Dyer County Schools debuted its new mobile STEAM lab, the Steamroller. The mobile unit is expected to provide roughly 1,500 K5 students with an opportunity to learn fundamental engineering and science concepts and critical thinking skills while working with a team.
Sphero launched Specdrums, the STEAM learning brand's first music-focused product. The musical, app-enabled rings empower kids of all ages and skill levels to create and play music by using colors on a variety of surfaces as their instruments.
Bills that have been introduced or will be this week would prohibit children from having to cross state highways. Lawmakers are also seeking to raise the penalties for drivers who fail to stop for school bus stop arms and want to deploy cameras on those stop arms to capture the license plates of vehicles that do violate the stop-arm law.
With a three-year, $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant, North Carolina State College of Education will develop and test an e-mentoring program that pairs underrepresented high school students with engineering majors of similar background, race, gender and experiences studying at at the college in an effort to improve students' attitudes about and participation in STEM.
As artificial intelligence becomes more mainstream, it offers many opportunities for students to learn skills they can use in the workforce. It also offers incentives for more companies to move into the K12 STEM education space—to meet a need and reap a profit. Except, there isn't much AI curriculum in STEM education.
The California Rural Ed Network recently launched an online resource bank that offers free informational and professional development articles about topics relevant to rural educators, such as teacher recruitment and adverse childhood experiences.
ECS Learning Systems' new STAAR MASTER Score Guarantee will ensure Texas teachers and schools see STAAR performance improvements year over year. The program initially supports grades 3 through 8 for reading and math using both the STAAR MASTER student practice books and practice tests.
Gov. Larry Hogan is allocating a percentage of Maryland's casino revenues to an education trust fund for public school systems. But with that extra monies, some local educators are worried about how it will be dispersed to school districts, and whether it will be on top of maintenance of effort or a part of the existing budget.
For three years, the Florida Legislature has told school districts to reduce their property tax rates so their revenue would remain flat as assessed values rose. They made one exception, allowing districts to benefit from the value of new construction. As the state's economy matures into a 10th year of continuous growth, lawmakers might want to reconsider their position.
Students may never read another work of classical literature after they graduate, but they'll see things on social media every day. Few skills could be more important these days than knowing when the news they are consuming or producing is credible, and when it's fake.
New projections with much lower enrollment growth come after Wake County voters approved a $548 million school construction bond referendum. Amid complaints that the bond wasn't needed, school administrators emphasized that two-thirds of the money will go toward renovations and pay for new schools in high-growth areas.
The Maryland district's school board voted to close a handful of schools, adding to the dozens that have been shuttered in the district over the past decade. The vote on the latest round of closures comes as the Baltimore district grapples with how to handle a shrinking student population and many low-performing schools.
Oregon students who wish to attend school outside their home districts may have trouble doing so next school year. They may, that is, unless the state Legislature acts this year to extend the 2011 law that makes it easier for students to cross district lines to attend school. It's no longer the controversial subject it was when first approved, and lawmakers should extend it.
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission's suggested solutions are not an adequate response to the questions raised by the shooting, Parkland students say. Some at the schoolparticularly those of colorsaid that the suggested changes, like heightened security and armed teachers, would make the school feel less safe.
Hack is a full-stack laptop designed to teach kids to code by enabling them to hack games, settings and apps. Built on the Linux-based Endless Operating System, kids access source code and use a real sandbox for learning how to code.
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