Education

Shippensburg, Kutztown and Pennsylvania Western universities are now using Niche, an online service where prospective students can upload their high school information and test scores in exchange for admissions offers.

By testing AI-powered ed-tech tools in school districts, the nonprofit Leanlab Education aims to help developers remove use barriers ranging from slow output and content shortcomings to errors that fuel teacher distrust.

Modesto City Schools used Laserfiche software to automate the hiring and onboarding process, enabling them to fill vacant positions 26 percent faster and increase new-hire satisfaction with onboarding by 12 percent.

When implementing artificial intelligence in schools, officials from the Los Angeles County Office of Education encourage school districts to create flexible guidelines and include everyone in professional development.

A bill introduced by Rep. Patrick Sellers, D-Jefferson County, would require the Alabama Department of Education and local districts to adopt a policy for the 2026-27 school year restricting cellphone use during the day.

Scammers stole millions from a North Dakota school district by convincing an employee to click on a fraudulent link. The FBI's Internet Crime Report found phishing was by far the most common type of cyber crime last year.

Great Bend Unified School District 428 in Kansas plans to use E-rate funds to upgrade the district's Internet bandwidth and put Wi-Fi on school buses. It also intends to apply for the FCC's new cybersecurity program.

Educators broadly agree on the necessity of teaching students to use artificial intelligence, which some do by exploring the technology's foundations in computer science and implications in media literacy.

Surveillance cameras, access control systems and panic buttons can accelerate crisis response times, but experts warn against allowing devices to supersede thorough planning and training for the entire school community.

Wisconsin is one of six states that do not have ongoing funding dedicated to career and technical education in public schools, and State Superintendent Dr. Jill Underly wants to change that in the 2025-27 biennial budget.

To give students real-world experience with technology, a school district in Connecticut will have them set up and operate microphones, visual screens, presentations and other technical aspects of school board meetings.

As part of its Connected Learning initiative to help address the digital divide, AT&T donated laptops through the nonprofit Human-I-T to be distributed to pre-selected college students in need.

California’s education budget is on track to offer one-time funding that schools could use to bolster cybersecurity. At the same time, new state laws are granting schools more autonomy in regulation of technology.

An annual competition gives students a chance to earn scholarship money, and industry professionals a chance to find workers and to highlight the national shortage of automotive technicians.

A private research university in Georgia agreed to pay damages to students and an instructor, as well as implement new data security measures, in order to resolve a lawsuit over a hack in February 2023.

After the state replaced Houston ISD's superintendent and school board last year, open records requests to the district more than doubled. Some parents want the district to bring back an online dashboard of attendance data.

The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences Small Business Innovation Research program offers funding for the development of ed-tech tools by companies with fewer than 500 employees.

From hornbooks to projectors, televisions, ARPANET and remote learning, history is full of technological innovations that changed education, and we have something to learn from them.