/02/2020

  • THE Journal 2020 New Product Award Winners Announced

    DALLAS, December 2, 2020 – Leading industry media brand THE Journal announced the winners of its 2020 New Product Awards today. THE Journal is dedicated to informing and educating K-12 senior-level district and school administrators, technologists, and tech-savvy educators within districts, schools, and classrooms to improve and advance the learning process through the use of technology. 12/02/2020

  • THE Journal 2020 New Product Award Winners Announced

    THE Journal 2020 New Product Award Winners

    For THE Journal's first-ever New Product Award program, judges selected winners in 30 categories spanning all aspects of technology innovations in K–12 education, from the classroom to the server room and beyond. We are proud to honor these winners for their outstanding contributions to the institution of education, in particular at this time of upheaval in the way education is being delivered to the nation’s 50 million students. 12/02/2020

  • Ransomware Hits Baltimore County Schools Thanksgiving Eve

    Baltimore County Public School students returned to class, via remote instruction, while the district continued dealing with a ransomware attack that struck the day before Thanksgiving. 12/01/2020

  • How State Accountability Systems May Overlook Low Performers

    Even as education leaders are encouraged to look at the data to understand which pockets of students need special kinds of support for their learning, a new article and infographic from a research organization have suggested that some "subgroups" of students are too small to register on the radar, which means they get passed over. 12/01/2020

  • National Accelerator Pushes for Tutoring for All in K–12

    The original form of personalized learning — tutoring — is about to take a giant step forward. Pandemic-era learning loss has motivated a group of national education leaders to develop an initiative to make "high-impact tutoring" available to all K-12 students, no matter whether their families can afford tutoring or not. 12/01/2020

  • Purpose Prep SEL Curriculum Expanded

    Social and emotional learning provider Purpose Prep is adding three new courses to its SEL collection, which will, in turn, be added to the curriculum made available by Edgenuity. 12/01/2020

  • New CA Center Opens for Equity in Teacher Training

    A new California State University project wants to eliminate achievement gaps in K-12 education through teacher training on how to reach underrepresented groups. 11/30/2020

  • Wireless Presentation Gateway Addresses BYOD

    AV company Key Digital has launched a new 4K wireless presentation gateway for bring-your-own-device environments. The new KD-BYOD4K allows the teacher or instructor to broadcast content to and from computers, whether they're operating on Windows, Mac, iOS or Android. 11/30/2020

  • Brief Proposes Alternatives to Seat Time as a Measure of Student Learning

    Is "seat time" really the optimal way to measure attendance during a pandemic? There are better alternatives, according to a new brief from the Aurora Institute (formerly iNACOL). 11/30/2020

  • COVID Learning Loss in Math Hits Hard in Grades 4–8

    Research on the scope of learning loss during the pandemic has a new addition. Education technology company Illuminate Education examined assessments done by students who use its programs and found "modest reading losses" in grades K-8, "modest math" losses in the early elementary grades and "substantial math losses" in grades 4-8. 11/30/2020

  • LMS Companies See Surge of Usage in Fall

    Overall LMS downloads were 250 percent higher in August than February, according to a report from consultancy Sykes. 11/23/2020

  • Wireless Presentation Gateway Addresses BYOD

    Wireless Presentation Gateway Addresses BYOD

    AV company Key Digital has launched a new 4K wireless presentation gateway for bring-your-own-device environments. The new KD-BYOD4K allows the teacher or instructor to broadcast content to and from computers, whether they're operating on Windows, Mac, iOS or Android. 11/18/2020