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One education technology company is using the data generated by online student activity to try to help teachers keep their kids on track. PowerSchool announced "Unified Insights Student Learning," a program that combines data from its student information system, PowerSchool, with its learning management system, Schoology. The dashboard offers educators a bigger view of student behaviors and interactions with their online classes.
05/18/2020
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Upcoming funding opportunities for schools
05/18/2020
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Recent research by the NWEA projected major declines in student learning, particularly in math, but also reading.
05/15/2020
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The FIRST LEGO League season is kicking off today. Team registration for three age divisions will be open. The season's gaming begins on Aug. 4, 2020.
05/15/2020
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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