Education

Educators at both the county and the college level are rapidly getting up to speed on AI issues such as legal disclaimers, parental permissions, policies, precautions and potential uses.

The Iowa Department of Education invested $3 million to bring the EPS Reading Assistant to elementary schools statewide. The tool uses speech recognition technology to correct students as they read out loud.

Parents concerned about their kids’ online activity should start a conversation early and often with them about safety, according to tips shared with parents at a Meta-hosted workshop this month.

Brienne May, a fifth grade teacher from Pennsylvania, was one of 12 educators chosen from Great Lake states for a weeklong shipboard science workshop on the EPA research vessel Lake Guardian.

Aerospace engineers, graduate assistants and professors are re-creating the conditions of space as they build and test miniaturized sensors and instruments to help NASA better understand the cosmos.

The Cyber Navigator Internship Program, led by the University of Virginia, connects students at several schools with local governments. Established in 2021, it helps election offices strengthen their cybersecurity.

Propelled by plans to ban phones in big-city districts such as New York and Los Angeles, some Philadelphia-area districts are trying new ways to do so — with parent groups often at the forefront.

Rockingham County Schools has announced the implementation of cutting-edge weapons detection systems across middle and high schools in the district, known as Opengate.

Student cellphone use is a hot topic of conversation across the state, and the state Board of Education has adopted guidance urging districts to develop policies to restrict student phone use.

The Pine Springs Preparatory Virtual Academy started its first school year this week. The tuition-free public charter school allows students from anywhere in North Carolina to attend full time online.

TeacherServer offers hundreds of secure, generative AI education tools, all built by Dr. Zafer Unal, a professor at the University of South Florida. He created the site this summer, in less than three months.

The policy change comes after Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order mandating that school systems devise ways to create cellphone-free environments at school.

The amount is in addition to $184,000 awarded to the state last year, on top of $222,000 granted in late 2020 as part of an initiative to protect children from lead in drinking water in Hawaii.

The federal government is alleging that Georgia Tech and its research arm didn’t follow enforcement of cybersecurity rules stated within U.S. Department of Defense contracts.

The 2024 state exams are only the second batch to follow the implementation of the state's Next Generation Learning Standards, established after revisions from the controversial Common Core curriculum.

A task force in Louisiana has released guidelines for safe and ethical use of artificial intelligence in schools, with officials saying they are creating programs that use it to help with math and reading.

The University of Maryland Extension in Frederick, Md., is looking to expand practical research into cover crops with the goal of better understanding how farmers learn from each other.

In a new report, market researchers said the use of metaverse technology in education will increase greatly in the next four years. The industry, they estimated, will rise from $3.9 billion to $19.3 billion by 2028.