How Coding Can Cultivate Deep Civic Engagement
Growing up in Joliet, Illinois, my understanding of history was largely shaped by recurrent classroom materials and historical figures I’ve only read about in textbooks. Back then, my education felt like a passive process of memorizing facts rather than connecting with living stories. Classroom technology also felt abstract and disconnected from what I learned about culture and history. Moving to ...[Read More]
How Some Small, Rural Districts Are Winning the Attendance Struggle
Schools across the nation are trying to reduce chronic absentee levels. A recent study from The GRAD Partnership, Everyone Graduates Center and the Partnership for Student Success, finds that small and rural districts are recovering attendance rates faster than larger, more urban and suburban districts. The study reported that rural districts with fewer than 1,000 students brought their chronic a...[Read More]
A Reckoning on Social Media Addiction Came Late for Kids. Will AI Safety Be Different?
Efforts to make social media safer offer lessons for those looking to protect children using AI.
Think Your Students Know More About AI Than You Do? Read This (Opinion)
Here are four things your students don’t understand about AI—and what you can do about it.
Survey Identifies Data Governance Enforcement Gap for Agentic AI Tools
According to a new survey from identity security company Delinea, 99.7% of IT and security leaders said their organization has a formal policy governing what data AI tools and agents are permitted to access. Yet only about 51% said AI access is checked against those policies in real time.
OpenAI Intros Dots, AI Agents that Continue Working Between User Conversations
OpenAI has introduced Dots, GPT-6 Astra-powered agents that run on their own cloud computers, using connected applications to carry on with assignments between conversations and incorporating users’ feedback as they go.
Research: Lack of Specialized Infrastructure Is a Top AI Adoption Challenge
Enterprise AI projects are running into infrastructure questions as organizations move from planning toward deployment, according to recent research from Digital Realty.
2U Wins Online Education Solution Provider of the Year as AI Reshapes Digital Learning
2U has been named Online Education Solution Provider of the Year at the 2026 EdTech Breakthrough Awards, highlighting its edX platform and evolving role in AI-driven digital learning. The post 2U Wins Online Education Solution Provider of the Year as AI Reshapes Digital Learning first appeared on EdTechReview.
ChatGPT’s ‘Teen Mode’ Is Unsafe for Students, Report Concludes
The chatbot failed to report unsafe interactions to parents in a timely manner, researchers found.
From Compliance to Contribution: What Happens When Students Do Work That Matters
By: Nikki Stancampiano and Reem Al-Adhami Today, Reem Al-Adhami is studying aerospace engineering and has now spent three summers with Power Up Your Potential, a work-based learning program at the PAST Foundation in Columbus, Ohio. After first joining the program as a student, she returned as a peer advisor, helping create for other young people the kind of experience that had shaped her own path....[Read More]
AI Ambitions Are Running Into a Network Infrastructure Trust Problem
Network-provider trust concerns are impacting enterprise AI plans, with AI and data-driven projects the most affected initiatives among respondents reporting disruption, according to a report from telecommunications provider Arelion.
Will Kids Pay the Price for AI Panic?
This year, the United States hit a milestone nobody asked for: more measles cases than any year since 1991, six decades after a vaccine was first developed. Fear and misinformation convinced families to walk away from settled science. Children paid the price. I bring this up not to talk about vaccines, but to talk about literacy. On July 15, Lynn Vasquez of the New Mexico Public Education Departme...[Read More]