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The main opponents to campaigns seeking bans on cell phones in schools are not the kids themselves, but their parents.

What Kids Are Actually Using Phones for in School Is So Pathetic That We May Need to Take a Quick Walk for Mental Health Purposes

By Noor Al-Sibai

A charter school in Arizona promises to teach kids twice as fast using a specialized AI model rather than a traditional teacher.

Artificial Intelligence

A New School Will Teach Children Using AI Instead of Human Teachers

By Frank Landymore

UCLA says it is offering a new comparative literature course that will make heavy use of AI materials, included an AI-generated textbook.

Artificial Intelligence

UCLA’s AI-Based Literature Class Ridiculed for Incomprehensible AI-Generated Textbook

By Frank Landymore

Parents Sue School for Punishing Their Son for Copy-Pasting AI Homework, Get Rude Wakeup Call

Artificial Intelligence

Parents Sue School for Punishing Their Son for Copy-Pasting AI Homework, Get Rude Wakeup Call

By Frank Landymore

After duping the Los Angeles school system into giving her gobs of money, the founder of an AI firm allegedly spent a lot of it on herself.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Founder Promised Amazing Chatbot to Public Schools, Then Allegedly Spent the Money on a Lavish Wedding and Mansion

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Massachusetts teacher gave a kid a bad grade for using generative AI to complete an assignment. His parents are suing the school.

Artificial Intelligence

Parents Sue School After Teacher Sends Son to Detention for Using AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A high school in London, UK is looking to start replacing educators with AI tools, a move that has garnered plenty of criticism.

Artificial Intelligence

High School Starts Replacing Teachers With AI

By Victor Tangermann

A Baltimore-area educator has been arrested after he allegedly used AI to deepfake his school's principal into spewing bigotry for blackmail.

Artificial Intelligence

Gym Teacher Arrested for Using AI to Make Principal Say Racist Things

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Daily Beast reports that Boston University suggested its professors should use AI to replace the work of striking graduate students.

Artificial Intelligence

University Leadership Suggest Using AI to Replace Striking Grad Students

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As Axios reports, a new software called Writable is allowing teachers to have ChatGPT evaluate papers for them.

Lazy High School Teachers Using ChatGPT for Grading

By Victor Tangermann

It's not just you — college students are having trouble reading, too, and according to one college teacher, that's major cause for concern.

College Students Basically Don’t Know How to Read Anymore

By Noor Al-Sibai

A British boarding school has recruited two artificial intelligence chatbots to serve as the school's "principal headteacher" and head of AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Prep School Appoints AI Chatbots to Executive Staff Roles

By Noor Al-Sibai

Got a billion dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Consider: donating it to Harvard Medical School in exchange for naming rights.

Science & Energy

Harvard Says That for $1 Billion, You Can Rename Its Medical School

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Feeling anxious about going to school? A school district in Kumamoto, Japan thinks it might have a solution: wheeled telepresence robots.

Japanese Schools Installing Telepresence Robots for Students Who Want to Stay Home

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Harvard study says Ivy League universities discriminates against lower income students while preferring to admit people from the top 1%.

Researchers Find That Top Colleges Discriminate Against Low Income Students Even When They’re Just as Smart as Rich Ones

By Sharon Adarlo

Starting in September, a popular intro-level coding course at Harvard University, CS50, will be taught by an AI professor.

Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Will Teach Students Using an AI Instructor Next Semester

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chegg, an online tutoring company that once dominated its industry, is majorly hurting in the wake of ChatGPT.

Online Tutoring Company Stock Crashes as ChatGPT Steamrolls Its Business

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an ironic twist on a rapidly-manifested trope, a high school teacher has admitted to using OpenAI's ChatGPT to help her create lesson plans.

High School Teacher Confesses to Using ChatGPT for Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

College admissions are at an all-time low in the wake of COVID-19 because it seems, would-be students don't think it's worth the money anymore.

A Shocking Percentage of High School Graduates Are Absolutely Refusing to Go to College

By Noor Al-Sibai

Leaked messages from CNET's parent company, Red Ventures, show deep concern about a potential consequence of AI-generated content.

