GeekWire

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Seattle Public Schools issued an update to families in the district on Friday morning about a so-called “TikTok challenge” involving threats of school violence on the video-sharing platform. 17, has gained national attention and put school districts and police departments on alert across the country.

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MARCH 6, 2024

A high school student using technology for homework assignments. of the Washington’s high school students attending either public or state-tribal schools took a computer science class, according to state data. Roughly half of the public or state-tribal schools even offer a computer science class. Last year, 8.4%

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Amazon Photo) The Bezos Day 1 Families Fund announced $117 million in grants on Tuesday to organizations that aid families experiencing homelessness. The Families Fund is part of a $2 billion Bezos Day One Fund created by Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos in 2018. Jeff Bezos. and Puerto Rico. million, or less than 0.1%

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Remote back-to-school in September 2020 includes an iPad and a kitten. A recent study estimated that in Washington, 15% of students lack needed digital devices while 22% don’t have adequate high-speed internet connections — though a state expert says roughly half of families here are without reliable broadband.

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OCTOBER 28, 2023

Jose Luis Alvarado, dean of the Fordham Graduate School of Education, has written an excellent counter-narrative to those saying that tertiary education doesn’t matter any more, om the deep inequity of the anti-college movement. He shares how he was told at school he shouldn’t aspire to going to college.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Remote back-to-school in September includes an iPad and a kitten. Seattle Public Schools will continue remote education through the first semester until Jan. It also consulted with the Seattle Education Association, Seattle Council PTSA, and the Principals’ Association of Seattle Schools. SPS first closed schools in March.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2024

We had some mid-size life sciences companies, and people knew about Microsoft, but Amazon had only just started selling books, Google wasn’t yet a company, and Mark Zuckerberg was in middle school. In every study, it’s what the kids and their families are asking for. Guaranteed Admission. Washington College Grant.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

From high school counselor to startup founder Much like the students he aims to serve, Booker’s own journey has taken a series of unexpected twists. Unified School District. The startup spirit is part of Booker’s family. ” His family was also one reason Booker decided to move to Seattle in May of last year.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ford and self-driving car startup Argo AI are conducting a pilot in Miami to deliver school supplies to families. Read More.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Horton herself drew inspiration from her mother, who went back to school to become a computer programmer after their family moved to Canada from the Philippines at a time when the ratios of women to men in IT were even worse than they are today — especially in mainframe computing.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

The first $500 million collected goes toward education and child care programs, while the remainder is designated for school construction projects. Schools around the state are struggling to fund education. Seattle Public Schools, for example, faces a $105 million budget shortfall for the 2024-25 school year.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Islander Middle School esports team members gather around for a Super Smash Bros. Photos courtesy of Ian Henry / Mercer Island School District) I turned off Interstate 90 and climbed the curving streets into Mercer Island toward Islander Middle School (IMS). session during a recent practice.

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JUNE 1, 2023

University of Washington Photo) A student-led startup at the University of Washington wants to help high school students apply to college through a platform that includes educational content and an AI counseling tool. Cledge’s video content educates families on college-readiness strategies. It’ll be free for all users.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2024

Left: Voyager Capital’s James Newell — a former UW safety — with his family at a recent University of Washington football game. Michigan gets the edge in PitchBook’s latest annual university rankings, which compares schools by assessing the amount of venture capital raised over the past decade by alumni entrepreneurs.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

(Twitter Photo via Seattle Public Schools). See below for back-to-school pictures submitted by GeekWire readers.]. ” As Seattle Public Schools kicked off the new school year on Friday with another go at online teaching and learning, technical issues plagued the experience for many students trying to connect from home.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As the school year kicks off and kids head back to the classroom (in-person and virtually), parents working from home are breathing a collective sigh of relief. While the transition back to school can be a positive time, it does pose its own set of challenges for parents in the cybersecurity field.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Youth and Family Empowerment Division of the city’s Human Services Department is managing the partnership. “What we’ll see, I believe, is this dollar investment is actually driving better family outcomes, or better employment outcomes, or better graduation rates, or whatever it may be,” Pesce said.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2024

(BigStock Photo) Washington this week became the fifth state to issue a roadmap to guide educators, students and families in using artificial intelligence in public schools.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Any remainder is used for school construction projects. The tax targets Washington’s wealthiest residents, with the first $500 million directed toward education and child care programs.

