By 2017, public school teachers' earnings topped the average in just Rhode Island. Since the early 1990s, public school teacher and staff earnings fell relative to the average worker in 42 states. The biggest relative drop came in Wisconsin, where pay is now only 90 percent of the workers' pay average statewide.

Color Quest: An ARt Adventure is a smartphone app developed to make health and nutrition fun to experience and explore. Once colored in, characters of fruits, vegetables and bodily organs are then activated using augmented reality technology.

Oconee County Schools in Georgia has chosen to expand its partnership with itslearning. The district piloted the learning management system with 80 teachers and ultimately chose to roll out the system districtwide.

A bill that would have authorized a Virginia state referendum, asking voters if they support a $3 billion bond issue for school construction and repairs, was rejected, while North Carolina senators say their new plan would raise $2 billion for school construction in the state.