In this web seminar, presenters discussed how the Nevada Learning Academy is essential to Clark County School District's effort to provide supplemental online courses to over 100 middle schools and high schools across one of the nation's largest school districts. Sponsored content by fueleducation.
Today's focus on STEM projects seems irrevocably linked to makerspaces. Educators have seen students thrive when they experiment with tools and technology to create various objects.
Diversifying gifted and talented programs represents only the first step in expanding access, educators say. Districts also must retain those students—and that means ensuring their experiences are positive.
Because of school districts and charter schools that have been impacted by Hurricane Florence, the state's Department of Public Instruction has delayed the release of the 2017-18 North Carolina school report cards until later this winter.
The Chicago Board of Education sued the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos in federal court for revoking millions of grant dollars over the school district’s alleged failures to protect students from sexual violence. The Chicago Board of Education sued the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos in federal court on Friday for revoking millions of […]
Colorado State University-Global Campus partnered with Aurora Public Schools to build a headquarters for the fully online university on district land. The university will leverage lease payments to make college possible for more Denver-area students. Leaders at Colorado State University-Global Campus, in searching for a new headquarters, found a way to leverage their lease payments to make college possible for more […]
One of the most fertile areas for collaborative problem-solving between colleges and their K12 counterparts may be the mission they share: education. When edtech developers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania asked K12 teachers to wish for a superpower, the teachers imagined student data hovering in midair before their very eyes. Wish granted. Lumilo, the […]
The recent shooting, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has rekindled the hot debate about gun control in the United States. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), a proponent of more restrictions on firearms, argued, “This happens nowhere else, other than the United States of America. It only happens here not because of coincidence, […]
Real-world passion projects inspired magnet school students in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to design sturdier bulletproof vests and faster sails, among other innovations. The students attended biotech, engineering and IT-focused academies at Fairchild Wheeler Interdistrict Multi-Magnet High School. The research- or design-oriented assignments enable students to focus on their hobbies and interests. And senior students must design […]
