Cybersecurity

Brent Fruhwirth has taught social studies at Little Miami High School in Morrow, Ohio, for two decades. He was surprised last year when he was asked to pilot McGraw-Hill Education’s LearnSmart, an online study tool, in his American history classes. “At first, I thought they had chosen the wrong person to pilot a technology tool” […]

Graduates of Chicago Public Schools are returning to class—as tech experts who help teachers and staff with computer glitches. The program, operated by the national nonprofit Genesys Works, helps high school students in Chicago, Houston and elsewhere gain technical training and skills to fill entry-level jobs once they graduate—at more than 200 corporations and school […]

Nearly 30 percent of U.S. high school students admitted to using a connected device to cheat on a classroom exam or project, according to a recent survey. And 31 percent of U.S. students accessed banned content on the internet, according to “Cybersecurity 101: Teens in the Classroom” a McAfee/MSI International survey of nearly 4,000 high […]

A wave of new GPS systems not only tracks buses in real time, but allows administrators to map routes, films drivers for future training purposes and provides data on how well vehicles are functioning. The technology also promises safer rides for students and provides peace-of-mind for parents, who can download apps to find out where […]

Requiring high schools to offer at least one AP course would help increase rural student access to rigorous pre-college work, according to a recent report. Although the AP participation rate in rural communities has steadily increased over the past 15 years, it still lags behind participation in suburban and urban districts, according to the report, […]

One month before the beginning of the 2017-18 school year, Turlock USD was still short five speech-language pathologists. The salary offered by the Central California district was high by area standards, but even so, the positions remained unfilled. In fact, no one had even applied. Alice Solis, Turlock’s director of special education, struggled to hire […]