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A professor spent the past year surveying teachers on the use of a phone-free policy in their high school.

Schools increasingly find themselves on the front lines of managing the ripple effects of students’ online lives — from digital distractions that interfere with learning to online bullying and harmful content — leaving educators to address these challenges without the tools or authority to intervene effectively. In response, one social media platform is partnering directly with schools to create s...[Read More]

Ninety-three percent of students across the United States have used AI at least once or twice for school-related purposes, according to the latest AI in Education report from Microsoft.

I’m entering my fifth year as the founder of a microschool, a small learning environment that currently serves approximately 20 students. After five years, this milestone is more than just a number — it is a symbol of survival, resistance and a promise kept to the children I refused to give up on. My journey didn’t begin with entrepreneurship. It began with heartbreak, repeated heartbreak, in clas...[Read More]

Figuring out the best colleges is big business. College rankings stay in the headlines for weeks after each release, and schools proudly tout their positions among their peers in marketing material. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. It’s simple enough to figure out which schools produce the highest-paid graduates — federal data can provide that easily. Arguably one of the most impo...[Read More]

The Linux Foundation has announced it will host the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol project, an open standard originally developed by Google to support secure communication and interoperability among AI agents.

IBM has introduced a new software stack for enterprise IT teams tasked with managing the complex governance and security challenges posed by autonomous AI systems.

Learning platform Quizizz has become Wayground, in a rebranding meant to reflect “the platform’s evolution from a quiz tool into a more versatile supplemental learning platform that’s supported by AI,” according to a news announcement.

By: Kendra Eboigbodin, M.Ed. The Role of Assessments in Driving Learning During our academic success consultations and tours, most parents with children in grades 3-5 ask, “Does my child have to take the test?” The test they refer to is the STAAR Test, a standardized state assessment in Texas used to measure mastery in reading, writing, science, and math. However, many parents and educators questi...[Read More]

When Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to help prepare children to one day enter elementary school. Fast forward 13 years, and she is one of a growing number of teachers who have been tasked with expanding what is now essentially seen as an important additional early grade level across the entire California school...[Read More]

According to a recent report from cybersecurity firm Wiz, nearly nine out of 10 organizations are already using AI services in the cloud — but fewer than one in seven have implemented AI-specific security controls.