Children & education

Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney's, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly. So one might expect he'd roll into the company's offices and offer […]

Australia risks ‘shipping’ intellectual capability overseas if educational rigour not restored, experts warn Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast An academic at the Australian National University has accused it of a “hysterical” response to students using AI to cheat, as tertiary institutions rush to shore up the credibility of assessments. But a colleague warned Australia is in danger of “shipping our national intell

Weeks before the first day of school, teachers across Mississippi say state leaders have made it more difficult for them to access money for classroom supplies. Educators have to complete training before they’re able to spend the money the state gives them for classroom supplies, but teachers say the live training has been hard to […]

OpenAI will send a notification to parents with linked teen accounts if their children have violated its policies around violence.

Half a year since Australia restricted social media companies from providing accounts to kids under 16, signs of success are beginning to show.

During the school year, Mānoa Heritage Center hosts students of all ages learning about native plants, Hawaiian culture and history. But on a recent summer morning, teachers donned name tags, explored the gardens and diligently took notes as they became students for the day. On Thursday, 20 educators gathered for a professional development workshop, spending […]

Disney and Life360's collaboration introduces three new Tile Bluetooth trackers for Android and Apple devices, combining Mickey and Minnie with advanced location and safety features.

Publication date: Available online 16 July 2026 Source: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence Author(s): Moeketsi Mosia, Fadip Audu Nannim, Felix Egara

Publication date: Available online 16 July 2026 Source: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence Author(s): Kamila Misiejuk, Sonsoles López-Pernas, Eduardo Araujo Oliveira, Brendan Eagan, Mohammed Saqr

The post How a Man Once Ordered to Pay Libel Damages Helped Launch an Investigation Into Islamic Private Schools appeared first on ProPublica .

Matt Damon has cemented himself as one of the defining actors of his generation, building a career that balances blockbuster stardom with acclaimed dramatic work. To celebrate the actor, Variety is ranking his 12 best film performances. After getting his start with small roles in films such as “Mystic Pizza” (1988) and the prep-school drama […]

Advocates urge stakeholders to contact lawmakers as the Republican-led agency considers changes to the $2.5 billion broadband subsidy.

On-policy knowledge distillation transfers reasoning from large teachers to compact students, but existing approaches suffer three compounding failure modes: (i) cold-start collapse, where a fresh student assigns near-zero mass to teacher-preferred tokens; (ii) state-agnostic divergence scheduling, where time-only forward/reverse-KL interpolation ignores the student's coverage state; and (iii) binary reward sparsity, where pass/fail signals discard information from partially correct traces. We p

Tesla launched a $225 balance bike for children aged 2 to 5. It has no motor, no pedals, no brakes, and is powered entirely by toddler legs. The lightweight white magnesium frame comes with a five-way adjustable seat, the Tesla wordmark on the side, and the T logo on the front. It sold out immediately, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Bills this week aim to regulate how children interact with and learn about AI, give America’s farmers more AI equipment and add AI regulation to Medicare claim denials.

Acting Secretary Keith Sonderling said the DOL, National Science Foundation and Education Department are working on developing the curriculum for U.S. students. The post Labor Department eyes AI curriculum akin to China’s teachings appeared first on FedScoop .

Generative AI is increasingly used for feedback in higher education, but evidence from repeated classroom use remains limited. This short paper analyses 2988 reflective essay-feedback-appraisal instances from 283 Estonian bachelor students across one semester. Students obtained and assessed feedback from a self-selected AI tool using a uniform prompt. The present analysis of the anonymized text corpus covers essay content, AI feedback, and its perceived helpfulness. Students found feedback helpf

I watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off which was as great as I remember. It has an age rating of PG-13 in the US and 15 in the UK for bad language and some kissing. (There is also lying to parents but apparently that doesn’t count.) This seems absurd. I have way less problem with some light cursing/petting than films that are ostensibly for kids like cartoons and superhero movies that treat mass existential threat as an incident plot point in the hero’s journey. Like: Frozen 2 in which the entire ci

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is again joining a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education as it continues trying to end federal grants for school-based mental health services. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Tong joined a lawsuit about these same grants one year ago. That’s when the Department of Education initially discontinued the […]

From the various translations to mythology-inspired novels to introductory fare for kids

California’s latest budget includes $116 million over three years to help schools identify and support students experiencing homelessness — the first time the state has dedicated funding specifically for this purpose. Homeless student advocates welcomed the investment after years of lobbying lawmakers to supplement the federal dollars California gets annually to address student homelessness. However, […]

Healthcare, coding education, digital payments and youth employment are among the initiatives organisations are supporting as they mark Mandela Day.

