Weeks after a cyber attack forced Richmond Public Schools offline, district officials are investigating whether hackers posted Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and other information to the dark web.
With the recent election of nine educators to state office, some Connecticut teachers and officials are hopeful the next legislative session will reexamine the role of AI, cellphones and other personal devices in school.
As artificial intelligence advances faster than many district policies and professional development can keep pace, ensuring its responsible use must fall not only to teachers but administrators, IT leaders and vendors.
As part of the Georgia 311 Challenge 2026 Demo Day, teams from four institutions created production-ready prototypes to help the fast-growing Mableton, Ga., with issues like transparency and digital services.
As Pittsburgh-area school districts turn to digital hall passes, some officials say they reduce the amount of time kids are out of class, while some students say they feel like they're being spied on.
Among the first cohorts of college freshmen to have grown up with generative AI, this year’s incoming students are thinking about how the technology will affect their careers, and colleges are rethinking how to support them.
Schools in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill are hoping for more details after Google said earlier this week that customers would only be allowed to use search if they subscribed to AI, then reversed that decision.
AI tools can mistake developing English proficiency for a lack of content knowledge, but they have potential to strengthen both teaching and learning for multilingual learners if designed and used intentionally.
A vulnerability in a vendor used across the California Community Colleges system to send students their financial aid refunds was exploited by bad actors who pocketed checks intended for students.
A private research university in Houston is building a seven-story facility with office, laboratory and research space meant to attract companies in fields like energy, data science, AI and computational engineering.
(TNS) — One in three educators don't know if their school or district has a policy to address the potential threat to student safety from AI-generated fake images and videos.
With the FCC still taking public comments on the E-rate program, a leader from The School Superintendents Association explains which districts are most at risk and why a final decision could be months or years away.
With new Democratic majorities in Congress, education technology represents one potential area of bipartisan cooperation, with some officials backing an AI bill to stop companies from using student data to train AI models.
A day after Google announced that schools that reject its AI would no longer have access to Google search, the company retreated from the decision in the face of blowback from politicians and education leaders.
BCR Cyber is extending its community college workforce training initiative into high school, beginning with approximately 15 students. If it's successful, organizers hope the model could expand to other Maryland schools.
Ohio lawmakers approved grant funding to help K-12 districts purchase silent panic alarms, gunshot-detection systems and technology that allows law enforcement to access school security cameras during emergencies.
Colleges and universities across Massachusetts have or are currently using Flock cameras or other license plate readers, and some students and staff are responding by decorating the cameras to draw attention to them.
A cybersecurity education program at Lakota Local School District in Ohio launched seven years ago with 60 students and has since grown to about 200 per year, giving high schoolers a head start on high-demand careers.
A cyber attack on Columbia University, discovered in June 2025, compromised Social Security numbers, addresses, demographic details, financial-account information, academic histories and medical information.
Jerome School District was closed for two days last month and had a third party inspect its devices after a ransomware attack. The district did not pay the ransom and anticipates data being leaked to the dark web.
Milford Public Schools has been surveying teachers and collecting data on the classroom management platform Securly to assess their use of certain tools, finding that screen time increases as students get older.
Following a data breach affecting millions of California students, cybersecurity experts say that stronger vendor oversight, better data management and dedicated funding could reduce the risk of future incidents.
In Howard County schools, all assignments are considered AI-free unless a teacher allows its use. When AI is permitted, students must follow set boundaries and disclose or cite their use of the technology.
UND CONNECT is a program that provides University of North Dakota faculty and students with opportunities to engage in community-based research, development and outreach projects.
A new Cyber Security Operations Center at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, the fifth of its kind in the state, opens after data breaches hit nearly 4.5 million Massachusetts residents in 2024.
A CoSN-led coalition is calling on lawmakers to preserve federal broadband subsidies for schools and libraries as the Federal Communications Commission weighs potential changes to the nearly 30-year-old program.
The latest annual report from the State Educational Technology Directors Association says AI, growing scrutiny, limited resources and gaps in educator training are challenging states to demonstrate technology’s value.
In Connecticut, state officials and business leaders are forging relationships with universities to give students more inroads to growing, tech-focused fields and early opportunities with employers.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill admissions staff say AI is no longer useful for evaluating essays, because students writing them use AI to avoid the kinds of errors that such tools used to catch.
Project Tomorrow’s national survey and accompanying webinar suggested that young people see technology literacy, critical thinking and real-world problem solving as interconnected skills.
