Education

A group of education leaders there will spend the next few months studying and making recommendations about how K-12 schools should implement AI as it rapidly upends everyday life.

Voters who live in the Whitehall, Mich., school district will decide at the polls on Nov. 4 whether to approve a 20-year, $30 million bond for districtwide improvements, including technology.

The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office is working with the ed-tech vendor Liaison to make the CCCApply system more user-friendly, automated and secure.

To make sense of a complex state initiative, many school districts in California have turned to the behavioral health technology platform TadHealth that simplifies complex billing processes for users.

Harford County Public Schools will use a state grant to expand their partnership with Defense Interns, which gives students access to registered apprenticeships that combine classwork with hands-on experience.

Mathematicians at Angelo State University are studying a process called “skew zero forcing," which involves new ways of modeling and analyzing the flow of information and has implications for cybersecurity.

The editorial board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette argues for Pennsylvania joining at least 27 other states in restricting student use of cellphones during the school day, given the effects of such policies elsewhere.

In a new action plan, EDUCAUSE outlines skills, ethics and collaboration strategies to guide effective use and implementation of generative artificial intelligence on college campuses for the next decade.

Decatur City Schools is one of five districts in Alabama to receive virtual-reality headsets from the ed-tech company Prisms of Reality, which will allow students to interact with abstract ideas in real-world scenarios.

With a neighboring district recovering from a cyber attack last week, Grand Island Public Schools CIO Cory Gearhart supported what he described as the state's renewed focus on data governance and cybersecurity.

The university's new lab includes technology to perform intra-oral scans and produce polished dentures and dental guards in minutes, giving students practice with the latest techniques in digital dentistry.

The first standalone cybersecurity degree at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas builds an interdisciplinary bridge between engineering and business, addressing workforce shortages.

Next week will mark the first time the United States hosts the Global Innovation Summit, which will convene international leaders in industry, government, business and academia to learn about AI in the health sciences.

A graduate of a private Lutheran university in Indiana is suing his alma mater following a data breach in August, alleging the university didn’t do enough to safeguard the data or notify impacted parties.

New financial software at Syracuse City School District has led to hundreds of problems with paychecks and benefits, which district officials attribute to the complexity of the system and new procedures for staff.

A handful of new artificial intelligence tools, purpose-built by the interactive learning platform Wooclap with input from university faculty, aim to cut prep time and deepen classroom engagement.

The Microsoft Elevate Washington initiative aims to close gaps in access to artificial intelligence tools and training across Washington state with free access to Copilot Studio and professional development resources.

After being targeted by a cyber attack last week, Kearney Public Schools in Nebraska are still holding classes this week without phones, computers and other network-dependent systems.