A federal grant will help rural Inyo County students upgrade classrooms to elevate student learning. The $700,000 Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture will support Inyo COE in advancing educational access and equity in local rural and frontier communities by funding the initiative, Inyo LinkEd: Empowering Rural Education Opportunities.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s 2024 update to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires state and local educational agencies to ensure accessibility across all digital platforms, but few are on track to meeting that goal, according to recent findings from the National School Public Relations Association (NSPRA).
Common Sense Media’s recent risk assessment of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for supporting teens’ mental health concluded that overall, the tools pose an “unacceptable” risk as the likelihood of a harmful event occurring is too likely and the consequence of any harm caused is too high.
A recent report from The Center for Democracy and Technology, Hand in Hand: Schools’ Embrace of AI Connected to Increased Risks to Students, provides the results of nationally representative surveys of high school students, middle and high school teachers and parents regarding artificial intelligence (AI) in 2024–25 and four emerging hazards related to its use in education.
Artificial intelligence (AI) was a top education technology (edtech) priority for states during the 2024–25 academic year, surpassing cybersecurity for the first time, according to the 2025 State EdTech Trends Report by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) in collaboration with Whiteboard Advisors.
Common Sense Media’s recent report Boys in the Digital Wild: Online Culture, Identity, and Well-Being summarizes the findings of a nationally representative survey of 1,017 boys ages 11-17 to get a sense of “how digital environments shape masculine identity development during adolescence.”
While cellphones seem to have a permanent place in society, their position on TK-12 campuses is still being established.
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools offer genuine benefits for educators when used correctly. However, without proper training, oversight and integration into schools, teacher assistant platforms including Google Classroom’s Gemini Teacher Assistant, Khanmigo’s Teacher Assistant, Curipod and MagicSchool pose a risk to students, according to a […]
More Americans support school cellphone bans compared to last year, with 74 percent adults saying they would support banning middle and high school students from using their devices in class — up from 68 percent in fall 2024, according to data released in July by […]
Results from a recent survey of 200 National School Public Relations Association (NSPRA) members from K-12 districts nationwide found that artificial intelligence (AI) tools are rapidly transforming how school districts connect with their communities, and details how these tools are being used and what policies, […]
