Education

A partnership between California Northstate University and MindHYVE.ai Inc. will integrate agentic AI to tailor coursework and upskill instructors. It’s the latest such initiative from a health science university.

A Bay Area school district recently formalized rules around acceptable AI use. Prohibited uses include making or distributing harmful content, sharing confidential information, and violating academic-honesty policies.

A private research university in Houston will get $14.2 million from the state for the Center for Space Technologies, and $8.1 million from the federal government for the Center for Advanced Space Sensing Technologies.

The National Security Agency has designated Eastern Washington University as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations, following encouragement by the federal government to train more professionals.

A private university in Nebraska will use $2 million from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education within the U.S. Department of Education to credential teachers via the online platform BloomBoard.

For this week’s 16th annual Doing Democracy Day in Colorado, high school students were invited to attend and talk to city councilmembers, business people, police officers and other area leaders.

Allentown schools in Pennsylvania have deployed an AI chatbot for students, a specialized AI track at Bridgeview Academy, a summer student AI institute at DeSales University, and expanded staff professional development.

The California Cradle-to-Career Data System, already used to track education and career markers, will now connect with CalKIDS and community college data to connect students with scholarship opportunities.

While Norfolk State University in Virginia has traditionally covered energy costs for students in off-campus university housing, it will now levy a fine against apartments whose energy bills exceed $250.

A new major at the university will emphasize fluency across programming languages and artificial intelligence paradigms, as well as how AI intersects with law, society and ethics.

Under proposed legislation, rather than having to transition to all zero-emission school buses by Jan. 1, 2040, Connecticut school districts will have until July 1, 2040 to transition 90 percent of their buses.

A Georgia State University researcher and fraud expert found data exposed in a 2023 cyber attack is just now being used to apply for bank accounts and loans, highlighting the risks of keeping .edu addresses active.

Findings from a survey of more than 1,000 parents and teachers show how students are learning both inside and outside the formal school system through online social platforms, and often from unvetted sources.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is working with 14 school districts across the U.S. that have existing calculus programs but need additional educational support. It's also developing a set of online tools.

A proposal before the Wake County school board would involve the county, sheriff’s office and a vendor in putting cameras in school zones and on bus stop-arms, potentially discouraging speeders while raising revenue.

A public community college in New York will put a state grant toward training programs in advanced manufacturing and electrical technology in the Hudson Valley's growing clean energy and manufacturing sectors.

Instructure and InnovateEDU’s analysis of common classroom technologies found 60 percent of designated ed-tech tools and 98 percent of consumer tools haven't met standards of evidence recognized by the ESSA.

Third Coast Foundry, a collaborative effort between several major research universities, will start as a two-year pilot, hosting university-founded startups, workshops and investor events in San Francisco.