Howard Dvorsky

Educators must prioritize data privacy, especially as AI tools gather student information. Source

SmartSuite, a next-generation work management platform that allows teams to manage any business process or project easily, has raised $38 million in funding. The post SmartSuite Raises $38M to Revolutionize Work Management Platform first appeared on EdTechReview.

Jobizo, a healthcare hiring platform designed to revolutionize the hiring process for healthcare businesses, has raised $1.4 million in pre-series funding led by Alkemi Growth Capital. The post Jobizo Raises $1.4M Pre-Series Funding, Eyes Global Expansion first appeared on EdTechReview.

Idaho is poised to become the first state in the country to eliminate state-mandated child-to-staff ratios for early care and education settings — a longstanding and universal licensing requirement used to ensure minimum quality standards and health and safety in environments where babies, toddlers and young children are being served. It’s one of a handful of changes included in a bill that seeks ...[Read More]

Washington and other states have partnered with Minecraft Education to teach coding and other computer science skills.

Software showing how a student interacted with a document can shine a light on AI cheating, but it shouldn’t be the final word, experts say.

Higher education might be faced with proposals that will negatively impact students, their families, and institutions nationwide as the 119th Congress prepares to pass a partisan reconciliation bill to achieve policy goals. The post 7 harmful policies higher ed could see in 2025 appeared first on eCampus News.

Schools should give parents a primer on how AI is used in education, emphasizing its strengths and weaknesses.

America’s education system was a groundbreaking effort to help a growing nation thrive in the 19th century. Now, 200 years later, the world has changed; the horizon looks drastically different. Collectively, we need to redesign our education system to enable all of our children — and, by extension, our nation — to thrive today and tomorrow. “Horizon Three” or “H3” names the future-ready system we ...[Read More]

Registration is free for this fully virtual May 7 event, focused on “Thriving in the Age of AI” in K-12 and higher education.

As high school seniors ponder the route they want to take for college, a fresh cache of data sheds light on which higher education institutions and programs are paying off for students — and which ones are yielding smaller pay days. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. EdSurge crunched the newest batch of data from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard to see how colleg...[Read More]

Pearson, the world’s lifelong learning company, and its English Language Learning business recently revealed findings from a social perception survey conducted by the Pearson Test of English, an English language test used for study, work, and migration visas. The post English Test Scores in India Compromised by Bias, Reveals Survey first appeared on EdTechReview.