Artificial Intelligence

Leaked Messages Show How CNET’s Parent Company Really Sees AI-Generated Content

By Jon Christian

Online course provider Study.com asked 1,000 students over the age of 18 about the use of ChatGPT, and found almost half already used it to cheat.

Artificial Intelligence

89 Percent of College Students Admit to Using ChatGPT for Homework, Study Claims

By Victor Tangermann

Bad news for social media stans: researchers have compelling reasons to believe that using these apps may be making you depressed.

Health & Medicine

Surprise, Surprise: Social Media Use Strongly Linked to Depression

By Noor Al-Sibai

The National Center for Education Statistics released a report that found COVID-19 and the pandemic caused student performance to backslide.

American Kids’ Math and Reading Scores Have Plummeted Since the Pandemic

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Pearson education company is looking to recoup some of the money it loses when people resell its expensive books...by turning those textbooks into NFTs.

Great, They’re Turning Expensive College Textbooks into NFTs Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an interview with Science, cosmologist and busy Twitter user Katie Mack laid out some of the weirdest and silliest "facts" about space she's seen.

Cosmologist Lists the Stupidest Things People Believe About Space

By Victor Tangermann

A professor at Canada's York University refused to reschedule an exam that a student in Myanmar was unable to take because of a military coup.

Professor Refuses to Reschedule Exam Because of Military Coup

By Dan Robitzski

Medical schools can perpetrate outdated assumptions about race and health as part of doctors' education, and scientists have ideas on how to fix it.

Scientists: Medical School Educations Still Shockingly Racist

By Dan Robitzski

Colleges that pivoted to online education still need to find out how to do science labwork — some are mailing animal parts to students to dissect at home.

Colleges Are Mailing Brains to Students to Dissect at Home

By Dan Robitzski

As colleges and universities open their doors, it's becoming clear that they are not prepared to offer mental healthcare to everyone who will need it.

The Mental Healthcare Crisis Coming to American Universities

By Dan Robitzski

According to new rankings, the U.S. only has the 28th best quality of life in the world, and has some of the worst access to education and healthcare.

New Research: Quality of Life Is Slipping Backwards in the US

By Dan Robitzski

At "COVID parties," college students in Alabama are reportedly trying to catch the deadly coronavirus — and win a cash prize for doing so.

College Kids Are Apparently Playing a Game Where They Try to Catch COVID [UPDATED]

By Jon Christian

As schoolchildren stay home during formative periods of their childhood, scientists are predicting they'll face educational setbacks for years.

Scientists Predict the Pandemic Will Set Students Back for Years

By Dan Robitzski

A student getting his master's degree in business decided that he didn't want to write some essays. So he had AI do his homework it instead.

Artificial Intelligence

This Grad Student Used a Neural Network to Write His Papers

By Dan Robitzski

The coronavirus pandemic has been a challenge for schools. But once teachers work out the kinks, remote education could revolutionize how we learn science.

Scientists: Remote Education Could Transform How We Teach Science

By Dan Robitzski

Phil Schiller, the head of marketing at Apple, argues that students with Chromebooks in their classroom instead of iPads won't succeed.

Science & Energy

Apple Exec: Kids With Chromebooks Are “Not Going to Succeed”

By Dan Robitzski

In September 2020, Italy will begin making it mandatory for students to learn about climate change in school for 33 hours per year.

Italy Will Soon Force Public Schools to Teach Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Hundreds of schools in the U.S. have traded in the physical hall pass for an app called e-Hallpass — and It has some parents furious.

Schools Are Using an App to Track Students While They Pee

By Kristin Houser

China plans to "curb and regulate" the use of facial recognition technology in its schools, according to officials from the Ministry of Education.

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Surprise Move: China to Curb Use of Facial Recognition in Schools

By Kristin Houser

Chinese students are already interacting with AI teachers, and what they learn could affect the future of education on a global scale.

