Looking back at the most recent Future of Education Technology Conference in January.

Finland's education system caters to working families and receives plenty of funding, with more than 55 percent in federal dollars. Free meals, health care and outside-of-class child care are available to all students, who start formal schooling at age 7.

The Handle With Care program is providing alerts to educators regarding students who have recently been exposed to trauma.

Student bus badging—in which students swipe ID badges while getting on and off school buses—is helping districts better manage security and track ridership, say administrators who have adopted the tool.

Virtual reality, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other emerging technologies will so greatly transform business that an estimated 85 percent of the jobs needed by 2030 have not been created, according to a recent report. That uncertainty affects current students who will join the workforce in the next decade.

Districts have been installing laundry facilities at schools in low-income neighborhoods, giving students one less reason to miss class. Many at-risk students from low-income homes often do not have regular access to clean clothes, drawing unwanted attention and ridicule from classmates. As a result, they skip school. In 2016, David A. Weir Preparatory Academy—a Title […]

LRP Media Group, parent company of District Administration, has acquired Atlantic Research Partners’ National Superintendents Academy. The first cohort of the superintendent training program will launch in February 2019, with subsequent academies to be announced later, says Robert Avossa, senior vice president and publisher, education products, for LRP. “We are excited to launch DA’s National […]

Keeping Students Safe Every Day: How to Prepare for and Respond to School Violence, Natural Disasters, and Other Hazards ASCD This guide provides insight on creating emergency operations plans that follow government guidelines and best practices, such as ways to decentralize authority and responsibility during a crisis. Keeping Students Safe Every Day teaches school leadership […]