Standard Solar, Inc. has acquired a 7-megawatt portfolio of distributed generation solar projects for the Lake Elsinore USD in California. Standard Solar will finance, own and operate all eight projects, which are currently planned for phased development with all systems expected to be online in 2020.

Over 3,000 U.S. students attempt suicide each day, according to the CDC. Schools using Gaggle to review students' use of online tools, like G Suite, intervened in over 6,000 cases of possible suicide last year.

Students grow as readers when they have variety in their reading choices. That is why the Sora student reading app offers public library integration. In addition to digital titles from their school, children can add their public library for access to thousands of age-appropriate e-books and audiobooks.

Echo360 launched a new groups feature to enable smarter ways to share video for student learning. The video content management system now allows users to create ad hoc video repositories with controlled membership, allowing for seamless, secure video sharing.

With new on-demand video tutorials and live virtual training sessions from Scientific Learning Corp., both new and experienced Fast ForWord users can quickly gain the knowledge and skills to launch and maximize the effectiveness of their program implementation.

We need to shift away from thinking of discipline as the thing you do to punish a student who is acting out or to rein in a chaotic class. We need to implement approaches that prevent incidents from happening in the first place, like focusing on relationships, developing students' social and emotional skills, and refining what adults model in the face of conflict.

The new U.S. government AP is part of a nationwide push—both inside and outside schools—for high-school students to engage in civic debate and action. A civics revival is long overdue. As of 2018, only eight states required students to take a yearlong civics and government class.

After 38 years in education, veteran educator Judith Harper thinks what teachers are missing is more time to learn from one another.