Children & education

A top European Union official on Monday called for limits to be placed on children using social media as a special EU panel looking into the challenge recommended forbidding access for those under 13 until tech companies can prove their platforms are safe. Growing awareness of the dangers social media poses for young, developing brains has shown up in a wave of new restrictions globally. Australia , the U.K. , Turkey, Indonesia and others have passed bans on kids under 16 or 15 from using platfo

Generating and editing a person's face demands high precision, as even minor modifications can significantly alter a subject's perceived identity. Current personalization and editing methods built on general-purpose text-to-image models, however, often lack the precision required for fine-grained facial edits. We present a method for fine-grained identity tuning in text-to-image personalization models. Unlike standard image editing, which operates on a given image, identity tuning modifies the l

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on high-school and olympiad-style mathematics, yet their capabilities on advanced mathematics remain poorly understood. Existing benchmarks, however, fall short in both scope and evaluation granularity: they provide limited disciplinary coverage and often rely on final-answer correctness or coarse judgments, leaving the validity of the reasoning process inadequately assessed. To bridge this gap, we introduce AdvancedMathBench, a b

After the release of a new report, the European Commission is considering changing the rules across the 27-nation bloc.

For anyone who cares about student literacy, the past few years have given us reason to cheer. While trends in national test scores, young people’s reading habits, and talk of a “learning recession” are clear causes for concern, there’s another side to the story. More than 40 states now mandate evidence-based reading instruction in public […]

Instead of schools trying to replace teachers with AI, teachers could use AI to become better educators.

Within a year of deploying SchoolTry for higher education, the startup generated more revenue than it made in three years deploying SchoolTry for K-12.

What GAO Found Training and development programs help federal agencies achieve their mission and goals by improving individual and, ultimately, organizational performance. This report is a guide that federal agencies can use to ensure their training and development investments are targeted strategically. In recent years, training and development have shifted from primarily classroom-based instruction to more integrated, blended learning approaches that reflect changes in the workplace and advanc

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Brussels will propose gradual access for different ages in response to concerns over child safety online

The promise of AI literacy ``for all'' confronts a structural challenge embedded in how nations organise secondary computer science education. In most systems, a general-track subject -- Digital Literacy, ICT, TIC, or SNT -- bears the weight of universal AI literacy, while a specialist Informatics course serves STEM pathways separately. Yet the content and depth of the general track are shaped by governance decisions made largely with reference to the specialist one. This paper presents a compar

Special panel report: Child safety online protecting and empowering minors in a digital world Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/13/2026 - 11:15 As announced in the 2025 State of the Union address, President von der Leyen set up a special panel of experts to develop a strong and practical European approach to keep children safe online. The panel's co-chairs presented their final report in July 2026. The report highlights the critical challenges children face online and provides recommendations and

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as conversational tutors, they risk institutionalizing systemic inequalities. This study presents a systematic API audit of four LLMs acting as history tutors, evaluating 1,800 responses regarding the 1989 Romanian Revolution across five student personas varying by ethnicity and socio-economic tier. We uncover four interconnected patterns of \emph{epistemic paternalism}: (1)~\textbf{Differential Refusal}, where safety-aligned models block

Pathology Foundation Models (PFMs) offer powerful Whole Slide Image (WSI) representations but suffer from massive computational costs. While Knowledge Distillation (KD) can create efficient student models, existing multi-teacher methods often use suboptimal uniform weighting that ignores tissue heterogeneity. We propose LaGuadia (Language-Guided Adaptive DistillAtion), a framework that develops a compact pathology image encoder by dynamically integrating expertise from multiple PFMs under clinic

According to information from the STEM Education Promotion Alliance (SEPA) on July 11th, the two Vietnamese teams excellently won second place in the Junior and Senior categories of the Robotics for Good Youth Challenge 2026 Global Finals. The post Vietnam won two second prizes at the global finals of the Robotics for Good 2026 competition appeared first on AI for Good .

State regulators are ramping up children's privacy enforcement, focusing on parental consent, company knowledge of minors, and protective safeguards.

This innovative practice full paper presents FORAP (Framework for Organizing Reusable and Adaptable PjBL Projects) and a portfolio of 14 adoption-ready project-based learning (PjBL) project packages built with the framework. PjBL in computing education offers strong educational benefits, yet its adoption remains limited by high instructor workload and recurring student technical challenges. FORAP addresses these barriers by organizing each package around a project designed with aligned learning

The European Union should restrict access to social media for children aged under 13, a special online child safety advisory panel told Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday. As she ...

Researchers developed an auditing technique to test generative AI models for malicious capabilities, without prompting them for illegal outputs.

