The Biden administration has tapped the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS), Education (ED), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Justice (DOJ) to launch a public awareness campaign to highlight Federal school safety resources and evidence-based practices available through SchoolSafety.gov.
Through a partnership between Mississippi Department of Education, Mississippi State University Research and Curriculum Unit, and analytics software company SAS, the state of Mississippi now has a new online tool that shows the coronavirus pandemic’s effects on student achievement and progress and how school districts are allocating Federal funds to support student learning.
As the fall semester kicks off, the University at Buffalo (UB) has finished its campuswide migration to Brightspace, its new learning management system (LMS).
In order to create a more robust cybersecurity workforce, security experts explained on Wednesday that cybersecurity education needs to start at the K-12 level.
As part of the new academic year, schools across the state of Delaware will launch a new School Safety and Wellness Suite that the state says incorporates a comprehensive approach to alert administrators of serious situations while providing students with the necessary tools and resources to prevent or deter a situation from escalating.
Virginia State University (VSU) has announced it is the first university in the commonwealth to offer Wi-Fi 6E to its campus. According to a press release, VSU will upgrade both campus buildings and outdoor areas to offer Wi-Fi 6E. The school said that by deploying this latest generation technology it can “now offer instant access to a stable internet connection that wasn’t available in the past.”
University of Michigan’s Information and Technology Services (U-M ITS) is now offering its suite of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools to the campus community.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed new legislation to create the Illinois Graduate and Retain Our Workforce (iGROW) Tech Act, which will establish a new program that allows students majoring in technology fields to receive tuition grants.
As the school year gets underway, Code.org, ETS, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and Khan Academy are offering “AI 101 for Teachers,” a free professional learning course designed to “level the playing field” of artificial intelligence (AI) understanding among K-12 teachers.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it has committed more than $68 million in a new funding round for the Emergency Connectivity Fund Program, which provides digital tools and services to support students nationwide.
