Children & education

Generative AI tools can produce polished academic text on demand, undermining the validity of assessments that treat written submissions as evidence of individual learning. Detection-based countermeasures have demonstrated variable accuracy and equity concerns. This paper does not report empirical outcomes or validation data. It proposes a framework for AI-resilient assessment that shifts evaluation from product quality to demonstrable reasoning, decision-making, and ownership of learning. The f

A teenage student subjected to a four-year "catfishing" nightmare after her identity was stolen by another teenage girl in her town has won a £10,000 High Court damages payout. Starting when she was only 16, Sasha Davies was targeted by "c ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1592#7520)

On 3 July, the Steering Committee meeting of the Council of Europe Project “HELP (Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals) for Ukraine, including during wartime", Phase II was held in a hybrid ...

Dean's two-night arena stand reflects just how fast the British singer has gone from promising rising act to bona fide superstar.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a high-speed internet grant program signed into law by President Biden unconstitutionally used race as a factor in deciding where to dole out the funds. U.S. District Judge John Bates heavily cited the Supreme Court’s decision invalidating affirmative action in higher education admissions in agreeing with President Trump, who...

The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood "knowingly and intentionally used Grok to circumvent safeguards, alter nonconsensual images, and generate and distribute CSAM," breaching the […]

YouTube has appealed the landmark social media addiction verdict, joining Meta. Its argument: YouTube is not a social media platform. YouTube has a curious line of defence against the finding that it helped hook a child on its app. It says it is not a social media platform at all. The Google-owned video service has […] This story continues at The Next Web

UCLA’S School of Theater, Film and Television and the Sundance Institute have set a collaboration to develop the next generation of filmmakers and storytellers. The five-year agreement is targeted to begin in September. The pact combines UCLA’s academic resources with Sundance Institute’s experience and Sundance Collab’s international community of more than 130,000 artists across 177 […]

Background: Hypertension is a major global health challenge, and effective health education is crucial for improving patients’ self-management. Traditional health education approaches are often limited by insufficient personalization, accessibility, and scalability. Artificial intelligence (AI), including natural language processing, machine learning, and large language models (LLMs), offers promising solutions to address these limitations. However, evidence regarding AI applications in hyperten

Monumental BV, a Dutch startup that operates a fleet of bricklaying robots, has raised $35 million in funding. Khosla Ventures led the Series B investment. Monumental stated in its funding announcement today that existing backers Plural and Hummingbird chipped in as well. Monumental uses robots to construct the walls of homes, schools and other buildings. […] The post Construction robot startup Monumental reels in $32M appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Both Prime Video and Peacock have already released documentary programming on the tragedy.

We study on-policy distillation (OPD) for agentic tasks, where an LLM agent interacts with an environment over multiple turns and a student imitates a teacher over these multi-turn interaction histories. Fully online OPD is costly because each update requires fresh student rollouts through the environment and teacher queries at visited histories. We propose Replayed-Prefix On-Policy Distillation (ReOPD), an off-environment alternative that reuses pre-collected teacher trajectories as replayed pr

As generative AI (GenAI) becomes increasingly embedded in undergraduate academic writing, how students rely on these tools, rather than simply whether they use them, has become a central question for learning, academic integrity, and educational equity. Existing measures of reliance were developed inductively, focused on discrete problem-solving tasks, and validated mainly with homogeneous samples. This study developed and validated the GenAI Reliance Types Scale (GenAI-RTS), a 20-item instrumen

The lawsuit highlighted concerns that the privacy of Apple’s iCloud allows illegal material to be easily stored and shared on the service.

Second lady Usha Vance on Wednesday launched her summer reading challenge's prize website, where children can choose rewards after submitting their reading logs. “The Second Lady's Summer Reading Challenge seeks to combat summer learning declines and encourage childhood literacy through friendly competition and rewards," the second lady wrote in her announcement. Any child between kindergarten...

From firms to law schools, innocent bystanders take heat. The post Collateral Damage Across The Legal Industry appeared first on Above the Law .

