The LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group are supporting a project that will help blind and visually impaired children learn Braille. The customized LEGO Braille Bricks will be molded with the same number of studs used for individual letters and numbers in the Braille alphabet, while remaining compatible with the LEGO System in Play.
Senate Education Committee Chairwoman Patricia Rucker said West Virginia's upcoming special legislative session on education will include additional bills on charter schools and education savings accounts.
Excelligence Learning Corporation has acquired the Letter People and the DIG comprehensive pre-K curriculum from Abrams Learning Trends. The Abrams products acquired will be incorporated into Frog Street Press, a subsidiary of Excelligence.
The Johns Hopkins University will create a new interdisciplinary center for school safety and health for school leaders. The center will bring together more than two dozen faculty from disciplines as diverse as education and public health to applied physics.
The latest K-12 edtech news from the nation's capital, including how more states are now offering edtech training and how educators are preparing to have their voices heard in the next presidential election.
Today's superintendent is responsible for ensuring that all stakeholders—in the district and the community—embrace transformative digital learning. A strong partnership with the district's chief technology officer and other members of the technology department is key.
Wake Up Stars is a storytelling game developed by board game designer Dr. Reiner Knizia. The second game, Lily Pond, helps build foundational reading skills.
About 6 percent of students nationwide are “twice exceptional,” or 2e: They have high academic aptitude but struggle with ADHD, mild autism, dyslexia, or other learning and behavioral challenges. Parents say it's often impossible to find schools to educate them. Now some are fighting to change that.
A partnership will leverage GeoTel Communications' geospatial telecom datasets to deliver strategic insight, enabling EducationSuperHighway to assist the more than 2.3 million students across the nation who still lack access to the minimum connectivity required for digital learning and the 1,350 schools without a fiber-optic connection.
SAS launched free artificial intelligence (AI) software for teaching and learning, a new analytics simulation game, AI certifications and badging, and a Boys & Girls Club coding partnership.