Data-free knowledge distillation transfers the knowledge encoded in a teacher model to a student model without access to the original training data. Prior work such as Contrastive Abductive Knowledge Extraction (CAKE) achieves this for classifiers by synthesizing samples near the teacher's decision boundary. In this work, we investigate whether this boundary-seeking principle extends to autoencoder distillation through experiments on the MNIST dataset . To enable a direct comparison, we reformul

The school year starts again in less than a month, and a remarkable number of big districts in Colorado and elsewhere will open it without a permanent superintendent. Jeffco. Cherry Creek. Los Angeles. Miami-Dade. I’m guessing Denver will soon join this group of districts given the Denver school board’s growing frustrations with Superintendent Alex Marrero’s […]

Studies increasingly show that how kids are using screens is more important than the exact amount of time they’re spending on them – and parents and caregivers tend to know what’s best for their families.

During her mentoring of young people in STEM, she met deaf students struggling through STEM classes because qualified sign language interpreters were scarce. It struck her as an engineering problem as much as an educational one.

Tesla's Autopilot may fail to recognize children at times, but the company certainly recognizes their potential as future buyers.

Experts from across the world debated whether age verification can protect children without undermining privacy, anonymity and free expression. The post Privacy-preserving age verification is contradictory by design, says EDRi advisor at SFLC discussion appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Isuzu Motors sets up a R2 million AI, coding and robotics lab at Khulile Primary School in the Eastern Cape.

I stand alone on a stage in front of 200 high school freshmen. They’re looking at their phones, talking to one other, laughing — paying attention to anything but me. I pick up my guitar, strum a chord and start singing, first in almost a whisper: “Who am I, mind on fire, born of you […]

The Spotify managed accounts for children of 13 years age and below would be available in 6 countries like UK, US, Germany where parents can create these separate accounts for kids and control the settings. The post Spotify expands free managed accounts for children to six new markets appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Netflix is scaling generative AI across content production while expanding cloud gaming, children’s games and new entertainment formats, executives said during its Q2 2026 earnings call. The post Netflix Q2FY26: AI now powers 300+ titles as cloud gaming logs 11x growth in active players appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Generative AI (GenAI) is increasingly used by students for programming explanation, debugging, and assignment support. Yet unrestricted large language model (LLM) tutors can hallucinate, contradict course policy, reveal complete solutions, and foster passive dependence. This paper presents EduGuard, a safe retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) tutoring framework for introductory programming. EduGuard integrates query understanding, instructor-approved course retrieval, pedagogical strategy select

The Cyborg 15 is versatile enough to handle work, school, and the latest PC games.

New College of Florida Absorbs a USF Campus. Sort Of. Ryan Quinn Fri, 07/17/2026 - 03:00 AM The property has changed hands, but the students and employees didn’t go with it. And there’s a reversion clause if New College can’t handle the debt. Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

DOJ Sues Maryland Over In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students Sara Weissman Fri, 07/17/2026 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Sara Weissman

SJSU Grad Student Arrested for ‘Hateful and Threatening’ Campus Graffiti kathryn.palmer… Fri, 07/17/2026 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

Rise of Chinese Social Media Sleuth ‘Exposes Research Failures’ sara.custer@in… Fri, 07/17/2026 - 03:00 AM Content creator who helped oust top Chinese academics after accusing them of fabricating data promises to strike again. Byline(s) Rosalind Skillen for Times Higher Education

How 4 Colleges Are Expanding Student Success Joshua.Bay Fri, 07/17/2026 - 03:00 AM From academic interventions to childcare and basic needs support, institutions are stepping up efforts to help students persist. Byline(s) Joshua Bay

Iowa Schools Acknowledge Federal Limits on CTE Courses for Undocumented Students Sara Weissman Fri, 07/17/2026 - 03:00 AM Iowa school districts and community colleges had to acknowledge to the state that the federal government opposes undocumented students participating in many college-level career and technical education programs. Byline(s) Sara Weissman