Education

A two-week program at North Carolina Central University gives attendees a $1,000 stipend, field trips to local businesses, team bonding activities and a pitch competition to help with the students’ overall development.

Purpose-built AI learning platforms that don’t give students the answer, as opposed to tools that allow for direct answer generation like ChatGPT, are the way to avoid making students utterly dependent upon AI.

Colleges and universities know they need to get students comfortable with using artificial intelligence tools, but discussions should focus more on people and pedagogy than rules, regulations and specific brands.

The 40,000-square-foot Helix AI and Medical Academy, which can house upwards of 600 students, will begin teaching K-5 students this fall how to utilize and prepare for AI in future job markets.

On-time graduation rates at Greeley-Evans School District 6 have jumped from 77.1 percent in 2016 to 87.3 percent in 2024, coinciding with the launch of career pathway program that teachers say is engaging students.

A week of STEM camps involved classes designed and taught by Innovation Center student designers and teachers, with projects that included building and coding robots and writing scripts for cybersecurity tasks.

The 900-page federal bill is expected to promote private schools at the expense of public ones, reduce student loan options and food assistance, cut into school budgets and heavily tax private university endowments.

After a bus driver shortage resulted in a delayed or canceled routes and stranded students last year, St. Louis Public Schools has a new $30 million contract with Zum Services to provide and track buses for 220 routes.

Commenting on a Facebook post asking for their reactions to Alabama's school cellphone restrictions, many parents voiced their support, and some said the policy should apply to teachers, too.

Illinois Tech and St. Cloud State have partnered with Risepoint to meet prospective students where they are and provide online degree programs in fields such as business analytics, finance and project management.

New York law will soon require students to have their cellphones turned off at school and stored in a way chosen by their principals. Gov. Kathy Hochul recommended that parents start preparing their kids for this reality.

Principal Jessiah Gilchrist said Cedar Rapids Taft Middle School has had a policy in place since 2020 restricting the use of cellphones, and he said it's been "so effective."

A recent report by Common Sense Media says three quarters of teens have used AI companions, which are designed to be agreeable and validating. More than a third found them more "satisfying" than interacting with friends.

The 2026-27 Ohio budget mandates that K-12 districts create policies to govern the use of artificial intelligence and cellphones, and offers a handful of $100,000 grants to community colleges for implementing AI.

Supporting cutting-edge research at colleges and universities — even, or especially, in its earliest stages, before anyone can know for sure what will come of it — has been paying dividends for society for generations.

Projects announced at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University this week included new workforce training programs as well as cybersecurity education for middle and high schoolers.

Broken Bow Public Schools fell victim to a sophisticated phishing scam in the form of an email containing false payment instructions that appeared to come from a trusted vendor in ongoing construction projects.

AI models are trained to optimize outputs, but in educating children, the process is the point. If we assess children only in terms of what can be “trained,” we repeat the mistake of emphasizing output over experience.