The computer-applications teachers started incorporating lessons about AI into their curricula during the 2023-24 school year ...

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The numbers are trending up: Per a summer 2021 survey conducted on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, 84% of residents have broadband connections in their homes, up from 70% in 2019. Part of the ...

In his Commentary “The Democratization of Scientific Knowledge” (Feb. 7, 2007), Dennis M. Bartels argues that our national scientific priority should be developing universal technical literacy, not ...

The Open Data Institute (ODI) has published a report on data literacy and government approaches to data that criticises an over-emphasis on technical data analysis skills at the expense of ...

For generations, teachers have been showing their students how to become informed citizens. The instruction hasn’t always been explicit and direct, but it has been part of countless lessons. Middle ...

On April 10 and 11 Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat in the Congressional hot seat facing hours of questioning about his business model, Russian malefactors and violations of privacy. While ...

About 93% of U.S. adults access the internet, and 80% of those search for health information, despite low levels of ...

An Arlington-based IT specialist is launching a new tech support company seeking to troubleshoot problems and help people build technical competence. Mahboba “Maya” Akhtarzadah is the founder and CEO ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A new literacy and workforce training program was awarded more than $1 million from the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity. The Literacy Center of West Michigan ...

After years of declining test scores, the Maine Department of Education is introducing a plan to bolster math and literacy ...