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In response to a rise in theft and cheating on paper exams, most Advanced Placement exams will move to a digital format next month, which proponents say will improve accessibility as well as the overall test experience. -
The contest pooled questions in a variety of disciplines and asked students to answer them solely using AI. The responses could reveal which kinds of assignments are better protected against unsanctioned AI use.
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Two statewide proposals, one in the House and one in the Senate, offer competing ideas for how to limit phone use in K-12. One would leave it to school boards to decide specifics, and the other stipulates more specifics.
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After 10 years in development, the Madera Cyber Innovation Center just north of Colorado Springs will accommodate 1,400 students annually as they learn to simulate and combat cyber threats from hostile nations.
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A retiring director of digital learning for Carlisle Area School District, Pennsylvania, reflects on a career's worth of technological transformation, from early video conferences to 1:1 devices to AI.
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The nonprofit National Writing Project and online writing platform NoRedInk are starting an online information-sharing community and offering free webinars for educators on the impact of AI on writing instruction.
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The new Center for Leadership, Institutional Metrics and Best Practices run by the nonprofit Complete College America will give colleges tools to track predictors of success and incorporate them into strategic planning.
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The Meritocracy Fellowship program at Palantir, a controversial tech company owned by Peter Thiel, offers an internship in place of traditional higher education. Students see both advantages and disadvantages.
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The State Bar has petitioned the court to adjust hundreds of test scores due to technical problems, and the court is demanding answers from the State Bar about how and why it used AI to develop exam questions.
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Iowa City Community School District is maintaining its 1:1 student device program, but grades K-5 will keep theirs at school after parents expressed concerns about excessive screen time for young students.
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Education leaders said the order creates important momentum, but they expressed concerns about sustainable funding and whether ed-tech leaders will have a seat at the table to help shape the directive’s initiatives.
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The State Bar of California stirred some controversy when it disclosed that some questions on this year's exam were developed with the assistance of AI by ACS Ventures, the State Bar's independent psychometrician.
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Money from the Oregon CHIPS Act, a package of legislation from 2023, will help Oregon colleges and universities hire artificial intelligence faculty and technical experts.
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After Baltimore City Public Schools discovered that a ransomware attack in February had compromised data, it hired Austin-based CrowdStrike Inc. to provide a cybersecurity forensic analysis and assessment for $160,000.
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The university's pilot program, which will use virtual teaching assistants to explain course concepts to students and guide them through problems, will contribute to a study on virtual TAs working across 26 campuses.
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Through separate partnerships with the two companies, the education nonprofit ISTE+ASCD hopes to make social media more accountable and students more knowledgeable about healthy tech use.
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More than one million American women were working in STEM occupations in 2023, only representing 26 percent of the STEM workforce, according to a networking organization. In 2016, they were 21 percent.
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A school board in North Carolina is debating whether the district should accept responsibility when a student's confiscated cellphone is stolen, lost or damaged.
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A ransomware attack in February compromised private information of employees and students at Baltimore City Public Schools, and the city’s state’s attorney’s office was targeted in March.
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In the face of stress and uncertainty around the future of higher education, the CIO of a community college in Oregon suggests a CARES framework of priorities: communicate, adapt, relationships, empower and stay calm.
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Teachers of Tomorrow, a national alternative teacher certification program, recognized a New Haven Elementary School teacher for creating her own STEM curriculum for developmental kindergarten through fifth grade.
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