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The U.S. Education Department's assistant secretary for planning, evaluation, and policy development this week said students must learn about AI, it needs privacy safeguards, and teachers need to be the key decisionmakers.

The state Department of Management Division of Information Technology will provide K-12 schools with 16 months of endpoint detection and response services, including 24-hour monitoring and incident response.

Henry County Schools took its Internet offline last week after detecting suspicious network activity. Except for online classes, district operations are continuing while county, state and federal officials investigate.

Iowa teachers are using artificial intelligence to draft emails, write individual educational plans and create rubrics, and they recommend students use it to check their work and come up with extra practice problems.

A startup app called Pipedreamers offers high schoolers an after-school, dual-credit Introduction to Computing course led by Standford professors that covers coding, databases, website design and using AI tools.

Programs that subsidize Internet service for schools, libraries and low-income households hang in the balance under litigation by the nonprofit Consumers’ Research, which argues the FCC was not authorized to raise fees on phone calls.

New York City schools have been conducting parent-teacher conferences remotely since the COVID-19 pandemic, but they're finding participation is now far lower than it was before the pandemic.

University of Missouri and Harvard-Smithsonian researchers found that “STEM Career Days” can build an early interest in STEM fields, which could help meet the demand for trained professionals and diversify the field.

Cheating at one school prompted teachers and administrators to form a committee, and some educators who tolerated text-based AI this year have become more wary of the advantage it gives dishonest students.

As more states approve school choice programs — commonly through education savings accounts — there is demand for platforms that can handle the administrative tasks. Odyssey’s experience in Iowa illustrates the situation.

One of the only two states to provide schools with official guidance on artificial intelligence so far, Oregon published an explainer on its website with tips, definitions, references and links to helpful resources.

The California School Boards Association will convene a 28-member group of teachers and administrators to study the facets of artificial intelligence and organize professional-development sessions around each one.

With its third acquisition in two years, and not its first related to digital credentials, the software company Instructure intends to expand both its product suite and its footprint in the market.

The national nonprofit Let's Move in Libraries recently awarded Laura Munski, executive director of the Dakota Science Center, for her work with local educators to host and promote STEM programs.

The Cumberland County Board of Education in Tennessee has joined a lawsuit against Meta and Google for how their products contributed to disordered eating, unhealthy social comparisons and cyber-bullying among students.

An annual event in Frederick, Maryland, invites students from area high schools to see how science, technology, engineering and math affect people's everyday lives, and how accessible professions in those fields are.

Some families consult school-rating websites like GreatSchools and Niche when deciding where to send their kids, but experts say those websites rely on metrics that say more about the surrounding neighborhood.

A free AI-powered tool from the Journalistic Learning Initiative and Playlab Education Inc. is designed to instill in middle and high school students high standards for interviewing, fact-checking and reporting.