Anthropic, one of the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence companies, is launching a version of its AI-powered assistant Claude for teachers, entering a race by technology companies to infuse AI into education. Anthropic boasts that its product can incorporate academic standards from all 50 states, and teachers can use it to help devise lesson plans, […]

This paper presents Earthquaker-AI, a hybrid educational framework building upon a previously implemented educational robotics project by integrating a conversational AI assistant based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation. It aims to enhance earthquake preparedness and conscious action among primary-school students. The system extends the award-winning STEM project Earthquaker moving from mechanical simulation with Lego WeDo2 to cognitive and metacognitive processing. The robotics component uses L

The effort to age gate the internet is back in Washington—and now it has a new name. Recently passed by the House of Representatives, the KIDS Act is a sprawling package of proposals to control what we can see and say online. Supporters claim the KIDS Act is needed to protect minors online. But if lawmakers really want to make the internet safer, why are they encouraging more surveillance instead of protecting our privacy? We dive into this question with our EFFector newsletter . JOIN OUR NEWSLE

A study led by researchers at NTU Singapore's Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine has found that many developers creating artificial intelligence (AI) tools for healthcare have limited familiarity with ...

Co-authored by Jack Maketa, U.S. Legislation Intern On June 30, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) submitted comments in response to the California Department of Justice’s (the Department’s) ongoing rulemaking process for the “Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act” (the Act or SB 976). Signed into law in 2024, SB 976 bars operators […]

Family preferences on childcare arrangements vary, sometimes wildly, but many parents consistently report a desire to be able to care for their young children themselves and for trusted family, friends and neighbors to be able to do so. Childcare policy, though, has historically been designed without fully accounting for what families actually say they want. […]

Indiana K-12 schools must meet new standards before seeking approval to implement a four-day school week. The model, once favored by rural schools due to a shortage of bus drivers, is spreading nationwide to urban and suburban districts seeking to recruit teachers and students by extending the school day, so students and staff can take […]

TVS VENU Group-led NBFC Home Credit India has approved the complete acquisition of education-focused NBFC Varthana Finance in an all-cash…

Enterprises are moving fast to adopt voice AI. Across ecommerce, banking, education, recruitment and customer support, companies want voice agents…

Picture a second grader who is struggling to read at a school trying hard to fix that. He gets his regular classroom lessons, is pulled out for intervention during the day and works with a tutor. On paper, he is a child surrounded by support. But here’s what it feels like from his seat. In […]

Access to education continues to worsen in the West Bank, the United Nations reported on Wednesday. Ten schools in Area C of the West Bank were recently abandoned due to settler attacks and access ...

The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order with Vanilla Chip LLC—which does business as TruHeight—and its two principals requiring them to pay $750,000, while barring them from making false or unsupported health claims and using fake or incentivized consumer reviews. View Press Release

A UK government-backed study finds nearly two in five children have bypassed online age checks, mainly by lying about their age. The findings raise questions about the effectiveness of age assurance systems under the Online Safety Act. The post 39% of UK children bypass age checks, mostly by lying about their age: Report appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

We built a compact convolutional network (1.11 M parameters) for 46-class DHCD Devanagari recognition and reached 99.73%, the highest reported at 15.6x smaller than prior state-of-the-art. We have effectively reached the saturation point: every model tested, large teacher ensembles included, hits the same 11-error intrinsic floor. No configuration achieves a statistically clear win under exact McNemar tests with Wilson confidence intervals. Even without knowledge distillation, our student matche

I run into a former student of mine, outside of school. “How are you, miss?” he asks. I respond in our native tongue, “Muy bien, ¿y tú?” We chat briefly about students from our class, and I ask about Camila — a silly ninth grader who always brightened our days. “Hay … la deportaron, miss,” […]

There is no clear evidence that AI or other kinds of computer-based tutors are superior to human tutors.

Over the past decade, the AI -focused, for-profit Alpha School has grown from one campus in Austin to a growing list of more than 15 schools across the country, including in major cities like New York and San Francisco. Alpha School joins other AI-centric K-12 private schools , like Unbound Academy and the Khan Lab School , that parents can now choose for their children, paying anywhere from $40,000 to $75,000 per year in some cases. Some advocates of AI-driven education use slogans like “ Schoo

The post This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It. appeared first on ProPublica .

There is no clear evidence that AI or other kinds of computer-based tutors are superior to human tutors.

There is no clear evidence that AI or other kinds of computer-based tutors are superior to human tutors.

There is no clear evidence that AI or other kinds of computer-based tutors are superior to human tutors.

There is no clear evidence that AI or other kinds of computer-based tutors are superior to human tutors.

In brief On 17 June 2026, the UAE Cabinet issued Resolution No. 106 of 2026, the first detailed instrument under the Child Digital Safety Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 26 of 2025). It introduces a hard age limit for social media, backed by mandatory age verification, and applies to any social media platform operating in or directed [...] The post United Arab Emirates: Legislation Issued Banning Under-15s from Social Media appeared first on Connect On Tech .