In a debate hosted by Johns Hopkins University, higher education leaders agreed that AI has been problematic for learning so far but disagreed on the scale of those problems, and if responsible use will win the day.
After a cyber incident forced Oneonta City School District to cancel classes last week, a group identifying itself as "Shiba ransomware" told the district it stole information on students, parents and staff.
An investigation into a ransomware attack on Springfield Public Schools found the known hacker group Interlock was responsible for breaking into the district's server and installing malware.
Pennsylvania recently became the 24th state to pass a bell-to-bell ban on cellphones in school, but some district officials say the state mandate conflicts with their existing policies that were already effective.
A program at Skyview High School offers students hands-on experience with emerging quantum technology through a partnership with a quantum tech company and a local economic development authority.
Supported by a grant from Meta, New Mexico State University is offering training courses for K-12 teachers on how to use virtual reality in education settings to give students otherwise unattainable learning experiences.
A private Catholic university in Connecticut will use a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to offer high schoolers 30 hours of instruction in basic cybersecurity concepts and exercises.
Coming up on four years since the public launch of ChatGPT, some Texas school districts have restricted AI use for younger students while others are going full-bore with AI-focused campuses and programs.
AI-fueled bot traffic is overwhelming open research repositories, forcing colleges and universities to devote resources to classifying types of traffic and defending access for people who need it.
The first new college at the University of California, Berkeley, in more than 50 years is the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, designed in a way that emphasizes common areas and collaboration.
Two senators, one Democrat and the other Republican, sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai questioning the company's aggressive push for AI in schools and how much it knows about the impacts of AI on students.
Personalized ed-tech tools may become more capable, but what matters in practice is whether they fit classroom realities, preserve professional judgment and give educators more room to respond to individual students.
A proposed class-action lawsuit alleges Educational Testing Service failed to safeguard sensitive records of 7 million students. State officials are reviewing the company's compliance with data security requirements.
As part of a $3.6 million grant-funded program starting next fall, a private Presbyterian university in Kerrville, Texas, will give AI certifications to all first-year students and make them available to others.
School boards in El Paso County, Colo., are asking the state to approve new multi-district online and hybrid schools, some of which would offer in-person instruction for core classes and electives two days per week.
Northville is one of many Michigan school districts trying to figure out how to continue teaching skills like writing, critical thinking and digesting long texts, and convincing students AI hasn't made them obsolete.
Richmond Public Schools went offline Wednesday after employees found messages on their laptops threatening permanent data loss if the district didn't contact those responsible within 72 hours for negotiation.
On the last voting session day before the general election, Pennsylvania lawmakers approved a bill barring students from having cellphones in K-12 schools. Gov. Josh Shapiro is expected to sign it.
Building on a gathering of student representatives from all 50 states in July, the Students First Tour will support local policy discussions, student leadership opportunities and conversations with education officials.
The University of Michigan's official principles for artificial intelligence use focus on responsible and selective adoption, critical evaluation of outcomes and an emphasis on human judgment.
A new facility under construction on Texas A&M's innovation and technology campus in Bryan, Texas, will make advanced AI and high-performance computing capacity available to research, public sector and industry users.
Four of seven school board seats in Baltimore are contested this election cycle, and several candidates expressed interest in reducing student reliance on screens and devices and focusing on academic achievement.
Life Stories updated its free online collection of educational materials with new search capabilities and Google Classroom integration intended to make the resources easier for teachers and students to use.
Eleven winners in the inaugural Education Experience Awards from both the K-12 and higher education sectors devised innovative improvements to lessons, enrollment, website navigation, AI literacy and tech support.
Manhattan high schoolers walked out of class this week and marched to the Lincoln Center in protest of AI in education, expressing fears that the technology is a threat to their cognitive development and job prospects.
A recent Connecticut Education Association survey of 113 teachers found that most of them believe phones and devices have contributed significantly to a lack of reading stamina and vocabulary in students.
While the Federal Communications Commission reviews the 30-year-old E-rate program's purpose, an analysis of federal funding requests shows how schools' connectivity priorities have changed over the past decade.
A cyber criminal used a compromised login credential to hack a standardized testing company in September, exposing names, birthdates, addresses and disability records of millions of California students.
Winston-Salem State University will use a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to integrate cybersecurity lessons into courses in healthcare management, education and computer science.