Education

Hiring students to help repair school-owned devices is one way districts are ensuring the sustainability of their 1-to-1 programs and extending the lifespan of their devices, especially as students are damaging them.

As part of California's $4.7 billion program to address the teen mental health crisis, Los Angeles Unified School District will make free mental health services accessible to all its K-12 students through Hazel Health.

Students aged 13 and up at Baltimore County Public Schools have free access to the online therapy messaging platform Talkspace, which will give them an assessment and match them with a licensed therapist.

The Oklahoma State University Polytech initiative will increase STEM programming across the OSU system, starting with the expansion of OSUIT in Tulsa, and solicit guidance on academic programming from industry leaders.

With funding from the National Science Foundation’s AI-CARING program, a Carnegie Mellon professor and two research assistants developed a free, open-source tool for teaching middle schoolers how artificial neurons work.

A junior at Indiana University built an app that checks in with users daily and learns more about them as they talk to it, referring them to therapists if needed. He sold the app to a Silicon Valley tech firm.

U.S. Department of Agriculture doled out seven grants across Illinois to help rural schools and colleges to buy equipment that includes distance-learning equipment, classrooms and spaces for mental health treatment.

A trio of students from Forbes Road Career and Technology Center in Pennsylvania have spent the past year traveling to libraries, senior centers and schools with a presentation about cybersecurity and online scams.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine says a federal digital literacy curriculum is necessary to address the harmful impacts of social media on youth. The recommendations will be shared with Congress, the U.S. Department of Education, and social media companies.

Most U.S. schools reported having Wi-Fi access in every classroom in the 2020-21 school year, according to data collected by the U.S. Department of Education released last month. The figure was 96 percent in New York.

The Orangeburg County School District in South Carolina unveiled the new Esports lab at its Career and Technology Center last week, a classroom space that has been renovated to include 21 gaming stations.

Artificial intelligence is having an impact across disciplines and campuses in Bay Area, where both students and professors are applying the technology and learning about its implications for their fields.

Amid the pace and constancy of technological change, it’s easy to overlook how transformational the digital era has been — and how the ability to pause, rewind, record, search and share has revolutionized education.

As part of a developing innovation district intended to train future generations for technology jobs, ASU is investing heavily in educational and research facilities that will be open to tech industry partners.

In 2024, California State University, Sacramento will open The National Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Education to train current and future teachers to use the technology ethically and effectively.

WVU is putting a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education toward a facility where students can practice virtually testing cybersecurity concepts and get hands-on experience with recent threats.

An initiative by the digital equity nonprofit Digitunity sent devices to over 41,000 students since 2021, but the success of the program hinges on tech support, device refurbishment and digital literacy training.

Southern Methodist University student Trevor Gicheru created an app, Nurovant AI, to generate quizzes, flashcards, summaries and other materials based on audio recordings of his professor's lectures.