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GeekWire

JULY 22, 2020

The superintendent for Seattle Public Schools Wednesday announced that she supported continuing entirely remote instruction when school resumes in September. The school board will vote on the recommendation from Superintendent Denise Juneau at its regular meeting on Aug. Providing meals for students and families in need.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

When school went virtual last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, parents’ carefully forged limits on technology went out the window. With this fall’s return to in-person learning, many families — including my own — are struggling to renegotiate what their kids’ tech use looks like. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler).

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JANUARY 20, 2023

Ramsey, who served as CEO of the University of Washington School of Medicine and UW Medicine for 25 years until stepping down in June. Other families have also committed contributions to the deanship. The deanship will honor recently retired UW Medicine dean Paul G.

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GeekWire

MAY 31, 2023

International School, with the two sisters who inspired her “Doodle for Google” contest entry. Rebecca, a student at the International School in Bellevue, Wash., Rebecca, a student at the International School in Bellevue, Wash., Rebecca Wu of the Bellevue (Wash.) state and territory winners.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

Unconfirmed threats on TikTok led some schools to cancel classes | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. School districts across the United States are cancelling classes on Friday, December 17th due to reports of threats that are supposedly being made on TikTok. Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) December 16, 2021.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

who support families back home in countries such as the Philippines, India, El Salvador, and others. Speaking at a Harvard Business School panel earlier this month in Seattle , Oppenheimer said Remitly is looking to new technologies such as AI to boost customer support automation and prevent fraud.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Jay Inslee tour Mary’s Place Family Center, located in an Amazon building in Seattle. Jeff Bezos’ Day 1 Families Fund on Wednesday announced the latest round of grantees who are working to help U.S. families experiencing homelessness. million for Portland Homeless Family Solutions, Portland.

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MAY 18, 2021

My early computing days were spent using the family PC, a hulking tower and beefy monitor that sat atop a desk in the dining room. My siblings and I took turns using it to work on papers for school, chat on AIM… Read more. It was not a cute machine and you had absolutely no privacy when you used it, but it belonged to everyone.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The most interesting thing is Apple’s new Family Setup service, which lets parents provision an Apple Watch for their kids to use. Even if you’re not a parent, the new Family Setup service is interesting because it gives us an idea of what a truly standalone Apple Watch could be. Family Setup is slightly different.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Amazon is expanding its Right Now Needs Fund , which was established in 2018 with a $2 million investment to the Alliance for Education to help Seattle Public Schools students meet basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing, school supplies and more. million for the non-profit, to aid students across 104 schools.

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

The shift to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic caused plenty of technological headaches for families and educators. But one large company and one small one provide a glimpse into how some tech products and services were intended to ease the burden of online education and ultimately help with the return to open schools.

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GeekWire

JULY 19, 2023

Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering’s Startup Program flashes “W” signs for the UW. Allen School Photo) Universities and their computer science and engineering programs have been striving for years to boost the diversity of their student population, achieving varied levels of success. So the U.S.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, over 850 million children across the world are now being shut out of schools and encouraged to take their education to their homes in order to combat the spread of the virus, whilst also keeping up with their school work. - Information Technology Blog. Teaching isn’t just refined to the classroom.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 23, 2021

In a multi-part tweet , Partovi shared his family’s story following Khomeini’s rise to power, Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Iran, living in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq War and his immigration to the U.S. evacuation and Taliban takeover. six years after the revolution. six years after the revolution. ”

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2023

The philanthropic organization, co-founded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his wife Connie, is giving $38 million to the UW College of Education to support more than 1,500 scholarships over the next eight years for students pursuing bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees and high school internships in early childhood education.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 11, 2021

On Monday, Microsoft's Surface family of devices gained a new member in the form of the Surface Pro 7+, a model designed specifically for schools and business customers and based on the successful formula of the original Surface Pro 7 from 2017.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

The “Find Food Support” site includes a food locator tool powered by Google Maps which people can use to search for their nearest food bank, food pantry, or school lunch program pickup site in their community. Google announced a new website designed to be a “one-stop shop” for people with food insecurity.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

RELATED: Super Bowl ad roundup: Travolta sings T-Mobile’s praises; Google’s fix is in; and more tech spots The ad follows the relatable story of a family who adopted a dog during the pandemic, showing how life for the humans and the dog was much different with everyone working and schooling from home.

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