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In California, a new law will require all students there to learn cursive handwriting — a skill that had been mandatory for generations, but started to fall by the wayside in the digital age.

Hoping to expedite undersea data collection from coral reefs to study climate change, a 14-year-old freshman at Hanford High School in Washington built a water rover with AI to collect and analyze numerical sensor data.

A new internship program for high school students in Ohio proposes to give them entry-level work experience at technology companies throughout the state, which will be reimbursed for wages they pay to student interns.

State Sen. Reginald Thomas sponsored a bill that would assign the Kentucky Department of Education to set guidelines for AI use in schools, monitor its impact, and train teachers, administrators and school board members.

The bipartisan bill asks lawmakers to update the Digital Equity Act of 2021 to emphasize the importance of educating current and future workers on the basic principles and applications of artificial intelligence.

The California School Boards Association recognized several Inland Empire districts for innovative programs related to technology skill-building, virtual training , online communities and environmental sustainability.

The Seattle Times asked readers for their opinions on schools restricting cellphone use, and among 140 responses, an overwhelming majority, mostly teachers and parents, approved of keeping phones out of the classroom.

Republican state senators argue that Gov. Kathy Hochul's plan to replace gas-powered school buses by 2035 is too expensive for many districts to afford without significant impacts to their operating budgets.

First and second graders at Western Primary School in Indiana are piloting virtual reality games created by an assistant professor of computer science and informatics at Indiana University Kokomo.

More integrations, low-connectivity tools, small language models, an avalanche of resumes: This is not a Christmas wish list but a set of predictions for what generative AI will bring to education in the months ahead.

Two elementary school students in Southern California won honorable mention at this year's Congressional App Challenge Award for an app that can immediately notify family and emergency services of an active shooter.

Tupelo Middle School in Missouri has a robotics class that feeds into after-school programs that reach even more students, giving them not just technical knowledge but practice with hands-on problem-solving.

After shutting off its network earlier this month, a public school district in New Hampshire has regained many of its functions, inspected its devices and investigated the incident with its cyber insurance provider.

The district used Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) COVID-19 relief funds to buy Avantis Education ClassVR tools for 17 schools. The technology will be available to students this academic year.

More than $210,000 in grant funding from the Indiana Department of Education will help teachers support K-12 families with issues related to educational technology and blended-learning and virtual-learning environments.

Anonymous surveys by Stanford University researchers haven't found a meaningful increase in admissions of cheating, but some educators still worry that ChatGPT could lead to creative atrophy if it does the heavy lifting.

Participants in the Modern Classrooms Project’s virtual mentorship program have unlimited access to web-based video recording and editing tools from Screencastify, so their students might learn at their own pace.

Hiring students to help repair school-owned devices is one way districts are ensuring the sustainability of their 1-to-1 programs and extending the lifespan of their devices, especially as students are damaging them.