China’s AI Teachers Could Revolutionize Education Worldwide

By Kristin Houser

Across the U.S., parents are buying bulletproof backpacks for their children in an effort to protect them against school shootings.

Fearful Parents Are Buying Bulletproof Backpacks for Their Kids

By Kristin Houser

Students in Oregon can now miss school for "mental health days," making the state one of the first to offer excused absenses for mental illness.

New Law Lets Students Miss School For “Mental Health Days”

By Kristin Houser

Nickelodeon is sending a batch of its iconic slime to the astronauts aboard the ISS to be used for experiments, which will be filmed and later broadcast.

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Astronauts on the ISS Are About to Get Slimed — for Science

By Kristin Houser

New York's State Education Department has asked a public school district to delay its trial of a facial recognition system on students and staff.

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State Attempts to Nix Public School’s Facial Recognition Plans

By Kristin Houser

In eight states, high schools are now offering esports as a varsity level sport for students, according to CNN — a glimpse of the future of sports.

Schools in Eight States Now Have Varsity Video Game Teams

By Natalie Coleman

Several Chinese schools have started making students wear brain-scanning headbands that can detect when they start to lose focus or slack off.

In Chinese Schools, Brain-Reading Headbands Measure Student Focus

By Dan Robitzski

The wealthy are doing what they can to limit the screen time of themselves and their children, spending money on "screen-free" schools and experiences.

Tech Used to Be for the Rich. Now They’re Paying to Avoid It.

By Kristin Houser

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates issued a grave warning Monday, comparing advanced artificial intelligence to nuclear weapons.

Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates Compares Artificial Intelligence to Nuclear Weapons

By Jon Christian

An App That Does Your Homework for You Is Now Worth $3 Billion

An App That Does Your Homework for You Is Now Worth $3 Billion

By Kristin Houser

In 2017, Bina48 became the first AI-powered robot to complete a college-level course, and now, it's the first to co-teach one.

Artificial Intelligence

A Humanoid Robot Gave a Lecture in a West Point Philosophy Course

By Kristin Houser

MIT announced a billion-dollar initiative Monday that will reorganize the tech school to confront the rise of artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Pledges $1 Billion to Develop Ethical AI

By Jon Christian

The World’s First Digital Teacher Just Debuted in New Zealand

Artificial Intelligence

The World’s First Digital Teacher Just Debuted in New Zealand

By Kristin Houser

Not Paying Attention in Class? China’s “Smart Eye” Will Snitch on You

Not Paying Attention in Class? China’s “Smart Eye” Will Snitch on You

By Kristin Houser

The Military Just Created An AI That Learned How To Program Software

The Military Just Created An AI That Learned How To Program Software

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Nye: “I Predict No One Is Going To Want To Settle on Mars”

Bill Nye: “I Predict No One Is Going To Want To Settle on Mars”

By Alexandra Ossola

The Solution to Our Education Crisis Might be AI

The Solution to Our Education Crisis Might be AI

By Kristin Houser

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World Bank Chief: Robots Have Put Us on a Dangerous “Crash Course”

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Elon Musk’s Latest Future Investment? Programs Revolutionizing Education

Expert: We Need to Change How We Teach STEM Subjects to Young People

Expert: We Need to Change How We Teach STEM Subjects to Young People

The Way That Students Learn Today Is Wrong

Virtual Reality

The Way That Students Learn Today Is Wrong

By Peter H. Diamandis

The Solution to Automation in the Workforce Could Be Retraining

Artificial Intelligence

The Solution to Automation in the Workforce Could Be Retraining

Automation Could Lead to the World’s Smartest Society

Automation Could Lead to the World’s Smartest Society

By Benjamin Stecher

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Ron Howard: “More Than Ever, Science Is Changing Our Lives”

By Patrick Caughill

With Automation Looming, the US Needs To Make Education Affordable Or Fail

With Automation Looming, the US Needs To Make Education Affordable Or Fail

By Patrick Caughill

Canada: Here’s How We’re Preparing for the Automation of Human Jobs

Canada: Here’s How We’re Preparing for the Automation of Human Jobs

By Chelsea Gohd