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Tim Newcomb is a sports, education, and pop culture writer based out of Washington state. He is the author of the book “STEM in Sports: Engineering,” published by Mason Crest, and a father to three girls.

Virtual Learning

Inside GameCon: New Convention Celebrates ‘Gameschooling’ & Making Learning Fun

With an Online Community & Summer Camp, Scratch Brings Coding to 42 Million Kids

North Dakota’s Summer of STEM Is Attacking Learning Loss Head-On

AI-Powered Tutor Filling COVID Need for Students and Teachers

Zoom-Based Program Links Young Students With One-on-One Reading Tutors — Right in Their Own Classrooms

Ex-Teacher’s Mission: Making Sure Ed Tech Really Works in the Classroom

Award-Winning App Brings Native American Culture to Life

Young Entrepreneurs: State Contest Catapults HS Team to $1 Million Valuation

Reading, Writing and ... R&D? How Students Helped Logitech Beta-Test New Stylus

The Next Big Thing in Education Technology for 2022 — and Beyond

Breaking Taboos & Barriers to Swimming, Science

New Digital SEL Tool Helps Teachers, Students Connect

$165K in Grants Bring STEM Education to Underserved Kids

Camp Invention Hands-on Summer STEM Program Goes Virtual

Online STEM Summer Bootcamps Target COVID Learning Loss

The Changing Face of Ed Tech Amid the Pandemic

“Innovation & recovery”

Online SEL Platform Offers One-on-One Counseling for K-12 Students

SXSW EDU Launch Winner Inspirit Creates Interactive 3D Science Models

Equal Access to Tutoring for K-12 Students Nationwide

Virtual Reality for All Students — Wherever They're Learning

HS Senior’s Research on COVID in High-Needs Areas Adopted by Congressional Coronavirus Task Force — & Puts Her in the Running for Top Science Contest Prize

With Income Share Agreements Instead of Student Loans, Purdue University Pioneered Program That ‘Makes School Available to Those Who Want to Come’

Amira Literacy Uses Artificial Intelligence to Analyze and Support K-3 Students’ Reading Skills, Opens Up Greater At-Home Learning Options

App That Matches Students With Community Service Takes a Virtual Pivot During Pandemic & Opens Up Fresh Opportunities

From Blue Light Glasses & Noise-Canceling Earphones to Tablets & Masks for Kids, a New World of Student Technology in the Age of COVID

This 12-Year-Old Won Nation’s Largest Middle School Science Contest for Her Study of Color, Vision and the Human Brain — and $25,000

What Would Schools Be Like If They Were More Like Children’s Museums? Designers of New Pittsburgh K-6 School Are Finding Out

Minecraft: Education Edition Using In-Game Virtual Worlds to Teach SEL Skills, Expand Girls’ & MS Students’ Interest in STEM During Pandemic

Educators Spend $13 Billion a Year on Ed Tech for K-12 Classrooms. EdTech Genome Project Is Looking to Help Them Make Better Choices

Labster Brings Virtual Laboratories — and Coronavirus Research — to K-12 Students

Reopening Classrooms With ‘Equity by Design’: How One NYC School Network Partnered With Architects and Designers on a Pandemic Plan That Prioritizes the Most Vulnerable Students

Schools Tell Ed Tech Leader They Expect Lots More Blended, Hybrid Learning in the Fall. What This Means for Teachers and Students

One-Way Hallways, See-Through Partitions, Handwashing Stations & Lunch in Class — Architects’ Models for Socially Distanced Schools

L.A. District & Snapchat Created a Celebrity Book Club for Students. More Online Engagement Is in the Works

Football’s San Francisco 49ers Turn Their Stadium STEAM Lab Into a Digital Playbook for At-Home Learning

These Florida Tech Team Teens Are Now the Genius Bar for Their Middle School’s Teachers and Students During Remote Learning

WATCH: In This Age of Social Distancing, Class of 2020 Graduations Go Virtual, Mobile and Robotic

Barack Obama, LeBron James, the Jonas Brothers Headline Nationally Simulcast HS ‘Graduate Together’ Event on Saturday Evening

