Biden-Harris Administration Awards More Than $13 Million to Improve Access to Child Care for Student Parents
The Biden-Harris Administration today announced more than $13 million in grants to 34 institutions of higher education to support or establish high quality, campus-based child care programs to meet the needs of student parents with low incomes enrolled on their...
U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Resolves Restraint and Seclusion Compliance Review of Folsom Cordova Unified School District in California
Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it has resolved a compliance review of the Folsom Cordova Unified School District in California to ensure that the district’s restraint and seclusion policies and practices do not...
Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $11 Million to Expand and Support Parent Education and Family Engagement Efforts
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing $11.4 million in grants to 12 organizations in states and school districts across the country to improve and strengthen family engagement programs. This investment builds on the U.S.
SANPO: A Scene understanding, Accessibility, Navigation, Pathfinding, & Obstacle avoidance dataset
Posted by Sagar M. Waghmare, Senior Software Engineer, and Kimberly Wilber, Software Engineer, Google Research, Perception Team As most people navigate their everyday world, they process visual input from the environment using an eye-level perspective. Unlike robots...
The Biden-Harris Administration Announces Technical Assistance Centers to Accelerate Learning and Support Student Wellbeing
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) today announced technical assistance centers to support state and local efforts to support and enhance student wellbeing, academic success, and school safety. These centers further the Department's commitment to accelerate...
Secretary Cardona Appoints New Members to National Assessment Governing Board
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona today announced the appointment of 11 prominent education leaders – seven new members and four reappointed members – to the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the Nation's Report Card.
New tools are available to help reduce the energy that AI models devour
When searching for flights on Google, you may have noticed that each flight's carbon-emission estimate is now presented next to its cost. It's a way to inform customers about their environmental impact, and to let them factor this information into their...
Scalable spherical CNNs for scientific applications
Posted by Carlos Esteves and Ameesh Makadia, Research Scientists, Google Research, Athena Team Typical deep learning models for computer vision, like convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViT), process signals assuming planar (flat) spaces. For...
Biden-Harris Administration Announces an Additional $9 Billion in Student Debt Relief
The Biden-Harris administration announced today that an additional 125,000 Americans have been approved for $9 billion in debt relief through fixes the U.S. Department of Education has made to income-driven repayment (IDR) and Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF),...
AI copilot enhances human precision for safer aviation
Imagine you're in an airplane with two pilots, one human and one computer. Both have their “hands” on the controllers, but they're always looking out for different things. If they're both paying attention to the same thing, the human gets to steer. But if the human...