The Ocala School District is enforcing a new policy as part of increased security measures following the April 20 shooting incident at Forest High School. Its nearly 6,000 teachers, staff members and administrators are already required to wear a visible ID. And now high school students will be required to as well.

Startable Pittsburgh fosters local teenagers' entrepreneurial and maker skills in a free, eight-week summer program that offers two makerspace tracks. The 2018 tracks were fashion and music, while past tracks have included metalworking, woodworking and textiles. Founded by the Innovation Works seed stage investor and its AlphaLab Gear hardware accelerator program, the program maintains a […]

Rigor is increasingly a concern in our schools. We continue to see evidence that our students in all grades are not working at a level that is challenging enough to prepare them for college and careers. However, we often misunderstand the definition of rigor. Rigor requires creating an environment in which each student is expected […]

To give students experience flying larger drones, educators at Duval High School near Washington, D.C., got creative. Federal Aviation Administration security restrictions limit unmanned aeronautic flights over sensitive locations. "We are building an addition to the school that will allow us to fly drones inside" says Christina Howland, coordinator of the four-year Aerospace Engineering and […]