K-12

The Chicago Public Schools Board of Education approved a $1 million contract to replace X-ray machines currently in elementary and high schools that detect firearms, knives and ammunition in bags and backpacks.

The Norway-based Inspera, which expanded to the U.S. market last year, has added Crossplag’s AI Content Detector and other anti-plagiarism tools to its suite of digital assessment and remote proctoring software.

When a school or district suffers a cyber attack, informing the public avoids fueling speculation, engenders trust and helps the public understand why it makes sense for government agencies to invest in cybersecurity.

As schools across the U.S. consider banning cellphones amid a student mental health crisis, a Michigan district is weighing the need for study and deliberation against the need to make a decision before the new year begins.

A school district in Minnesota wants voters to approve a new funding stream that would bring in $10 million a year to support technology-related needs such as cybersecurity, security cameras and financial software.

According to a new report from UNESCO, "Technology in Education: A Tool on Whose Terms," it will take more than money to bridge the digital divide, and more than technology to solve the problems of contemporary education.

The nonprofit International Society for Technology in Education is developing Stretch, an AI chatbot intended to be factually reliable, by training it only on information created or approved by educators.

Nebraska's second largest school district will not allow students to use phones during class, and it's rolling out digital hall passes in high schools to track missed instructional time and limit out-of-class behavioral issues.

While it has no authority to require governments to act, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization found excessive smartphone use negatively affects student performance and emotional stability.

Toyota USA Foundation has earmarked up to $5.7 million in grants, and will work with local and national nonprofits, to close educational gaps by funding equipment, staffing, job shadowing and other STEM support programs.

U.S. schools invested heavily in Chromebooks during the COVID-19 pandemic, but they're now having to throw thousands of them away because Google built them to be impossible to update within three to six years.

In the event their new Highland Springs school fails to pass final inspection, Aiken County Public School District officials are planning to use five e-learning days allotted by state law to start the year on time.

In a study of 514 students across the state, conducted by the nonprofit WestEd, those who used a VR tool from the ed-tech company Prisms outperformed their peers who covered the same material in a more traditional way.

An annual series of STEM camps for middle and high school students in Colorado challenged them to embed artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies into a 1/18th scale race car.

With support from federal funding and a statewide program, Ohio middle school students will have free access to Zearn Math through June 2025 as educators hope to reverse declining math scores since the pandemic.

Through SUNY Canton and his own company, CyberSpara, a cybersecurity professor developed the DigitalPASS game to teach K-12 students responsible practices through their own interactions, as opposed to didactic instruction.

South Texas students and families received laptops through AT&T's donation to the nonprofit Human I-T, with which AT&T is also working to provide the Boys & Girls Club of Pharr-San Juan with laptops and other resources.

A New Jersey school district will give an iPad to all K-8 students and teachers for the coming school year, with professional development and one-to-one leadership coaching and support planned throughout the year.