Technology Shortage Hits Schools: As Remote Learning Jolts Demand for Chromebooks and iPads, Districts Warn Communities’ Needed Supplies Could Take Months

From Coding and Origami for Robots to Electrical Circuits and Animation, 9 Online Sources That Bring Hands-On Technical Learning Home

‘Why Do I Want Digital Experiences for My Kids If It Looks Like This?’ — Experts Fear Parent Backlash Against Online Learning

Current Events, Science, Politics — National Geographic Opens Up Learn-at-Home Resources for Grades K-12. 2 Students Check Them Out

Need Help Sorting Through the Avalanche of Online Resources for Kids Who Are Now Learning at Home? 11 Sites for Parents to Look At

With Coronavirus Closing Their School, Massachusetts Engineering College Seniors Hold Joyous, Last-Minute ‘Fauxmencement’ Exercises

Rat Brains, Ants & Underwater Robotics: Pilot Program Brings Live Virtual Reality STEM Education to Rural North Carolina Students

Meet the Etsy of Education: Online Marketplace Lets Teachers Buy — and Sell — Millions of Classroom Materials and Lessons

Remote-Controlled High-Tech Microscope Brings Cutting-Edge Science to Tennessee HS. And Now, More Underserved Schools Are Getting In on It

Middle School Marvel: For Her Science Project, This 14-Year-Old Invented a Way to Eliminate a Car’s Blind Spot. Now She’s Won $25,000 — and Volvo Is Intrigued

From Artificial Intelligence to Augmented Reality to Peer-to-Peer Learning, 7 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2020

Equity Maps App Tracks Student Discussions for Better Understanding of Dialogue Skills, Conversation Flow and Inclusion

For 30 Million Teachers, Coaches, Parents & Students, Remind Enables Secure 2-Way Communication in 6 Languages. It Delivers Academic Content, Too

CodeMonkey’s Banana Quest Game Gives Learning Coding a Certain Appeal for Students and Teachers

Guild Education Links Employers, Universities and Employees to Make Additional Schooling a Company Benefit for Workers

Building a Smarter (and Cheaper) School Bus System: How a Boston-MIT Partnership Led to New Routes That Are 20% More Efficient and Saved the District $5 Million

Kindi, the Uber of English Reading, Links Syrian Refugee Students to Language Pals — & American Schools Are Getting In on the Act

From Teaching Architecture Through ‘Minecraft’ to Giving Spanish Lessons via Taylor Swift Lyrics, Outschool Is ‘the Netflix of Learning’

New LiftEd App Puts Special Education Data to Work for Teachers, Specialists, Therapists, Parents and Students

AdmitHub: How Conversations With a Chatbot Are Helping Students Get Into College — and Then Stay Enrolled

As Both College Student and Entrepreneur, Jessica Sun Is Instilling Confidence in the Thousands of Kids at Her Debate Camp — and in Herself

CareerVillage Offers Underserved High Schoolers a Crowdsourced Portal for Career Advice — and Now, Google Wants to Help It Grow

Whether Through Texts or Apps, Schools Are Using Technology to Get the Message Out to Students’ Families

Hands-On AP Computer Science Principles Course Has Broad Appeal for Diverse Groups of Students — and Is Changing How They See Themselves

The 74 Interview

74 Interview: NovoEd’s Andrew Linford on Blockchain, the Sharing Economy, Student Feedback in the Classroom & Shifting Teacher Mindset

Possip Text-Messaging Service Enables Easy Two-Way Communications Between Families and Schools

CottageClass: A Microschool Hub That Connects Families With Small-Scale Teachers — & Takes Care of the Business Side

Meet Iowa’s Waukee Innovation & Learning Center, the High School That Apple’s CEO Called ‘a Model for the Country’

New Book Helps Teachers Unlock Secrets of Virtual and Augmented Reality With Lessons, Apps, and Strategies for the Classroom

With Goal of Hiring 100,000 STEM Teachers in Sight, 100Kin10 Asks: Why Is It So Hard to Find and Keep Great Teachers in STEM?

