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Republican and Democratic leaders in the Kansas Senate have pre-filed a bipartisan bill that would require all public and private accredited school districts to adopt policies banning phones. -
Five students at Dow High School in Midland, Mich., have co-authored research about agriculture in space that will soon appear in a major scientific journal.
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Modernizing education with artificial intelligence is less about buying this or that new tool than about new processes, new applications for data analytics, and reorganizing instructional priorities around new norms.
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Nevada's largest school district will not put metal detectors at the entrances of select facilities this fall, as administrators felt the idea was not feasible and did not definitively address safety concerns.
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The nonprofit Consortium for School Networking’s online dashboard includes data on population demographics, financial information, Internet speeds and other metrics for states and counties across the U.S.
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What could have been a digital quagmire for California’s largest school district served as a chance to hone cyber response and gird its more than 250 applications used by some 1.6 million users.
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The proposal would create a new pilot program, allotting up to $200 million over three years, for schools and libraries to assess effective cybersecurity methods and implement advanced firewalls, among other needs.
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Officials at a Texas school district are taking a deliberative approach to bringing generative artificial intelligence to classrooms, sending staff for training and preparing to explain appropriate use to students.
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As with any powerful new technology, the potential for artificial intelligence to analyze large volumes of data and automate processes comes with a risk that it will be used for nefarious purposes.
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PowerSchool will add messaging, notification and paperless permission forms to its growing list of K-12 functions that already includes grading, registrations, finance and state reporting compliance.
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Company officials say Content Filter can help K-12 schools comply with CIPA and E-rate requirements. It uses a combination of keyword scans and AI-powered image and video checks to flag and block harmful material.
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A new ed-tech tool prompts students to stop and take a deep breath at different intervals, and allows teachers to time classroom activities so they can compare participation and productivity in different environments.
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A New York school district will hire an architectural firm to study what will be involved in the transition to an electric fleet of buses, including mileage, chargers, bus route characteristics and electrical capacity.
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Louisiana has earmarked $20 million for school security upgrades, at least some of which will go toward artificial intelligence software that monitors camera feeds to detect weapons and sends alerts to officials.
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Before a global cyber attack compromised data from New York schools in May, an audit by the state comptroller and a special commissioner of investigation had criticized the district for insufficient oversight.
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An outreach effort called AZ LEGIT aims to connect rural schools and agencies with cybersecurity tools and training, a threat-sharing communication system and incident response services from the National Guard.
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As part of the 30th annual Solar Car Challenge, high schoolers from Pasadena's Polytechnic School will race against other teams driving 1,400 miles from Texas to California in a solar-powered vehicle they built.
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The Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program at Utica Community Schools pairs technology professionals with computer science and cybersecurity programs to share their industry-level experience.
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In this year's annual "Chromebook Camp," the technology services director for a West Virginia school district helped teachers get acclimated with 3-D printing and Cricut, a computer application-aided cutting machine.
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Like the Internet and remote learning before it, artificial intelligence is part of a long history of technological upheavals in teaching and learning, and education leaders might benefit from lessons of the past.
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Among the education-related bills signed by Hawaii Gov. Josh Green this week was HB503, which calls upon the state board of education to assess when, and whether, to make computer science a graduation requirement.
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