Educational technology
Faith, left, with some of her fellow pupils Julia, Nana, Yaw, Alexandra, Leandra, and Amariah, right play on a rope swing at the Holy Family Catholic Primary School during a break, in Greenwich, London, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. Holy Family, like schools across Britain, is racing to offset the disruption caused by COVID-19, which has hit kids from low-income and ethnic minority families hardest. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
London school fights COVID fallout with laptops, bean bags

By Danica Kirka Jun. 01, 2021 02:23 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 19, 2020, file photo, Anna Louisa, 18, holds her school-issued laptop at the Lower East Side Preparatory School in New York. About 8% of New York's public school students did not have a laptop or other device to use for remote learning in the first months of the school year, and about 6% lacked adequate internet access, survey results released Wednesday, May 5, 2021, show. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Survey: Many NY students began year without device, internet

By Carolyn Thompson May. 05, 2021 06:40 PM EDT

Judge: New Mexico must give at-home students fast internet

By Cedar Attanasio Apr. 30, 2021 08:29 PM EDT
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has ordered education officials to provide computers and high-speed internet to students who still don’t have them in...

State orders Chicago to fix special education in detention

By Kelly Garcia Of Injustice Watch Apr. 24, 2021 01:01 AM EDT
CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois State Board of Education has ordered Chicago Public Schools to fix problems with special education services for students at the...

Karmen Bastyur, a 22 year old Hungarian Roma woman, lifts her daughter Fruzsina after giving her a bath in the family home which lacks running water in Bodvaszilas, Hungary, Monday, April 12,2021. Many students from Hungary's Roma minority do not have access to computers or the internet and are struggling to keep up with online education during the pandemic. Surveys show that less than half of Roma families in Hungary have cable and mobile internet and 13% have no internet at all. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)
Hungary's poor Roma children struggle with digital education

By Justin Spike Apr. 20, 2021 02:53 AM EDT

Benedict College President Roslyn Clark Artis talks to South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster at a news conference in Columbia, S.C., on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, announcing eight new community computer labs. McMaster said that $6 million in coronavirus federal aid dollars would be spent on the labs, which will be located near broadband deserts across South Carolina. (AP Photo/Michelle Liu)
SC gov: $6 mil in COVID-19 money going to free computer labs

By Michelle Liu Mar. 30, 2021 04:01 PM EDT

Graciela Leahy, 13, an eighth grader at Ohio's Columbus Gifted Academy, works on her computer in her bedroom, in Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 23, 2021, to begin a stretch of nearly six straight hours at her desk. A year later in the pandemic, the unplanned experiment with distance learning continues for thousands of students like Leahy who have yet to set foot back in classrooms. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
'It's exhausting.' A year of distance learning wears thin

By Jeff Amy, Kantele Franko, Cedar Attanasio, And Carolyn Thompson Mar. 12, 2021 07:08 AM EST

A student cleans his hands with hand sanitizer as educators welcome students on the first day of class at Lake Harbor Middle School with coronavirus restrictions Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, in Mandeville, La. St. Tammany Parish schools are opening with a quarter of students returning to school each day this week to assist in coronavirus precautions along with temperature checks, hand sanitizing at the door and face masks. (Max Becherer/The Advocate via AP)
Louisiana public schools slow to use federal coronavirus aid

Feb. 02, 2021 01:18 PM EST

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020 file photo students of the Robert-Koch vocational college get advise by their teacher, wearing face masks in the classroom, during computer science lessons in Dortmund, Germany. The German government on Wednesday agreed on a strategy to boost the use of data for commercial purposes and signed a deal with state education authorities to fund laptops for teachers who have to work from home because of the virus lockdown. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, file)
Pushed by pandemic, Germany seeks to boost technology use

By Frank Jordans Jan. 27, 2021 10:39 AM EST

Rural schools struggling virtually push return to classroom

By Peter Cameron Of Wisconsin Watch Jan. 23, 2021 01:01 AM EST
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Andy and Amy Jo Hellenbrand live on a little farm in south-central Wisconsin where they raise corn, soybeans, wheat, heifers, chickens,...

Lawyers: New Mexico trying to comply with education needs

Jan. 08, 2021 12:54 PM EST
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Public Education Department is working with school districts and internet providers to expand broadband access in rural...

Editorial Roundup: Iowa

By The Associated Press Dec. 28, 2020 10:00 AM EST
Des Moines Register. Dec. 23, 2020. Editorial: State lawmakers should not meet in person until vaccines are available to most Iowans. In...

FILE - A child runs across a sidewalk in front of New York's City Hall decorated with graffiti in favor of keeping open public schools, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. A Google services outage this week and potential impacts from a snowstorm in the Northeast highlight the fragile chain of connectivity that's powering widespread remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic. One Ohio school superintendent called Monday's Google outage “the COVID version of a snow day." (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
Google glitch, snowstorm bring virtual learning frustrations

By Kantele Franko Dec. 16, 2020 01:50 PM EST

Education lawsuit demands internet for New Mexico students

By Cedar Attanasio Dec. 15, 2020 11:25 AM EST
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Lawyers representing New Mexico students say the state's attempts to provide internet access and learning devices to children are ...

Huntsville schools reopen after cyberattack minus computers

Dec. 08, 2020 08:52 AM EST
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Students have returned to class in one of Alabama’s largest school systems after a cyberattack shut down the system last week, but...

Cyberattack forces large Alabama school system to close

Dec. 02, 2020 01:09 PM EST
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — One of Alabama’s largest public education systems is closed because of what officials called a computer cyberattack involving...

State Superintendent Carey Wright, follows virus protocol and remains masked while speaking to lawmakers following a legislative hearing on distance learning and broadband for schools Wednesday, May 13, 2020, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. The impact of COVID-19 forced school closure statewide and use of the existing broadband system for learning proved to be taxing, especially in rural communities. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi schools receive computers for distance learning

By Emily Wagster Pettus Nov. 30, 2020 05:22 PM EST

Pinon High School science teacher James Gustafson teaches virtually from his empty classroom in Pinon, Ariz., on Sept. 24, 2020. Unlike their students, the school's teachers report to campus each day, careful to wear masks and keep space between them. (Megan Marples/Cronkite News via AP)
Navajo school, students fight to overcome amid COVID-19

By Anthony J. Wallace/Cronkite News Nov. 27, 2020 10:42 AM EST

A student carries a math book delivered by school bus driver Kelly Maestas along his rural route outside Cuba, N.M., Oct. 19, 2020. The switch to remote learning in rural New Mexico has left some students profoundly isolated — cut off from others and the grid by sheer distance. The school system is sending school buses to students' far-flung homes to bring them assignments, meals and a little human contact. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)
Cut off: School closings leave rural students isolated

By Cedar Attanasio Nov. 23, 2020 01:00 AM EST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020 file photo, A computer screen shows a Los Angeles Unified School District teacher during an online class at Boys & Girls Club of Hollywood in Los Angeles. Across the U.S., the pandemic has forced students to attend virtual school to prevent spread of the coronavirus. But the more we rely on technology, the bigger the consequences when gadgets or internet service let us down. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Q&A: How to handle technology issues with online school

By Tali Arbel Sep. 26, 2020 12:16 PM EDT