A New Way to Teach Kids About Money — and Debt: How the Award-Winning CreditStacker App Has Turned Financial Literacy Into a Popular Game

FIRST Robotics: How an Afterschool STEM Program That’s Grown to Inspire More Than 530,000 Students a Year Is Now Being Used to Shape Curriculum in the Classroom

New App to Help Disadvantaged High Schoolers Pick the Right College — and Know What to Expect When They Get There

Why a School’s Floor Plan Is So Important: New Research Shows That 78 Feet Can Make All the Difference in Helping Teachers Collaborate With Struggling Colleagues

After the Tornado, an Innovation in School Design: How Joplin’s Rebuilt High School Is Protecting Students From Mother Nature — and Peer Conflict

In Classcraft’s Virtual World, Kids Learn Through Gaming — and Look Forward to Coming to School

Ohio School Custodian Becomes a U.S. Citizen — and Students Throw Him a Star-Spangled Celebration

Apple’s Mysterious High School Announcement: 4 Education Tools the Tech Company Seems Poised to Announce Tuesday

Applying to HS in NYC Is More Like Applying to Med School. This App Can Help Students Find the Right School for Them

A Half-Century and Millions of Dollars Later, Beach Boy Brian Wilson Gets an ‘A’ for ‘Surfin’ USA’ During Visit to His California HS

South By Southwest Education Preview: 12 Key Conversations About How Virtual & Augmented Reality Could Change Learning at SXSWedu 2018

Parents Want to Know: Are All Those New ‘STEM Boxes’ Worth a Subscription? 3 Grade-Schoolers Put the Kits to the Test

Allovue: How a New Software Platform Is Helping Schools Follow Their Money — and Make Sure It’s Working for Every Student

ThinkCERCA: Inside the Computer Program Being Used by Hundreds of School Districts to Teach Critical Thinking Skills

What a School Believes: Making New Friends and a Better World

Virtual Reality and Selfies: Students Become Teachers as They Introduce Senior Citizens to the World of Technology

Color, Light & Room to Explore: 21st Century School Architecture Boosts 21st Century Learning

55 Years Later, Oklahoma School Gets Its Lost 1960s Library Book Back — and $1,000 for Late Fees

An Innovative Public-Private Partnership in California: Oracle Will Give Mentoring, a Tech Curriculum, and a New $43 Million Building to a Charter High School

Massachusetts Third-Grader Gets Hero’s Welcome at School After 15-Month Battle With Leukemia

School Principal Dresses Up as Real-Life Elf on the Shelf, Turns Last Week of School Into a Ho-Ho-Ho-Holiday

Hawaii Teacher Wins $100K Grant for State-of-the-Art STEM Lab — and the Whole School Celebrates

Holiday Gift Guide — For Your Favorite STEM Student: 9 Fun Toys That Also Teach Science, Engineering, and Computing

How a 9-Year-Old Boy in Pennsylvania, and Five of His Grade-School Friends, Hatched a Plan to Get 1,500 Coats to Homeless Neighbors

WATCH: Oklahoma’s Panhandling Teacher Spreads the Wealth to Her Fellow Educators

Quill: How One Online Program Is Using Machine Learning to Help Students Become Better Writers — and Learn From Their Mistakes

Educators We’re Thankful For: 9 Thanksgiving Tales of Gratitude for Teachers, Students, and School Friends

WATCH: Middle Schoolers ‘Rise Up’ & Inspire the World

With Batman & Batmobile Costume, Washington School Resource Officer Is a Real Live Superhero Cop

After Sandy Hook Massacre, Designing Schools for Safety

Make a Video Game Instead of Taking a Test? That’s One Way Teachers Use Bloxels

WATCH: Chinese Gym Teachers & Oregon Students Move and Learn Together

Great Pep Rally — or the Greatest Pep Rally? Why One Arizona School’s Elaborate ‘Wizard of Oz’ Dance Number Has Gone Viral

