Education

On their annual tour of the state, administrators from the University of Illinois system are meeting with schools and local leaders to coordinate efforts to help families and small businesses get high-speed Internet.

The nonprofit College Track has partnered with 14 universities to offer online courses and resources to first-generation college students and help them navigate the transition from secondary to higher education.

As general artificial intelligence threatens to upend years of advice telling students that coding was the essential skill of the future, new skills might come to the fore, such as the ability to think conceptually.

Lakeside High School in Ohio is using virtual-reality technology to simulate hands-on experiences in various subjects and allow students to explore topics, places and content without leaving campus.

Matt Massey, president of the Alabama School for Cyber Technology and Engineering, is leading an independent state high school that focuses on cybersecurity and engineering and has recruited 333 students since 2020.

Ahead of Banned Books Week this week, the nonprofit EveryLibrary Institute published a spreadsheet of book titles and authors that have been targeted by parents across the U.S. trying to get them banned from schools.

Survey data reveals rural libraries are significantly less likely to offer STEAM programming than their city or suburban counterparts. Here’s how small-town librarians are breaking past funding and resource roadblocks.

A computer science industrial engineering student at West Virginia University is building GPTeacher, a classroom tool that guides students toward answers to problems by creating a series of gateways that they must solve.

Given examples of college-admissions essays generated by ChatGPT, some counselors found them slightly more polished than the average student essay but also somewhat generic and missing details or sensory descriptions.

One-on-one education for all is not logistically feasible, but advances in generative artificial intelligence might enable focused, mastery-based learning tailored to each student's ability and pace.

In a virtual panel discussion Friday, several professors shared their experiences with having students use generative AI for writing assignments and recommended that students be allowed to learn by trial and error.

A public community college in New York will use money from the Economic Development Administration to build a new Applied Technology Education Center and develop classes in automotive technology.

Montgomery County Community College received an award from Cisco Networking Academy, a global IT education program, for an associate degree program in information technology.

In a presentation to the Greeley-Evans District 6 Board of Education, an artificial intelligence task force recommended against an outright ban, believing that AI training and resource development are on the horizon.

Officials say the new corporate-sponsored lab will serve as a focal point for construction technology research and education, training students on Trimble’s geospatial, construction and software tools.

An educational consultant describes several specific examples, such as having students analyze and improve chatbot-generated essays, coach the chatbot to do better, and test what AI can and can’t do.

Responding to a fatal shooting on campus last month, officials at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are exploring technological solutions to monitor campus and make it more secure.

Three years after Lockport City School District purchased a facial- and object-recognition system from Aegis, state legislation has put a moratorium on the technology, and the district is complying.