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Since enacting restrictions on cellphones in school, educators are reporting positive trends in student engagement, discipline and academic achievement, and students have attested to improved focus and mental health.

The RAND Corporation’s 2025 American Mathematics Educator Survey found that 52 percent of Texas teachers used AI in math instruction at least once last year, but more than 20 percent hadn’t received training.

Allo Fiber will use nearly 100,000 business and residential access points to create a network for students to access on school-issued devices at home, local businesses and other public places.

By combining large-scale assessment data with interactive visualization tools, the Northwest Evaluation Association’s national dashboard offers timely insights into student learning trends.

A group of education leaders there will spend the next few months studying and making recommendations about how K-12 schools should implement AI as it rapidly upends everyday life.

Voters who live in the Whitehall, Mich., school district will decide at the polls on Nov. 4 whether to approve a 20-year, $30 million bond for districtwide improvements, including technology.

To make sense of a complex state initiative, many school districts in California have turned to the behavioral health technology platform TadHealth that simplifies complex billing processes for users.

Harford County Public Schools will use a state grant to expand their partnership with Defense Interns, which gives students access to registered apprenticeships that combine classwork with hands-on experience.

The editorial board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette argues for Pennsylvania joining at least 27 other states in restricting student use of cellphones during the school day, given the effects of such policies elsewhere.

Decatur City Schools is one of five districts in Alabama to receive virtual-reality headsets from the ed-tech company Prisms of Reality, which will allow students to interact with abstract ideas in real-world scenarios.

With a neighboring district recovering from a cyber attack last week, Grand Island Public Schools CIO Cory Gearhart supported what he described as the state's renewed focus on data governance and cybersecurity.

New financial software at Syracuse City School District has led to hundreds of problems with paychecks and benefits, which district officials attribute to the complexity of the system and new procedures for staff.

A handful of new artificial intelligence tools, purpose-built by the interactive learning platform Wooclap with input from university faculty, aim to cut prep time and deepen classroom engagement.

The Microsoft Elevate Washington initiative aims to close gaps in access to artificial intelligence tools and training across Washington state with free access to Copilot Studio and professional development resources.

After being targeted by a cyber attack last week, Kearney Public Schools in Nebraska are still holding classes this week without phones, computers and other network-dependent systems.

By 2015, for-profit management companies ran a large share of the cyber schools across the U.S., but for Commonwealth Charter Academy, separating from them brought in more money, independence and control over curricula.

Even after the initial pandemic-era rush to cyber charter schools subsided, Commonwealth Charter Academy has continued to grow because many parents are dissatisfied with their local public schools.

A recent report from the Center for Democracy and Technology found four main risks that increase as schools adopt AI more widely: cyber attacks, bullying, technology malfunctions and troubling interactions with chatbots.