K-12

Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District in Iowa is not one of a growing number of districts nationwide banning mobile device or headphone use, but it does have a few rules regarding such devices.

The Quincy School District will add the use of artificial intelligence to the list of online uses subject to district policy, beginning with the 2024-25 school year.

The two high schoolers came out on top of nearly 50 others during a paid summer internship in which they learned to build mobile apps to benefit their community. They won the chance to make a proposal in real life.

A growing number of districts across the country have enacted, or plan to enact, prohibitions on students using their mobile phones during school hours starting this academic year.

The newly available Civics Collection has videos, lessons and interactive media for instructors to embed into their curricula, or for students to learn more about civics independently.

Researchers are working to eliminate the unknowns related to schools banning phones, trying to forge a clearer understanding of the advantages and limitations of those policies.

Lumen Technologies provided 900 miles of fiber to link public schools in New Mexico to the new Statewide Education Network. It’s an effort to bridge the state’s digital divide with critical middle-mile infrastructure.

Draft guidance from the Virginia Department of Education says cellphones should be turned off and stored away from the morning bell to dismissal, including lunch and time between class periods.

Several Pennsylvania school districts are getting hit by extensive, time-consuming, anonymous requests for large volumes of information. Officials suspect non-local people are using an AI to auto-generate these requests.

Weeks after a court ruling in July found the FCC's E-rate program unconstitutional, some legal experts say strong bipartisan support for E-rate and the other universal service programs could ensure their survival.

Up to 40 percent of global students have to learn in a second language, limiting their educational outcomes. AI translators, chatbots and multilingual text-to-speech tools can help bridge the gap.

Several K-12 school districts across Alabama are installing metal detectors, X-ray machines and other weapons-detection systems, as well as employing more school resource officers on campus.

A digital hall pass system at Lincoln Public Schools requires students to use a Chromebook application to ask to leave class, which teachers can approve and then see who is in and out of the room, why and for how long.

A few months into Baltimore County Public Schools' two-year contract with the virtual therapy app Talkspace, about 69 percent of surveyed students said they rated their therapists at least 4 out of 5 stars.

School safeguards against technology abuses are probably lagging behind usage and youthful expertise. As school districts have been debating cell phones, the threat of artificial intelligence has moved up.

Tech-savvy San Diego high school teacher Jen Roberts takes a proactive approach to showing her students the ins and outs of AI, which she said can prepare them for the future while improving their writing.

Some school districts in southwest Missouri are transitioning their bus fleets to propane or electric, citing long-term savings, lower carbon emissions, rebates to reduce costs and an overall quieter ride for students.

In an open letter Tuesday to K-12 schools across the state, California Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out research-based justifications and legal bases for local district policies limiting the use of smartphones on campus.