K-12

The COVID pandemic seemed to worsen teens’ and adolescents’ mental health, according to several recent studies, but new research shows that telehealth may give many more kids access to support.

One district reported nearly 4,000 tickets in a week, and hundreds of requests for help on any given day at the beginning of the academic year is common. Heads of tech support teams detailed how they dealt with the surges.

Stillwater Public Schools continues to develop its 1:1 technology initiative — a program launched for the 2023-24 academic year and funded by monies from a new bond initiative passed this year.

The federal E-rate program has the potential to be a well of funding for cybersecurity that K-12 schools and libraries are eager to tap to protect themselves from increasingly sophisticated cyber criminals.

As school districts see a rise in the use of artificial intelligence, educators say they’re figuring out ways to ensure the new tools are being used responsibly and don’t impede student learning.

Students are playing a key role in tweaking a mobile app that offers 24/7 advice, reassurances, and links to activities or informational videos for teens, and it's relieving some overworked school counselors.

Public school districts in Rochester and nearby Stewartville, Minnesota, are using the cybersecurity platform Arctic Wolf on top of their own IT security after Rochester suffered a cyber attack in the spring.

The Boys & Girls Club of Cheyenne and After School for Kids recently got donations of cash from AT&T to support digital literacy in rural communities, as well as 50 computers to distribute to families in need.

A new, free online resource from the nonprofit Consortium for School Networking makes cybersecurity standards from the National Institute of Standards and Technology intelligible and achievable for K-12 leaders.

Half of teachers say they know a student who was disciplined or faced negative consequences for using — or being accused of using — generative artificial intelligence like ChatGPT to complete a classroom assignment.

Virtual-reality labs opened this year at three charter-school campuses in Southern Nevada, with headsets, augmented-reality apps and 3D printers to teach students about immersive technology and digital product innovation.

In addition to adding math and music courses, the Pennsylvania-based education software company is also using artificial intelligence to build user profiles and offer more targeted lessons.

An early warning dashboard will be available to Indiana's K-12 districts before the 2024-2025 academic year to help identify students who are at risk of not graduating on time due to chronic absenteeism and other issues.

AI tools can be writing coaches, help teachers map out customized learning plans for English learners, and possibly help evaluate transcripts from immigrant students, but they have biases and limits to be aware of.

In order to graduate, freshman entering North Carolina public high schools in the 2026-2027 academic year will have to pass a computer science course, which is likely to cover programming, analytics, AI and cybersecurity.

Many parents and bus drivers like the idea of the bus-tracking GPS feature that Los Angeles Unified School District launched in May, but they've found its accuracy and functionality highly inconsistent.

A survey by Intelligent.com found that two-thirds of high school teachers and college instructors are rethinking their assignments, and three-quarters of those teachers are planning to require handwritten work.

Greater Lawrence Technical School and Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School will each receive over $700,000 to build talent pipelines in fields such as advanced manufacturing and marine technology.