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How School Districts Plan to Protect Your Child's Digital Footprint
Learn how school districts are balancing new K-12 cybersecurity policies with mounting parent concerns over AI tracking and student data privacy.
Why School Districts Are Digitizing Teacher Hiring Workflows
Learn how school districts are modernizing hiring workflows using tools like PowerSchool, and what this digital transformation means for data security.
Lawsuit Accuses Microsoft of Harvesting Sensitive Data from K-12 Students
Learn how a new class-action lawsuit against Microsoft exposes the tracking of student emotional data, typing habits, and web browsing in K-12 classrooms.
What China’s Shifting EdTech Market Means for Digital Learning
As China's JH Educational Technology faces declining revenue, learn how state regulations and AI integrations are reshaping global digital learning tools.
OpenAI Expands ChatGPT for Teachers Under New Privacy Rules
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT for Teachers to over 100 districts. Learn how a new 16-state privacy pact protects student data while training educators.
How Pre-K Tablet Play Could Reveal Attention and Focus Struggles
Learn how quiet backend data from apps like Khan Academy Kids can help educators identify executive functioning and attention struggles in preschool children.
New Free 3D Tool Tapestry Brings History to Classroom Browsers
CyArk launches Tapestry, a free web-based 3D platform for immersive virtual history field trips, backed by research showing massive student literacy gains.
School Security Struggles Force Tough Privacy Trade-Offs for Families
Learn how school cybersecurity struggles are forcing districts to monitor or ban student devices, and what parents can do to protect their child's data.
Khan Academy Upgrades AI Tutor With Visual Tools and Teacher Controls
Learn how Khan Academy's new Gemini-powered visual tools and teacher controls aim to improve classroom math and science tutoring while keeping students engaged.
AI Combined with Critical-Thinking Training Yields Best Student Work
A study shows that combining ChatGPT with critical-thinking lessons helps students produce highly original and polished work. Here is how schools can adapt.
Khan Academy Rolls Out New Gemini-Powered AI Tools for Classrooms
Learn how Khan Academy’s new Gemini-powered Khanmigo tools work, what research says about AI math accuracy, and how schools are governing classroom AI.
How AI is Shifting From a Homework Cheat Sheet to an Active Teacher
Learn how educational AI is shifting from a homework cheat sheet to an active tutor that uses productive struggle to help students master math and reading.