Members of Generation Z – those born between 1997 and 2012 – are growing more cautious about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in education, where rising use of the technology in schools is being met with skepticism about its effect on learning and academic integrity, according to a new survey from the Walton Family Foundation and Gallup.
The Department of Education finalized a policy on Monday that prioritizes artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives in discretionary grant competitions, following feedback from more than 300 public comments on the proposal first issued last year.
The Trump administration’s fiscal year (FY) 2027 budget request for the Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) takes broad aim at the office’s effectiveness and proposes to cut its annual funding by more than a half billion dollars from the FY 2025 level.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has appointed Jeffrey Bardzell as the Worcester, Mass.-based technological university’s new Peterson Family Dean of Arts and Sciences, heading up its computer science academic department and interdisciplinary programs in artificial intelligence (AI), among other areas.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $11 million to the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) to launch a multistate initiative to prepare thousands of K-12 educators to teach foundational computer science (CS) and artificial intelligence (AI).
Bellingham, Wash.-based Whatcom Community College is launching a new bachelor of science in computer science degree that it says focuses on increasingly in-demand skills.
A Louisiana-based education technology company announced last week plans to expand its East Baton Rouge Parish headquarters, backing development and national distribution of the company’s K-12 tutoring and literacy software platforms.
Miles College, a historically Black college based in Fairfield, Ala., is rolling out a new “Access for All” program that aims to provide workforce preparedness skills in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to hundreds of Alabama high school students.
Morgan State University has hired Timothy Summers as chief information officer (CIO) and vice president of information technology at the Baltimore-based historically black research university.
Texas community college system operator Dallas College has appointed Michael Anderson as chief information security officer (CISO).
