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Cruz and Blackburn meet Trump to discuss tech policy
The meeting came ahead of a markup planned for next week on AI policy and kids online safety measures.
Harvard Law Student Has Already Won Nearly $350K On Jeopardy!
And he's working as a Biglaw summer associate at the same time. Wow! The post Harvard Law Student Has Already Won Nearly $350K On Jeopardy! appeared first on Above the Law .
An Explosion of Surveillance Towers is Coming to U.S. Borders, Costing Over $1 Billion
A new report from the Government Accounting Office reveals that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to nearly triple the number of surveillance towers along U.S. borders, from the current 830 to 2,300 by 2034. DHS expects to expend $1 billion in taxpayer dollars for this dangerous expansion of a surveillance network indiscriminately trained on towns, school playgrounds, backyards, and vehicles—threatening the privacy and civil liberties of everyone in the border regions. The towers a
Netflix brings ASL interpretations to dozens of shows and movies for kids
Netflix has teamed up with a company called SignUp Media to offer ASL interpretations on a bunch of kids shows and movies.
Hawaii’s Childcare Shortage Is One of the Nation’s Worst
Nearly every child in Hawaiʻi lives in a community that lacks adequate licensed childcare, with access rates falling far behind the national average, according to recent reports from the Center for American Progress. Challenges finding affordable childcare have also worsened for some families this year as they face delays with receiving state subsidies reducing the […]
Congressional stalemates take wind out of US digital policy sails
U.S. lawmakers risk coming up empty on AI and children's online safety goals again as debates rage on with limited time to legislate.
Contrary to Common Belief, The Poorest School Districts Outspend The Wealthiest
There’s a prevailing principle in the U.S. that funding disparities are at the root of education inequality, with poorer districts receiving less money than their wealthier counterparts. But a recent study has actually found the opposite, documenting that over the past nearly 50 years high-poverty and predominantly non-white districts across all 50 states actually spent […]
Hackers were inside South Korea's diplomat training system for 9 months
Unidentified hackers compromised an online education system used by South Korea's diplomatic academy, stealing personal information belonging to former and current employees of the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
ICE Has Detained More Than 650 Kids in California Under Trump Deportation Crackdown
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has detained more than 650 children in California under President Donald Trump’s second term, an EdSource analysis of federal data has found. Most arrests happened in California communities, rather than at the border, and involved minors who resided and attended school in the state. The number of children detained in […]
Digital Talent EU Days 2026 in Dublin
Digital Talent EU Days 2026 in Dublin Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/20/2026 - 15:02 15 October 2026 - 16 October 2026 Trinity Business School, Dublin, Ireland The Digital Talent EU Days will host a debate on Europe’s digital skills challenges and drive action on talent, competitiveness and inclusion. Digital Talent EU Days On 15 and 16 October, LEADSx2030 and Connecting Women in Digital , in partnership with the European Commission, National Coalitions , agencies and local partn
Eskom Expo regional science fairs kick off across SA
More than 6 000 school projects will be on display at 38 regional fairs, with winners progressing to the Eskom Expo International Science Fair in September.
How Livestreamed Child Abuse Is Challenging How We Think About Online Privacy
Millions of children are exploited in private video calls, exposing gaps in how platforms detect abuse and protect their youngest users.
Opinion: Screen Bans Can Be Education’s Dry January — Time for a Much-Needed Reset
More than 250 million American adults start the new calendar year with a pledge to complete Dry January. By giving up alcohol for a month, some hope for a physical or mental reset, while others hope to give up drinking for good. While more than a quarter of participants won’t make it through the full […]
Vodacom, Wits partner on leadership programme for students
The three-month initiative aims to give university students practical workplace exposure before they graduate.
From Music Teacher to National Union Leader: Top Takeaways From New NEA Chief
Princess Moss has been a leader of the National Education Association since 2014, but soon she will implement her own plans for the union as incoming president. One of her top goals when she takes office Sept. 1 is to shift campaigning and organizing from the union’s centralized, national level to local affiliates. Moss was […]
Is China replacing the U.S. as the world’s AI touchpoint thanks to Kimi K3?
The release of Kimi K3, an artificial intelligence model created by a former computer science graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, has rocked parts of social media and the AI commentariat. The model, developed by Moonshot AI—a Chinese lab cofounded by that ex-student, Yang Zhilin—has wowed many observers with its capabilities. “Kimi K3 demonstrates the U.S. moat in building frontier AI software is not as durable as many of us had hoped,” says Ryan Fedasiuk, a fellow at the American En
Children in This Church Were Sexually Abused. Then They Began Abusing Other Kids. Some Continued as Adults.
The post Children in This Church Were Sexually Abused. Then They Began Abusing Other Kids. Some Continued as Adults. appeared first on ProPublica .
ACLU Hosts Over 900 High School Students for National Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union today kicked off its largest ever National Advocacy Institute, hosting over 900 students from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico in the ...
Driving More Students to ‘High-Value’ Programs
Driving More Students to ‘High-Value’ Programs Doug Lederman Mon, 07/20/2026 - 03:00 AM Defining programs solely by graduates’ earnings isn’t ideal, but it’s where we are. A new report shows that it can be done, and how. Byline(s) Doug Lederman
New Initiative Targets Transfer Credit Loss
New Initiative Targets Transfer Credit Loss Joshua.Bay Mon, 07/20/2026 - 03:00 AM Higher education accreditor SACSCOC’s new consortium aims to create common transfer pathways and shorten time to degree. Byline(s) Joshua Bay
How Soon Could Colleges Lose Loan Access Under New Accountability Metric?
