Lauraine Langreo

Washington, D.C.

Reporter @educationweek | K-12 edtech, student wellness, future of work & learning environments | She/her. 🇵🇭 @EdWeekUnion @aaja @edwriters

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How Schools and Businesses Can Work Better Together

2 days ago | edweek.org | Lauraine Langreo

One of the biggest challenges for districts when it comes to providing high-quality career-readiness programs is facilitating partnerships to increase career-exploration opportunities for students. Districts need to coordinate and collaborate with dozens of employers, community-based organizations, colleges and universities, and local government agencies to come up with internships, apprenticeships, job shadowing, and other work-based learning opportunities for students.
Chromebooks or Cellphones: Which Are the Bigger Classroom Distraction?

6 days ago | edweek.org | Lauraine Langreo

The vast majority of school districts in the United States now provide school-issued laptops and tablets to students. But many educators now say the devices have become major classroom distractions. Classroom learning devices—such as Chromebooks and iPads—have become a major source of distraction, cutting into instructional time, a recent EdWeek Research Center survey shows.
PowerSchool Paid a Hacker's Ransom. Now Cyber Criminals Are Threatening Schools

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Lauraine Langreo

NowYou might be used to the Federal Bureau of Investigation issuing warnings about critical ransomware attacks, or advising do not click on anything as new phishing threats emerge, maybe even the danger from armed response units posed by a rise in internet swatting attacks. But that doesn’t mean the …
PowerSchool Paid a Hacker's Ransom. Now Cyber Criminals Are Threatening Schools

1 week ago | edweek.org | Lauraine Langreo |Arianna Prothero

School districts that were affected by a PowerSchool data hack in December are now facing extortion attempts by cyber criminals, according to the K-12 ed-tech company. PowerSchool, which runs the most commonly used student information system in U.S. schools, had a cybersecurity breach that exposed the sensitive personal information of millions of students and educators.
Schools Brace for Tariff-Related Price Increases of Chromebooks and iPads

1 week ago | edweek.org | Lauraine Langreo

The technology department of the Peninsula school district in Gig Harbor, Wash., started stockpiling new student and staff devices as soon as the word “tariffs” began circulating, said district chief information officer Kris Hagel. The 9,000-student district was already hearing from regular vendors who were saying they wouldn’t be able to hold the price for long. So to ensure the district could pay the same price it usually does for the devices, Hagel’s team rushed to get their purchase orders in.
How This Schooling Model Puts Career Preparation First

2 weeks ago | edweek.org | Lauraine Langreo

A growing number of districts are shifting away from a near-exclusive focus on college preparedness and instead providing opportunities for students to explore and engage with various career pathways. The shift comes as more families are questioning the return on investment from a traditional, four-year college education. Policymakers and industry leaders are also working to ensure there is a pipeline for students to end up in high-demand jobs.
Do Schools Have the Resources to Execute Trump's Executive Order on AI?

2 weeks ago | govtech.com | Lauraine Langreo |Arianna Prothero

This was one of seven executive orders Trump signed on April 23 focused on education, including one on "ensuring commonsense school discipline policies" and a handful focused on higher education institutions. Some educators and education organizations have welcomed the order, saying that AI literacy for educators and students is important and much needed. (TNS) — A new executive order signed by President Donald Trump calls for infusing artificial intelligence throughout K-12 education.
Trump Wants Teachers Trained How to Use AI. Will It Work?

3 weeks ago | edweek.org | Lauraine Langreo |Arianna Prothero

A new executive order signed by President Donald Trump calls for infusing artificial intelligence throughout K-12 education. A major focus of that plan is training teachers on how to integrate AI into their instruction and workflows. This was one of seven executive orders Trump signed on April 23 focused on education, including one on “ensuring commonsense school discipline policies” and a handful focused on higher education institutions.
What Trump's Draft Executive Order on AI Could Mean for Schools

3 weeks ago | edweek.org | Arianna Prothero |Lauraine Langreo

A draft executive order from President Donald Trump aims to integrate artificial intelligence across K-12 education, with potentially significant ramifications for schools. The order would instruct federal agencies to take steps to teach students how to use AI, train teachers to incorporate it into their tasks, and partner with the private sector to develop relevant programs in schools, according to the Washington Post, which obtained a copy of the draft order and first reported about it.
Concord Consortium Studying AI for Math Education

3 weeks ago | govtech.com | Lauraine Langreo

The nonprofit educational research and development organization has partnered with the Florida Virtual School and the University of Florida to provide an "Artificial Intelligence in Math" supplemental certification program for middle and high school students taking Algebra 1. The program, which began April 7, will introduce students to the foundational principles of AI that intersect with core math topics.