Here’s the App That’s Helping Teachers Better Organize Their Ed Tech Tools — and Aiding Districts in Engaging Families Under ESSA

No More Magnet Boards: Abl Scheduler Is Dynamic, Personalized Tool for Managing School Day to Day

WATCH: Michigan Middle Schoolers Row, Row, Row Their Cardboard Boats

Boosting Student Safety and Parental Engagement, While Keeping School Buses on Track

Bouncy Balls & Tippy Stools — How Flexible Seating at Louisiana School Is Helping Students Focus in Class

How Sweet It Is! 6-Year-Old Girl Sells Lemonade to Pay Off Classmates’ Lunch Debts

Growing Fab Lab Network Brings the High-Tech, Hands-On STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students

80 and Still Teaching! Arkansas Kindergarten Teacher Gets Surprise Birthday Visit From Football Star

Free Clothes, Backpacks, Supplies & Books Come to Needy LA Kids Courtesy of Operation School Bell

Why 600 Kids in Tennessee Are Writing Inspiring Notes (and Hashtags!) on Rocks and Placing Them All Over Town

‘Dream It, Believe It, Achieve It’: Teachers’ Bathroom Makeover Offers Messages of Inspiration for Girls in Alabama MS

Watch: Teachers Act Just Like Little Kids When a Huge Treehouse Appears in the Middle of Their School

Students to the Rescue! School Kids Lead the Way in Relief Efforts for Victims of Hurricane Harvey

Sony and IBM Team Up to Make Education Data More Secure – and Easier to Share — with Blockchain System

LearnLaunch Accelerator Gives a Boost to Ed Tech Startups Worldwide From Its Boston Home

Call Her RoboKid: How a Cutting-Edge Robot Is Helping an Ohio Student Attend Classes While She’s Sick at Home

For Schools, an Eclipse Conundrum: To Open or Close? For Fun or for Science?

WATCH: Mission to Mars Video Wins $10,000 and Visit to NASA for 4 NJ Middle Schoolers

In Oklahoma, a 3rd-Grade Teacher Is Panhandling Along a Highway Entrance to Raise Money for Classroom Supplies

The Martian, Classroom Edition: 5 Quiz Questions Buried in the Book to Get Kids Thinking Like Astronauts

Novel Idea: Texas Teachers Turn Middle School Hall Into Library for Giants With Painted Literary Lockers

How’s This for a Yarn? School Bus Driver Crochets a Personalized Toy for Every Student on Her Route

WATCH: These 100 HS Grads Made a Splash With Pomp, Circumstance — and a Jump in the Lake

Dr. Dre Gives Back With $10 Million for School Performing Arts Center for Compton’s Young Artists

Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning Boosts Math Scores, New RAND Study Finds — But Scaling Is a Challenge

How 1 Nonprofit Is Trying to Get Kids Excited About Computer Science & Closing Cybersecurity Skills Gap

WATCH: Teacher Reads His Book of Love at Faculty Meeting — Then She Cries as He Proposes

NFL Cornerback Gives College Scholarship to Virginia HS Senior for Making Honor Roll

What to Do With Pokémon Tie Son Made in 1st Grade? Wait a Decade and Wear It to His HS Graduation

The Eagles Have Landed — Outside This School. As Birds Nest Nearby, Teachers Hatch New Assignments

Personalized Learning

A Historic Literacy Effort in California Brings Personalized Learning to English Language Learners

This 83-Year-Old Navy Veteran in Florida Will Get His HS Diploma Friday — and You Can Watch Live

Watch — Jimmy Fallon Helps Maryland School Lay Golden Eggs in 26G Read-a-Thon Fundraiser

For Teacher Appreciation Week, Here Are 7 Educators Who Amaze and Inspire Their Students Every Day

ClassDojo, Yale Roll Out New Video Series on Mindfulness to Help Young Students Tame ‘The Beast’

Rolling Study Halls Give Rural South Carolina Kids Free Wifi and Internet for Long School Bus Ride Home

Darryl Adams Got iPads, Wi-Fi for Every Student in High-Needs Calif. District. Here’s What He’s Up to Now

