Digital Transformation

A new AI-powered tool from the ed-tech company Edia tracks student attendance and family contact information, sending parents a personalized text within minutes of an unexpected absence.

The six winners of Harvard's fifth annual Zaentz Early Education Innovation Challenge offered ideas to grow child-care businesses, support early childhood educators, simplify applications for food assistance and more.

Pennsylvania State University is the new home of the U.S. Supreme Court Database, a public, searchable repository of the 30,000 cases that have been decided by the court since 1791.

Studies have found students at Pennsylvania's cyber charter schools, which are run by unelected boards of nonprofit trustees, don't perform as well as traditional school district students, yet they rarely get shut down.

Cyber charter schools are drawing students, and therefore state dollars, away from the local districts that fund them, raising concerns among rural district leaders about whether the financial burden is sustainable.

At a time when the incidence rates of autism and behavioral issues are on the rise, online charter schools are becoming an increasingly popular option, but local districts warn there are downsides for students.

A Kentucky school district launched a new after-school virtual tutoring system in August, available to district students on school-issued computers, staffed by the district's own teachers and hosted by Google Meet.

The private security firm Servius Group will apply AI to data on bullying, student absenteeism and online harassment and conduct a “cognitive analysis” of students to identify early warning signs.

The county is already home to six operational Best Buy Teen Tech Centers, but that number is slated to double. The facilities give middle and high school students a chance to learn tech skills that could translate to jobs in entertainment, fashion and other L.A.-centric industries.

Rhode Island teacher Benjamin Hamill beta tested four AI tools now available for math educators in the Kiddom classroom management system. He said the automated feedback tool gave him a “huge quality-of-life upgrade.”

A Ph.D. student at Columbia University created Curiously, a tool for teachers to build and customize AI assistants for their particular subjects and classroom needs, even if they have no coding expertise.

Two months after a student died on campus, the largest public school system in Texas is using a new life safety equipment management system to track certifications for CPR, first aid, AEDs and Stop the Bleed kits.

Students at George Washington Carver High School developed a free app that estimates cost of individual colleges, financial aid eligibility, loan options, repayment plans and future earnings.

Researchers at Stanford University are designing Clinical Mind AI to be a customizable chatbot that can function as a virtual patient with which medical students can interact and practice forming diagnoses.

Funded by the American Rescue Plan and a federal grant, the flight simulator and virtual reality desktop simulators could provide career-focused training in response to a growing demand for pilots.

Delays with the website to apply for New York City public middle schools stemmed from an update by the Division of Instructional and Information Technology, which compromised other features and slowed down the system.

Data from the research organization foundry10 says roughly a third of teachers have used artificial intelligence to write recommendation letters, although far more teachers said they didn't use it for that purpose.

A new agreement between two state education associations and the recently merged ed-tech companies Munetrix and SchoolData Solutions offers discounted data management and planning services for Illinois school districts.