K-12 Technology News
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The bill repeals the adoption of CCSS and directs the State Board of Education to create new, more rigorous standards by August 2016.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 06/09/14
As the Common Core State Standards crashed in the Carolinas and Oklahoma last week, Missouri lawmakers reached a compromise on the standards designed to keep them in place for at least two years.
Dean Kamen, inventor and founder of FIRST, a not-for-profit organization created to inspire young people’s participation and interest in science and technology, honored the winners.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 06/09/14
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMUCC) will now train educators in designing and teaching courses for the Texas Virtual School Network (TxVSN).
Google is adding new features that allow multiple students to share a single Android-based education tablet.
Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina has signed a bill that requires the state to drop CCSS. In North Carolina, bills to abolish the standards are moving through both houses of the state legislature.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 06/05/14
Three-quarters of mobile security breaches will be the result of application misconfigurations by 2017, according to a new forecast by market research firm Gartner.
Wolf Creek Public Schools in central Alberta--between Edmonton and Calgary--will begin deploying thousands of Chromebooks this summer as part of a planned five-year rollout of netbooks and desktops.
- By Stephen Noonoo
- 06/05/14
Demand for E-rate funding is increasing, especially in rural and remote districts, according to a new report.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is working with Microsoft to make more of its K-12 education content available to users of devices running the Windows 8 and 8.1 operating systems.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/05/14