PowerSchool, a leading provider of K-12 education technology solutions, announced that PowerSchool SIS, its award-winning student information system, was selected by the Alabama State Department of Education to provide services for 750,000 students at public schools and districts throughout the state. PowerSchool SIS is an award-winning student information system for educational institutions that powers school […]
Illuminate Education, the leading K-12 Education Intelligence Platform (EIP), announces the release of its Achievement Dashboard product. With a focus on efficiency and usability, Achievement Dashboard is an interactive tool with customizable visualizations of real-time data to help district administrators collaborate, create shareable insights and design effective strategic plans. Through its intuitive platform, Achievement Dashboard […]
PowerSchool announced that PowerSchool SIS, its student information system, was selected by the Alabama State Department of Education to provide services for 750,000 students at public schools and districts throughout the state.
Social Solutions Global, in partnership with Ballmer Group, announced that Kansas City Public Schools joined their national initiative to allow districts and local nonprofit organizations to share data for increased program integration, collaboration and support for students.
A new study at Seattle School District high schools has found that later start times are associated with more sleep and better performance for students. They are among hundreds of U.S. schools that have pushed back start times, following the American Academy of Pediatrics' guidance to delay the start of middle and high school classes until 8:30 a.m. Still, fewer than 1 in 5 schools comply.
An AI camera live streaming high schools sports? Even replacing an entire camera crew to broadcast a junior varsity soccer game? That's no longer a player's or a parent's (or an athletic director's) wildest fantasy.
What if schools ditched the roll call, and used facial recognition technology instead? It sounds futuristic, but a trial is underway in some Australian schools. The state government of Victoria has cracked down on the federally funded trial, saying schools will be banned from using facial recognition to mark school attendance, unless parental approval is secured first.
The flu is widespread in Alabama and schools in the Tennessee Valley have had to take extreme measures to combat the virus. Fayetteville City and the Lincoln County districts in Tennessee were closed Wednesday through Friday last week. Back in Alabama, the Marshall County District was closed as well.
Starting this year, New Orleans public schools are partnering with community leaders to address the city's own high rate of absenteeism through an initiative called Keeping Kids in School. It aims to address all the causes of absences, from truancy, or cases where students are intentionally skipping school, to absences caused by medical problems.
Countless data sources shed light on the skill gap issue: high school assessments, ACT/SAT scores, college applications, financial aid, college attendance—the list goes on. In order to support the evolution of our talent pipeline, data interoperability is essential. We need the data from various school districts—all with different tech vendors and systems—to speak the same language. We need to begin collecting robust, real-time data in a way that made deep analysis and scalability possible.
