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.
What has slipped through the cracks during many school board meetings is that improving school safety does not require districts and schools to spend enormous sums to provide a safer and more orderly learning environment.
A new National Education Policy Center report looks at K-12 personalized learning and finds that there are many reasons for school districts to think twice about embracing this trend. Computer technology often comes with an presumption of unbiased objectivity; however, software is written by humans, and it reflects their biases, assumptions and culture.
Brenda Cassellius has been named as the new superintendent of Boston Public Schools. She has served as the Minnesota commissioner of education from 2011 through an administration change earlier this year.
Computer technology has had a major impact on education over the years, but K-12 hasn't completely abandoned paper and textbooks. The much anticipated ed tech transformation has not quite come to pass. Here are 11 barriers to technology integration in public education.
A partnership between CI Security and Ednetics makes it easier for schools and universities to get around-the-clock information security monitoring, threat detection and response for education networks.
The California Department of Education is calling for schools to have half of all K-12 students on track for proficiency in two languages by the end of the next decade. But districts are facing another hurdle: A report shows that the number of teachers with bilingual certifications has decreased from about 1,500 annually in the 1990s to around 700 in 2015-16.
The state Senate approved a $19.7 billion early education and school funding proposal. The bill would increase state support for local school districts by $900 million over the next two years. Some administrators have raised concerns that it is insufficient given the growing size and needs of their student populations.
Although many students learn about the historical struggles to desegregate schools in the civil rights era, segregation as a current reality is largely absent from the curriculum.
