K-12

Training systems like Georgia’s Cyber Range are crucial, enabling students to practice their tech skills with real-world scenarios such as machine learning for a manufacturer or information security on a mobile app.

In the scramble to solve looming challenges in education regarding broadband, online learning, artificial intelligence or any number of new technologies, it’s easy to overlook astonishing improvements.

The CIA Mission Possible Operation Advance Technology competition will invite educators across the U.S. to vie for computer and coding laboratories outfitted with $60,000 worth of technology.

Proposed legislation would ask the Hawaii Department of Education to assess the need and implications of making computer science a graduation requirement, amid concerns that students need more education in the subject.

With new state funding available to districts that were disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, schools are upgrading to environmentally efficient heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems.

Some experts say advances in artificial intelligence could yield educational tools to accurately assess reading level, comprehension, phonemic awareness, vocabulary and other skills that can be difficult to measure.

Zumbrota-Mazeppa Primary School in Minnesota is teaching students how to use technology while employing it to augment and connect lesson plans, bridge the divide between subjects and create more holistic education.

Meta-analyses of many studies have found that students comprehend and retain more from reading printed texts than screens, but design features and teaching metacognition could help make the most out of digital materials.

Maryann Wolf, director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at UCLA, explains in a Q&A that digital screens over-utilize the brain's novelty reflex, but they help students in particular cases.

The nonprofit Women Leading Technology is working with the University of Texas at Dallas, the city of Richardson and Techie Factory to introduce girls and young women to architecture as a potential career.

On the heels of a similar lawsuit by Seattle Public Schools earlier this year, the San Mateo County superintendent and school board are suing social media companies for contributing to student mental health issues.

The Data Science and Literacy Act introduced last month aims to improve, and increase access to, data science education by funding professional development, new curricula and STEM equity programs.

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has decided that remote learning will no longer count toward a district’s minimum required structured learning time, having tried it for the 2020-2021 school year.

Advocates for online civil liberties and people with low incomes say student data collection can be unfair and put students at risk, and it's time for federal agencies to ensure tech tools align with data privacy laws.

Minneapolis Public Schools in February became one of countless K-12 districts to suffer a ransomware attack in recent years, but teachers are frustrated by vague language and a lack of communication from officials.

So-called “TASER drones” have been proposed as one way to secure schools. An interview with the CEO of public safety tech vendor Axon illustrates how the situation is more complicated than deploying armed robots.

New York state grants set aside for purchases like computer servers, interactive whiteboards, tablets and high-speed broadband will afford Queensbury Union Free School District 1,000 new Chromebooks.

Lumberton Independent School District is the latest east Texas district to approve a four-day hybrid school calendar for 2023-24, hoping to alleviate issues with mental health, attendance and substitute fill rates.