By: Jeran Culina America’s rural states face unique challenges when it comes to workforce development – low population density, geographic isolation, and limited resources. Accelerate Montana has emerged as a national leader in developing evidence-based workforce solutions that demonstrate measurable outcomes while respecting local values. By piloting innovative programs, Accelerate Montana builds...[Read More]
West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District in Central New Jersey has partnered with assessment and data platform Otus and ed tech company Discovery Education to better utilize data to support student achievement.
Two decades ago, Texas made history as the first state to grant in-state tuition to undocumented students. Now, it has taken that opportunity away — upending thousands of young lives and, advocates warn, potentially influencing other states to restrict higher education access for immigrants. The U.S. Justice Department filed a complaint against Texas in June seeking to prevent the continued implem...[Read More]
By: Michelle Blanchet and Darcy Bakkegard Innovation is a common goal in education. But too often, the very people at the center—teachers—are left out of the process. Professional learning often focuses on ensuring that teachers implement top-down initiatives or adapt rigid models and frameworks that rarely reflect the realities of their classrooms or communities. What if, instead, we invested in ...[Read More]
From reducing environmental damage to imagining new forms of government, here are 20 examples of project-based learning. Source
The White House has officially launched its Presidential AI Challenge, an initiative first announced in President Donald Trump’s April 23 Executive Order on AI education.
Daniel Montgomery’s love of books started as a youngster with weekly visits to the public library, which fittingly led him to a nearly two-decade career as an English teacher. As an educator, he became a union leader. That led to another long tenure, this time as president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers, where he was first elected president in 2010. Montgomery will take those experiences w...[Read More]
With pandemic-era funding streams expiring, delays in federal funding, and cuts to the U.S. Department of Education reducing available dollars, how can education-focused technology and support providers diversify their funding and partnership strategies to sustain and scale their work? Over the last year, FullScale (Formerly known as The Learning Accelerator) has been working closely with a nation...[Read More]
The enrollment cliff has long loomed in the minds of higher education leaders anticipating that a sharp decline in the number of incoming students starting around 2025 could spell disaster for their institutions’ bottom line. And a lesser discussed — but equally concerning — enrollment cliff is potentially emerging within the K-12 education sector. While colleges are seeing the dip in large part b...[Read More]
Examples of education tech include mobile devices, adaptive learning algorithms, the cloud, podcasting, and virtual reality. Source
Microsoft has introduced two new features in the latest version of Windows 11 that aim to reduce downtime and improve system recovery.
Curriculum and assessment company Amplify has introduced a custom Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system to support its instructional products.