K-12

A Butte County organization has been recruiting students to build one robot per year since 2013 for entry into competitions. The group now has sponsorships from area businesses such as Transfer Flow and Drivergent.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new bill this week mandating curricula about researching, using critical thinking skills, and learning the difference between facts and opinions and primary and secondary sources.

The National Summit on K-12 School Safety and Security highlighted free cybersecurity resources for schools and explored how adults can work with children to address the mental health impacts of social media.

The state of West Virginia has set up a new website through Tutor.com to offer free test preparation and tutoring in 200 subjects, as well as help with job searches and applications, resumes and cover letters.

Traverse City West and Central high schools recently began construction on new spaces for academic and co-curricular needs tied to science, technology, engineering, and math, plus robotics and manufacturing.

The Center on Reinventing Public Education found just two states have provided official guidance to schools about artificial intelligence so far, and states that delay or decline doing this might face more problems.

A new framework for improving K-12 cybersecurity, based on standards from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, stands on five pillars: identify, protect, detect, respond and recover.

The nonprofit Code.org’s new state-by-state analysis of computer science education has good news and bad news: 2023 saw major progress in making it a requirement, but enrollment is not sufficiently high or equitable.

Baltimore police arrested suspects in a shooting outside Carver Vocational Technical High School in Baltimore with help from video surveillance footage. ShotSpotter initially alerted police to eight firearm discharges.

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Clark County is the fifth largest school district in the country, and hackers claim to still have access to its network as they seek a monetary payout in exchange for deleting stolen student data.

The Federal Communications Commission recently extended E-Rate funding to cover WiFi on school buses, but some Republicans say this will raise fees on telecommunications providers and not improve learning outcomes.

Vernier Science Education officials say their new program could accelerate STEM education past pre-pandemic levels and eventually change or at least improve the way those subjects are taught.

The Cullman County Board of Education in Alabama approved a five-year contract with Spot.ai to integrate with the district's roughly 800 security cameras so administrators can access them from a centralized hub.

Project Tomorrow's recent Speak Up research, which focused on use of classroom technology and involved 50,000 respondents, found it's more often used to support adult management goals than student skill-building.

The Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether Evolv Technologies, which has sold security scanners to Atlanta-area school districts, exaggerated in marketing materials what its products can do.

A matter of weeks after an unspecified cybersecurity incident impacted the email network of Clark County School District in Washington, some parents received emails with their children's photos and private information.

Startup companies looking to make inroads in the U.S. education market are eligible for $100,000 and free training under the new AWS Education Accelerator initiative. The application deadline is Nov. 17.