Education

This week’s decision from the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals calls the Universal Service Fund unconstitutional. The nearly 30-year-old fund uses telecommunications fees to pay for the FCC’s E-rate program.

In addition to giving money to 50 companies for educational apps, programs or research, the Tools Competition has a new partnership with OpenAI that rewards one team leveraging artificial intelligence.

Built with about $150,000 in strategic investment funds and opened in June 2023, the University of Texas at San Antonio's outdoor drone enclosure is growing in popularity for research across several departments.

As a result of a 2021 settlement against Google related to its data collection practices, the company is funding a community education program from New Mexico Public Education Department about online safety.

The literacy software company Amira Learning announced a partnership with the Louisiana Department of Education to provide AI-powered reading assistance to roughly 100,000 students starting this fall.

While many of South Carolina's most prominent institutions have been growing, its technical colleges have seen a decline in full-time enrollment since 2012. This could have an impact on local industries.

The Texas Education Agency's Office of School Safety and Security is rolling out a mass communication and threat reporting system called Sentinel, available to all schools in the state at no charge.

A new framework from the Los Angeles County Office of Education offers step-by-step instructions for the implementation and use of artificial intelligence in TK-12 schools that other districts might find useful.

After a year of offering generative AI tools for lesson planning, the ed-tech software company Anthology unveiled new features for artificial intelligence literacy, student assessment and multimedia creation.

As one of three federal hub designations in Indiana, a consortium of biotech manufacturing companies, institutions and organizations called Heartland BioWorks will get $51 million to help fill in-demand jobs.

The South Carolina Department of Education is expected to draft a model cellphone policy in August. Many students at schools that have already piloted cellphone restrictions were pleasantly surprised at their effect.

According to recent data from the education research organization foundry10, about a third of college applicants in 2023-24 acknowledge using an AI tool for help in writing admissions essays.

Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. Alberto Carvalho intends to assemble independent experts to conduct a wide-ranging review of what went wrong with the AI chatbot the district debuted in March.

The university will use a grant from the National Science Foundation to improve its hardware and software, as well as train more than 200 undergraduates and 16 graduate students to apply advanced technologies to research.

Texas A&M University canceled classes on July 18 and 19 after a faulty software update from the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike negatively affected TAMU servers, workstations and work laptops.

School districts and state and local governments across the U.S. have been approving policies restricting student cellphone use in class. Many teachers are desperate for the help, and some have already seen improvements.

The fifth round of the Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants will dole out grant funding for career training programs in sectors such as clean energy, semiconductors and biotechnology.

After KIPP NYC College Prep restricted smartphone use in class, AP test scores increased, grades bounced back to pre-pandemic averages, and attendance at sporting events and other activities jumped by 50 percent.