High school esports and middle school esports remain wildly popular as the new school year begins, with a free curriculum available and entire states experimenting with new esports leagues.
More children from low-income households are going to college than ever. Unfortunately, that’s not the whole story. While we celebrate higher college enrollment rates, we often ignore what happens to students from underserved backgrounds once they get there—a combination of pressures that can cause them to become discouraged, to abandon their dreams, and to drop out at […]
Merit Network, in partnership with Michigan State University's Quello Center and Measurement Lab, is addressing the digital divide in Michigan with access and availability data collection, and infrastructure investment and societal impact investigation and education. Three districts will pilot the Michigan Moonshot broadband data collection project.
bulb Digital Portfolios announced the renewing of its partnership with Future Ready Schools as the sole sponsor of the FRS Leadership Institute Instructional Coaches strand. The framework emphasizes collaborative leadership and innovative school culture for district leaders.
Nearly 30 Michigan high schools are among 1,000 nationwide that will offer computer science courses this fall paid for by Amazon as part of the online retailer's education program. The four-part Amazon Future Engineer program is aimed at getting more students to pursue careers in computer science and coding.
Schoolzilla, a Public Benefit Company that empowers school systems to use data to run great schools, today announced an exciting new enhancement to Mosaic District Progress Monitoring, a multiple measures dashboard to help school leaders make daily progress on their most important goals. The new feature, Metric Zoom, extends Mosaic's analytical capabilities by allowing deeper […]
Mosaic District Progress Monitoring's new feature, Metric Zoom, extends Mosaic's analytical capabilities by allowing deeper drill-downs into a school system's data. Leaders will be able to view up to five years of data, compare and filter results, and more.
Urban Alliance, a national youth workforce development organization, was awarded a three-year grant by News Corp to fund workforce readiness training and paid professional internships for economically-disadvantaged high school youth in southeast Washington, D.C.
The Here Comes the Bus' more affordable Lite version will be available later this year. Designed to serve smaller school districts that normally don't invest in smart school bus fleet technology. it provides real-time tracking info as well as e-mails and push notifications to connect parents and students with their bus.
