K-12

Education leaders who have seen major gains in student literacy in Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee say that state leadership, continuity and time are necessary for exporting those gains across the U.S.

DeKalb County School District in Georgia tasks students with leading cybersecurity awareness, training them to recognize and call out poor security practices and encourage communitywide digital safety.

Illinois is one of eight states that have yet to pass restrictions on cellphone use in public schools, but that may change with a recently amended bill that has support from Democrats, Republicans and the governor.

A group of child safety organizations faulted Washington state for being too lax on smartphone use at school, as state law merely requires districts to enact policies tailored to their community’s needs by 2030.

At the Consortium for School Networking conference this week, panelists argued that the screen time debate must shift focus from how much time students spend on screens to how that time is being spent.

Houston Independent School District will expand its pilot of AI-focused "Future 2" schools from two to six this fall, and an internal email suggested the program may eventually reach 100 schools.

Penn State Berks will use a recent donation to establish the Foster Excellence in STEM Fund, which will support partnerships with K-12 districts and outreach programming to introduce kids to STEM subjects.

Some experts say interactions with artificially intelligent “aliens” could be developmentally damaging. As such, learning technologies need to balance anthropomorphism with objectification and engagement with separation.

The coming deadline for compliance with new provisions in the Americans with Disabilities Act is an opportunity for K-12 school districts to reconsider the places and formats in which they publish public information.

A survey of San Diego County's 42 traditional K-12 school districts found some focused on AI literacy, some setting up websites with guidance on AI for parents and students, and some still working on their AI policies.

A school district in Minnesota shut down its systems, contacted third-party cybersecurity experts and started working with law enforcement Monday after an unauthorized party accessed the network.

Educators moved quickly in the pandemic era to scale access to virtual learning — but governance, accountability and data systems have not kept pace. A patchwork of models and standards complicates solutions.

North East Independent School District in Texas may soon be monitored by a conservator after a state investigation determined that district leaders did not create a bell-to-bell phone ban in compliance with state law.

Given reporting delays from the South Carolina Department of Education, the state Senate's Education Oversight Committee will take over collecting, analyzing and reporting test results of voucher students.

Researchers at Digital Promise position outcomes-based contracts (OBC) not as a guarantee of student proficiency, but as a method for making sure ed-tech tools are implemented and used properly.

New legislation signed by Gov. Abigail Spanberger requires schools to impose bell-to-bell phone restrictions, teach kids about social media addiction, promote the suicide crisis hotline and align CTE with workforce needs.

A spokeswoman for Alamo Heights Independent School District cited the ongoing investigation as reason not to divulge whether the district paid money to cyber criminals following an attack on the network in March.

A high school in Ohio is collaborating with the state work-placement organization OhioMeansJobs to provide students with a digital directory of local companies, available positions and application information.