Education

The Federal Communications Commission recently extended E-Rate funding to cover WiFi on school buses, but some Republicans say this will raise fees on telecommunications providers and not improve learning outcomes.

Professors at Wilkes University, Kings College, the University of Scranton and others are exploring AI's potential to help students refine their writing, and to help multilingual learners and those with disabilities.

Colorado House Republicans want to investigate why the state Department of Higher Education did not disclose a major data breach it discovered on June 14 until Aug. 4, beyond the legally required 30-day window.

The Center for Emerging Artificial Intelligence Systems (CEAIS) at the University at Albany is a research initiative with IBM to study the next generation of AI and how supercomputing tech might improve its performance.

Vernier Science Education officials say their new program could accelerate STEM education past pre-pandemic levels and eventually change or at least improve the way those subjects are taught.

The Cullman County Board of Education in Alabama approved a five-year contract with Spot.ai to integrate with the district's roughly 800 security cameras so administrators can access them from a centralized hub.

Stanford University is looking into which of its systems and data were impacted by a cyber attack last week after the ransomware group Akira threatened to post 430 gigabytes of its internal data to the dark web.

The Colorado Department of Higher Education discovered a massive data breach June 14 and did not report it to the attorney general until early August, past the 30-day window required by state law.

Project Tomorrow's recent Speak Up research, which focused on use of classroom technology and involved 50,000 respondents, found it's more often used to support adult management goals than student skill-building.

Both states are leveraging digital platforms to centralize job prospects, skills data and educational opportunities in the hopes of creating strong talent pipelines to address job access, training and education barriers for residents.

The Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether Evolv Technologies, which has sold security scanners to Atlanta-area school districts, exaggerated in marketing materials what its products can do.

A University of Nebraska student invented an app that helped decipher the writing on ancient papyrus unearthed from volcanic ash, exemplifying what might come of a tech-savvy generation open to collaboration.

A matter of weeks after an unspecified cybersecurity incident impacted the email network of Clark County School District in Washington, some parents received emails with their children's photos and private information.

Startup companies looking to make inroads in the U.S. education market are eligible for $100,000 and free training under the new AWS Education Accelerator initiative. The application deadline is Nov. 17.

California is set to become the first state to coordinate competency-based programs across eight community colleges using state-backed curricula. Professors say these programs help working students, but they come with trade-offs.

Verizon has reached out to Houston Independent School District to extend the terms of the Digital Promise program by which students and teachers get free devices and data plans, but the district has not responded.

A federal grant to the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute will help build a secure manufacturing tech hub to research new technologies, increase businesses competitiveness and grow a regional workforce.

Researchers at Northwestern University used artificial intelligence to create a program that designed, iterated and refined a new walking robot from scratch, based on a simple prompt, within 26 seconds.