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Developing policies to establish phone-free schools and a playbook for artificial intelligence, including curriculum, rules and professional learning, are among Connecticut's legislative priorities for 2026. -
Proposed bills in the Kansas House and Senate share a common goal, but they differ in ways that could affect how districts implement the rules, including how the school day is defined and how devices would be stored.
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A policy advocate from the American Civil Liberties Union warned FETC attendees last week that fear-based marketing and limited empirical evidence are driving district adoption of student surveillance tools.
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A free event organized by St. Clair County Community College in Michigan aims to get students interested in STEM with virtual reality experiences, robotics, virtual anatomy dissection, rocket launches and other exhibits.
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A Texas district's guidance counselors hosted an event to make parents aware of how students can be affected by social media and what their options are for managing technology's opportunities and pitfalls.
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Adam Garry, senior director of education strategy at Dell, says in a Q&A that schools could better prepare students by developing an ideal portrait of a graduate and moving to portfolio assessments instead of tests.
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The State University of New York's Adirondack campus says the first Black woman to graduate from its cybersecurity program will do so this year. It's a field that has historically included few women and Black students.
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University officials say they've identified the recent problem with Internet connectivity across campus, and they have no evidence it was due to a cybersecurity incident or that personal information has been compromised.
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The university is still without network services after shutting them down last week due to a possible cyber attack, leaving students without access to study materials and forcing professors to reach out on Facebook.
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Colleges and universities in Pennsylvania have partnered with technology and aviation companies, engineering firms and other industry leaders to fill vacant positions in direly understaffed fields like cybersecurity.
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Funds from the Maine Jobs & Recovery Grant program will go toward new facilities and expanding career and technical education programs in fields like welding, electrical work and building construction.
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A public tribal land-grant community college in Minnesota will use federal grant money to upgrade Internet service and security, learning software and computers, and provide service plans for students on and off campus.
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A regional career and technology high school in Pennsylvania has contracted with Kooth Inc. to provide voluntary, virtual mental health care services in a state-funded pilot program.
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PocketLab’s Online Notebook will pair with a learning platform from HMH, giving users access to a cloud-based tool for logging and analyzing data and collaborating on scientific investigations.
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Given skyrocketing demand for youth mental health services, Texas officials are trying to expand school-based virtual therapy options, but it's a challenge given the national shortage of mental-health professionals.
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Iowa's public universities are issuing guidance, forming committees, crafting assignments and churning out research on how best to take advantage of ChatGPT and how to guard against its limitations and potential harms.
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The largest secondary school district in California shut down its Internet and student information system after noticing problems with Microsoft systems. It will take weeks to confirm whether personal information was compromised.
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An all-female Catholic high school in Ohio is trying to give its students a leg up in health sciences with immersive 3D virtual reality software that visualizes the human body at different scales and positions.
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Restrictions against phone use are more common in private schools, where many students see them not as a diktat from above but as a collective choice for a certain way of life that they even agree to help enforce.
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The first school district in Washington state with its own virtual reality headsets is using them to boost student engagement, offer new outlets for activity and complement lessons in game and software design.
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Stanislaus State is bringing networks back online after shutting them down last week due to suspicious activity, which caused major disruption across campus. It's still investigating and has not specified what happened.
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