IntroductionGenerative artificial intelligence is increasingly used in higher education, yet its educational value depends not only on technological access but also on how its use is pedagogically regulated. This study examined how teacher-regulated generative AI support is associated with university students' perceived learning gains in higher education. It further tested whether student agency mediates this association and whether perceived fairness conditions the strength of the association b

A snapshot of where districts stand on AI and what it reveals.

Release: shot-scraper 1.11 Some minor improvements, mainly around command option consistency and making the server: mechanism used by both shot-scraper video and shot-scraper multi work if the server takes longer than a second to start serving traffic. server: processes used by shot-scraper multi and shot-scraper video now wait up to 30 seconds for the target URL to accept connections, polling for port availability and replacing the previous fixed one-second delay. #197 The shot-scraper , pdf ,

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For the third year in a row, Gov. Tate Reeves opted out of a state-federal partnership that would have given summer grocery benefits to roughly 320,000 Mississippi children who rely on free meals during the school year. Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia are enrolled in the program, called SUN Bucks, which doles out […]

Nia Jetter spent two decades building spacecraft and robots. Now she is trying to make sure the artificial intelligence revolution doesn't leave anyone behind.

As school administrators map out curricula, schedules and priorities for the next school year, they should be thinking holistically about what kids actually need. Because honestly, young people are not doing well, and education systems aren’t doing enough about it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes what young people are experiencing right now […]

Release: sqlite-utils 4.1 The first dot-release since 4.0 a few days ago , introducing a number of minor new features. sqlite-utils insert and sqlite-utils upsert now accept a --code option for providing a block of Python code (or a path to a .py file) that defines a rows() function or rows iterable of rows to insert, as an alternative to importing from a file. ( #684 ) sqlite-utils already had features that allow you to pass blocks of Python code as CLI arguments, for example this one for the s

Today, 38% of primary school–age children in South Asia and 14% in Sub-Saharan Africa attend private schools. Given the increasing prevalence of private schooling, what should governments, donors and ...

Walk into any college library and you will likely see students wearing headphones and listening to music. The idea that music can improve learning has been around for decades. The “Mozart Effect,” is the pop psychology myth, first hypothesized in a 1993 paper, that listening to classical music can help people retain and process new […]

Dr Jillian Terry SFHEA is Associate Professor (Education) and Co-Director of LSE100, the sector-leading flagship interdisciplinary course taken by all undergraduate students at the London School of ...

Zhang Qi, a ride-hailing driver based in Guangzhou, has turned to artificial intelligence this year to help his son make one of the most important decisions of his young life: choosing a university degree programme. Like millions of 18-year-olds across China, Zhang’s son recently received his university entrance exam results and had to navigate the country’s labyrinthine admissions system – choosing from thousands of programmes at hundreds of schools. Many middle-class families hire expensive...

Upbeat on-hold music blared from Jerrica Mickens’ cellphone for nearly 50 minutes as she searched on her laptop for affordable housing for a parent in Detroit. Mickens was on a three-way call with a mother and a legal aide hotline the morning of April 21 in her Central High School office. As the two waited […]

GENEVA, July 10, 2026 - The AI for Good Global Summit concluded following four days of sessions that demonstrated the widespread application of artificial intelligence in a variety of sectors, including health and agriculture, mobility, education, creative industries, and public policy. The summit also raised awareness of quantum technologies, robotics, and the standards and infrastructure required to facilitate their widespread deployment. The post Day 4 at the AI for Good Global Summit: Women’

In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, Blockchain (BC), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Smart Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are leading and promising technologies in the world that facilitate the current society to develop the quality of living and make it simpler for users. However, these technologies have been applied in various domains for different purposes. These technologies successfully assist in developing the desired system, such as smart cities, homes, education, and

The Red Line Bob Giuffra Drew For Himself Didn't Last: Sullivan & Cromwell said it would never touch the Carroll cases... Sullivan & Cromwell is now touching the Carroll cases. Law School Laptop Ban : Chicago wants to get ahead of AI and decided banning laptops from classrooms was the way to do it . What Is Biglaw Waiting For? : Just announce raises already. Associates are tired of this waiting game. Trump's Supreme Court Redo Requests : Twice in one week, Trump has suggested the Supreme Court g

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Kansas City-based Frontier Schools is on track to open Columbia’s first charter school in the fall of 2027. At this point, Frontier Schools has hired a contractor and is looking for possible locations for the charter school in the city. The Missouri Board of Education approved the opening of the STEM-based elementary school in April, allowing it […]

Planning summer travel is hard. Planning it for a busy family —visiting multiple destinations with three little kids in tow—can feel downright impossible. I’m a professional news and travel photographer, so I need to plan a lot of trips with my wife and our three boys. I’m also an AI expert with a cog sci degree from Johns Hopkins and a decade of experience in the field. So naturally, I decided to combine those two passions. To that end, I built an AI digital twin of my family, which uses multip