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A suburban public school district in Pennsylvania has restored Internet connectivity after disconnecting its network last week due to an unspecified security threat, the details of which are still not public.

Some education experts say focused tutoring will be needed to address learning loss that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, and technological advances such as AI chatbots make tutoring more accessible than ever.

The education software company Curriculum Associates will host the first of eight one-hour weekly sessions on Sept. 13. Teachers can register for free and receive recordings if they cannot attend live.

Tools like ChatGPT are being heralded as a critical underpinning of a 21st-century education or feared as the death knell of creativity. Either way, educators increasingly realize they can’t ignore AI.

Carlisle Area School District shut down its Internet system Sept. 1 to investigate a possible security breach, although the district's phones and website remained operational.

Responding to pressure from disability advocates, the company’s digital study guides and on-demand tutoring services will soon have closed captioning, interpreting services, transcripts and other accommodations.

A lawsuit from the Livingston Parish School Board against two social media giants, their parent companies and two Internet service providers alleges the intentional addictiveness of those platforms has harmed students.

Advances in artificial intelligence represent an opportunity to get students thinking about how to use the technology to solve problems, and what skills are disposable versus essential for the future.

Common Sense Education's Digital Well-Being program offers free videos for students in grades 6-12 about identifying tech-related stressors, developing healthy habits and understanding how digital media can affect them.

For campus safety, Philadelphia School District is installing metal detectors, launching surveillance drones, buying a video-management system for its cameras, and enhancing police presence and community patrols.

The ed-tech company Discovery Education is in the process of acquiring DreamBox Learning, whose math and reading tools serve about 6 million K-12 students and 600,000 teachers across the U.S.

As in many other states, esports are increasingly popular at Missouri high schools and colleges, and they represent an opportunity for participants to learn teamwork and build confidence and social skills.

A state attorney has declined an investigation into former administrators at Broward County Public Schools after they shared privileged information with their private company that they withheld from the public.

Advocacy groups such as CurbCutOS and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund say the digital revolution in education is leaving some students with disabilities behind, and progress will require assessments.

The school system in Prince George’s County, Md., suffered a cyber attack on Aug. 14, mainly affecting staff’s user accounts. Now, school officials believe some personal information has been leaked.

A school district in Pennsylvania has implemented a cybersecurity program that will eventually be required for middle schoolers and an elective at the high school level, offering students an industry certification.

All guides, papers, evidence-based tools, webinars and videos curated by TransformEd, which ceased operations in June, have gone to another education nonprofit that shares its vision for inclusiveness and equity.

Some New York Board of Regents members have said they want students to be able to meet their math requirement by programming robots or learning coding languages, rather than repeatedly failing algebra.