Under a new model effective July 1, Florida districts must pay college tuition for high school students taking dual enrollment courses, but districts say they cannot use per-student funding to support college courses on top of paying for the students' books.
Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., and other firms are advancing a proposal that would require all Massachusetts public schools to teach computer science to help reduce their reliance on foreign workers to fill future programming and engineering jobs.
A survey of 1,014 young adults ages 18 to 35 who are either employed or students reveals that those who developed 21st century skills in their last year of school are more likely to self-report higher work quality.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) have forged a partnership to advance STEM education at DoDEA elementary and secondary schools worldwide.
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear signed House Bill 207 into law, uniting the state's two Career and Technical Education (CTE) systems under the guidance of Kentucky's Department of Education to ensure a more unified, relevant, and efficient system to educate and prepare students for the working world in a real-life setting.
While more Arizona high school students are receiving training for technical jobs, ranging from culinary arts to health occupations, growth is not happening quickly enough to fill jobs at some businesses.
Las Cruces educators and state officials broke ground on New Mexico's first medical and allied healthcare early college high school, which will be an expansion of the Arrowhead Park Early College High School, located at the southeast end of the New Mexico State University campus.
A public school district in Danville, KY, has shifted its focus from traditional assessments and is encouraging the instructional approach of project-based learning, an example of a growing number of schools and districts looking to spend less time on testing, and more on deeper learning.
Maine Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen outlined a new approach to education spending, deemed targeted education support, just days before the governor's biennial education budget will be revealed.
In|Site, an online resource for teachers, students, and administrators, has been launched by the West Virginia Department of Education. The site enables academic and career technical teachers to find instructional resources for classroom use, paves the way for the implementation of cross-curricular projects, and offers learning resources for students.
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