Education

The Biden administration has enlisted the help of Australia, India and Japan for the Quad Cyber Challenge, a resource-sharing initiative for preventing cyber crime against schools and government.

Ed-tech developers have released a slew of programs in recent weeks to detect AI-generated writing, hoping to address widespread concern among educators about students plagiarizing answers from AI chatbot programs.

The Central Rivers Area Education Agency convened superintendents, IT specialists, business managers and public relations staff to discuss ways to prepare for cyber attacks against K-12 school districts.

The North Dakota University System is recruiting leaders and planning seminars to combat the negative effects of artificial intelligence and discuss the potential for further applications in curriculum development.

Planning to convert its entire bus fleet to electric by 2030, Boston Public Schools this month will put 20 new electric buses on the roads and collect data on route efficiency, operations and climate and health effects.

Like most schools, the University of Texas at San Antonio has yet to clearly define how students can use AI chatbots that can answer essay prompts and math problems, but professors hope the strategy isn't a simple ban.

Artificial intelligence is here to stay, and optimizing it for the classroom will require a careful accounting of its implications, both good and bad: for tutoring, assessments, data security and other functions.

School threats aren't new, but their dispersal through technology has necessitated innovations to catch culprits. Pennsylvania's Safe2Say Something tip line, for example, has received nearly 83,000 tips since early 2019.

An agreement between a community college and Virginia Tech will help second-year transfer students from diverse backgrounds gain work experience while taking hybrid classes for a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity.

With an estimated global market value over $1.38 billion, the esports industry continues gaining popularity in Ohio, where grassroots organizations have been creating competitions at high school and collegiate levels.

K-12 schools have long relied on homework, and in some cases competition between students, to prompt the hard work of learning and processing information. But it’s possible these tactics do more harm than good.

With enrollment plummeting since the onset of the pandemic, Portland Public Schools is closing its Online Learning Academy in June as a cost-cutting measure. Its enrollment has dwindled to 225 students across 13 grades.

An intergovernmental collaboration will grant all 80 school districts in Los Angeles County free access to Hazel Health’s virtual mental health program, including one-on-one therapy sessions.

A high-tech educational tool at the Dayton Funk Music Hall of Fame teaches music history with custom hardware that allows participants to interact with software by waving a hand over three touchless motion sensors.

Education advocates and researchers say recent increases in federal funding for the Institute of Education Sciences could help further the evaluation and development of new instructional tools and methods.

Following a 2020 state law targeting illegal bus-passers, safety tech company BusPatrol says it has equipped 1,000 school buses in Pennsylvania with cameras that captured just under 8,000 violations since August 2022.

The new 30,000-square-foot building will house academic certificate programs in welding technology, industrial technology and property maintenance technology, and a two-year program in electrical construction technology.

A nonprofit advocacy group says Pennsylvania’s 14 cyber charter schools held a combined $164 million in unassigned fund balances in the 2020-21 school year, essentially stockpiling funds that should be spent on students.