True to Their (Old) School: 2 Minnesota Farmers Just Paid $35,000 to Save Shuttered K-12 Building

Personalized Learning

Will Personalized Learning Become the New Normal? Inside Rhode Island’s Statewide Tech Initiative

High School Sophomore Wins Google Contest — and $30,000 Scholarship — With Diversity Doodle

MUST-SEE: School Films Epic 12-Minute ‘Trolls’ Music Video to Lift Spirits of Sick 5-Year-Old Girl

In Uniting Students With Prospective Employers, the Whether Job Search App Wins SXSWedu Tech Competition

Principal of the Day: This North Carolina School Leader Makes House Calls to ALL 990 Students

The Fifth-Grade ‘Future Chef’: A Grade-Schooler’s Comfort Food Gets Her Closer to National Cookoff

California High School Nets $24 Million From Snapchat Investment, All Thanks to Curious VC Dad

South by Southwest Education: 10 New Ed Tech Startups About to Grab the Spotlight in Austin

WATCH: New Hampshire Students Hatch Plan for Duck Wedding. ConQUACKulations!

This Barber Gives Grade-Schoolers Free Haircuts — as Long as They Read or Do Math While He Snips

A Toast to Ale-Truism: Pub Patrons’ Donations Help Put Books in Hands of Portland’s Needy Kids

CogniToys Dino Can Answer Kids’ Questions All Day Long, in and out of the Classroom

‘I Will Be Your Valentine’: Navy Dad Surprises His 2 Daughters at School After More Than a Year at Sea

6 Questions From Newsela That Teach Students to Distinguish Between Fake News and the Real Thing

Must-See: Student With Down Syndrome — Who Couldn’t Walk Till Age 2 — Scores Varsity Basketball Shot

Would You Be My Friend? How Buddy Benches Are Helping Lonely Kids Find Playmates at Recess

Kansas Couple’s Donation Gives Teens Free Visits to Art Institute of Chicago for the Next 25 Years

Rhode Island’s Big Bet on Classroom Innovation: A Statewide Personalized-Learning Initiative

With Amazon Inspire, Teachers Nationwide Can Share Classroom Materials, Learn From One Another

Smartstones Technology Gives Voice to Students Who Cannot Speak Themselves

Where Sports and Science Meet: San Francisco 49ers Expand Support of STEM With New Lab at Calif. HS

Technology On the Move: Heart Zones’ Wearable Monitors Put Fitness First in Phys Ed Classes

Can a Robot Help Teach Classics of Literature? Sphero’s Ed Uses Range From STEM to STEAM

Gamify the Classroom: Kahoot! Software Boosts Learning, and Teamwork, Through Quizzes

Fake News Isn’t Just an Internet Problem, It’s a Classroom Crisis. A New Push for Media Literacy

Dissect a Frog Without the Mess? Eon Brings Virtual Reality to Life in the Classroom

The Pokémon Go Effect: How Augmented Reality Could Reshape Classrooms Via Better Education Apps

The Gooroo App — Instant, On-Demand Tutors, Right to Your Dorm Room

Can You Translate That? New App Allows Parents, Teachers to Bridge Language Divide

Baton Rouge Floods: As Students Help Neighbors, Educators Rush to Reopen Schools — as Early as Wed.

This NYC Hospital Teacher Is Crowdfunding E-Readers for Sick Students Who Can’t Risk Handling Books

ClassDojo Announces the Launch of Student Stories: A New Way for Students to Share Their Classwork

Personalized Learning

Teach to One: Inside the Personalized Learning Program That Bill Gates Calls the ‘Future of Math’

Zaption: Changing the Way Students (and Teachers) Use Interactive Videos to Learn

First Robotics: A Building Competition That’s Now Gaining State-Level Support as In-Class Curriculum

CodeSpark: The California Startup That’s Using Apps and Games to Teach Coding to 5-Year-Olds

Super Bowl Surprise: Inside the Stadium That Will Host the Big Game, a First-Of-Its-Kind STEM Curriculum

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