How Soon Could Colleges Lose Loan Access Under New Accountability Metric? jessica.blake@… Mon, 07/20/2026 - 03:00 AM For most programs, data from the new test on student earnings will be released in 2027 and failing programs could face penalties in 2028. But some have been granted an extension that student advocates say is harmful. Byline(s) Jessica Blake
Agenda: Age Verification and Restricting Social Media for Children, Delhi, 31 July #NAMA
Join our invite-only New Delhi roundtable on age verification, children’s social media access, enforcement challenges, and policy alternatives to blanket restrictions in India. The post Agenda: Age Verification and Restricting Social Media for Children, Delhi, 31 July #NAMA appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
VETTING: A dual-LLM framework for in-loop safety verification via policy isolation in educational AI
Publication date: Available online 18 July 2026 Source: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence Author(s): Hongming Li, Shan Zhang, Anthony F. Botelho
EduGuard: A Safe RAG-Based LLM Tutor for Programming Education
arXiv:2607.15738v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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-approv
Student Evaluation of Repeated AI Feedback Across a Semester of Writing
arXiv:2607.16115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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 perc
A Scaffolded GenAI Lab in Early Undergraduate CS: A Mixed-Methods, Multi-Course Evaluation
arXiv:2505.00100v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Background and Context. Generative AI (GenAI) tools are increasingly used in programming courses, but we have limited evidence about how brief instruction can foster responsible, learning-oriented use. Objectives. We evaluate "AI-Lab", a scaffolded GenAI literacy intervention, asking how students' self-reported GenAI usage and their openness and comfort using GenAI for conceptual, debugging, and homework tasks change after participation. Method
Stop policing AI in the classroom, start teaching it
Universities’ crackdown on the use of AI misses the point. They should instead teach it as a vital productivity tool, undepinned by ethics.
From air ambulances to fertility care: How one resignation gave birth to Wakamedics
In this edition of After Hours, we follow the journey of Victoria Duru, and how her personal experience balancing childbirth and work inspired her startup, Wakamedics.
Quality assurance in generative AI-mediated education: a bibliometric and scoping review
The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence has introduced transformative opportunities and critical challenges for quality assurance in educational settings. This study aims to systematically map the scientific landscape on quality assurance in education mediated by generative artificial intelligence, identifying predominant methodological approaches, conceptual frameworks, and emerging research gaps. A bibliometric and scoping review was conducted following PRISMA-ScR guidance
PLUTO: a YOLO-based lung field detector for pediatric lateral chest X-rays generalizable to adults
IntroductionLateral chest X-rays (CXRs) are very important for detecting tuberculosis (TB) in infants and children, particularly for assessing TB-related lymphadenopathy and intrathoracic structures that are obscured in frontal projections. Although deep learning (DL)–based artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced CXR analysis, lateral projection imaging remains largely unexplored. Lung field detection is a critical first step in such pipelines, enabling DL models to focus on the relevant anato
EduPanel: A Three-Agent LLM Judge for Teaching Videos -- Reliability, Complementarity, and Human Trust Calibration
Teaching videos are becoming a major medium for education, creating a growing need for scalable evaluation of their pedagogical quality. Existing automatic judges do not fully address this setting because teaching quality depends on multimodal evidence and should be evaluated with respect to the intended learner rather than as a universal property. We present EduPanel, a rubric-grounded, learner-conditioned LLM judge that decomposes evaluation across specialized agents to produce interpretable a
AllHere Chatbot Scandal Shows How Not to Deploy AI
Want proof that policymakers and school staff need help with artificial intelligence? Look no further than the Los Angeles Unified School District. Superintendent Alberto Carvalho resigned June 21 as ...
School of Biological Sciences
NTU School of Biological Sciences (SBS) explores new knowledge and discoveries in molecular biology that will have major impact on the life sciences, widely acknowledged as the next technological ...
Book Bans, Censorship and Funding Fears Challenge Ohio Public School Librarians
Public school librarians in Ohio are raising alarms about book bans and funding cuts. School librarians have been navigating challenges in their work as long as they’ve been among the stacks in their local districts. Proposed legislation to filter the reading choices students can make has brought concern, and budget reductions make some worry about […]
NYC’s Mayor Asked for Parents’ Opinions on Schools. Here’s What Some Have to Say
When Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City, he vowed to gather community feedback on how the public schools are working. His chancellor, Kamar Samuels, has assembled working groups “tasked with creating customized proposals to accelerate the work of building a stronger school system, rooted in academically rigorous, safe and integrated schools.” So I […]
These Parents Are Asking Reddit to Photoshop the Most Painful Pictures They Own. The Reason Why Is Tragic.
After losing a child, many parents turn to one online community—and find unexpected support.
New Approach to Scaling Laws Could Change How AI Models Are Trained
Leveraging statistical concepts from measurement science and education, AI researchers have greatly reduced the computational demand of predicting how the largest of large language models will scale up in the future. It could save millions of dollars in training costs.
Victoria announces new social media ‘demasking’ powers for accounts accused of vilification
New laws would give Vcat power to force social and AI platforms to identify anonymous users in move premier says will protect children Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Social media companies could be forced to identify anonymous accounts accused of online vilification, under new laws being proposed in Victoria. The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, announced a suite of social media reforms on Sunday, saying families needed new ways to protect their children online. Co
These Hip-Hop Artists Were Already Teaching
A new degree program credentials hip-hop artists to bring communal, real-world learning to the classroom.
BAFTA Student Award Winners Include Young Filmmakers From Spain, France, China and America
This year's honorees were announced at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Friday night.