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Student cellphone use is a hot topic of conversation across the state, and the state Board of Education has adopted guidance urging districts to develop policies to restrict student phone use.

The Pine Springs Preparatory Virtual Academy started its first school year this week. The tuition-free public charter school allows students from anywhere in North Carolina to attend full time online.

The policy change comes after Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order mandating that school systems devise ways to create cellphone-free environments at school.

The amount is in addition to $184,000 awarded to the state last year, on top of $222,000 granted in late 2020 as part of an initiative to protect children from lead in drinking water in Hawaii.

The 2024 state exams are only the second batch to follow the implementation of the state's Next Generation Learning Standards, established after revisions from the controversial Common Core curriculum.

A task force in Louisiana has released guidelines for safe and ethical use of artificial intelligence in schools, with officials saying they are creating programs that use it to help with math and reading.

Backed by $100,000 in prizes, a new challenge from the U.S. National Science Foundation calls on the next generation of innovators to build video games envisioning how future innovations might change our world.

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.