Education

Thanks to years of updates, tools such as Power Point, Microsoft 365’s Present Live, Microsoft Immersive Reader and Google Translate have almost negated the need for extra teachers for English-language learners.

School administrators who use PowerSchool's Schoology Learning platform will have access to online tutoring programs offered through Skooli, which recruits licensed teachers for personalized one-on-one lessons.

A vendor used by the Georgia Teachers Retirement System to prevent benefit overpayments was part of the widely reported MOVEit hack, potentially impacting those who were paid benefits between March 1 and May 26.

The nonprofit National Institute for Innovation and Technology is working with BOCES and two dozen school districts in the Albany area to upgrade their technical education curricula to suit specific industry needs.

A group of low-income students of color is suing California education officials for not providing the means to learn from home. They're not seeking damages but court-ordered measures to close the statewide learning gap.

Addressing the AImpactEd Summit on Monday, digital strategist and education author Dan Fitzpatrick stressed the need for teachers to familiarize themselves with AI tools to enhance instruction.

As part of a new $11 million program in Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell researchers want to make AIs fluent with calculus so they can derive the underlying differential equations that govern physical systems.

In setting policy on facial recognition, the New York State Education Department will take a cue from a new report from the State Office of Information Technology Services that found the risks may outweigh the benefits.

Georgia State Sen. Jason Anavitarte may introduce legislation early next year to regulate students’ use of social media platforms, modeled after laws in other states and requiring age verification for some services.

Three staff email accounts at Kalama School District in Washington were compromised in mid-July, and now at least one student and several staff members have gotten fake emails from the district pretending to offer a job.

Following the success of biology courses aided by technology from Dreamscape Immersive, Arizona State University is hoping to make more use of virtual reality for other course subjects moving forward.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy will name a 19-member panel of education leaders, parents, students and others to study the effects of social media and make recommendations for the 2024-2025 academic year.

After a somewhat chaotic year in which professors grew suspicious of their students' writing and navigated new territory largely without clear guidance, colleges and universities still face inevitable change.

Neither the Hawaii Department of Education nor the University of Hawaii are considering outright bans on ChatGPT, but educators are waiting for more professional development or guidance how to use it.

A new voice and video intercom system at Sumner-Bonney Lake School District in Washington helps staff avoid face-to-face confrontations and gather information they need to know in advance before letting a visitor in.

Cybersecurity is widely regarded as the No. 1 technology issue for schools, so the White House and U.S. Department of Education have unveiled a public information campaign, grants and ed-tech partnerships to tackle it head-on.

Around 5,000 students who ride buses at Modesto City Schools will now be using the Zonar Z Pass system, which entails carrying an RFID card, scanning it when boarding a bus and having their whereabouts tracked.

Florida schools are grappling with significant disparities in the availability, quality and delivery of computer-science programming, but it should be a top priority given the state's burgeoning tech industry.