Round Rock ISD families push district to adopt screen-free classrooms

In the competition for their kids' attention, some parents from Round Rock Independent School District worry they're losing.
GCN

Google expands Gemini student hub to K-12 classrooms of all ages

Google has widened access to a dedicated “student hub” inside its Gemini app, making the feature available to Google Workspace for Education users of all ages after first testing it only with personal ...
Wall Street Journal

Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far

Faced with quadratic equations, Richard Scott couldn’t resist the temptation. The Pennsylvania eighth-grader knew that the Google search box on his school laptop was essentially an AI chatbot that ...
Scientific American magazine

OpenAI unleashes hundreds more math results upon a field already in shock

The floodgates are open. Right on the heels of OpenAI’s new large language model producing the biggest math breakthrough in two decades, the company just released no less than 372 results from the ...
Reuters

Google announces Gemini 4 flagship AI model after months of delays

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab on Wednesday announced a new top-tier artificial intelligence model to anchor its Gemini 4 generation of models in a fresh ...
NPR

Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them

For a few weeks last school year, a small group of students in Dayton, Ohio, regularly sat in front of laptops in conversation with a social-emotional learning chatbot named Jordan. Unlike AI chatbots ...
CBS 6

Global study shows U.S. students struggling with math, but there are positive takeaways

(WRGB) — Fifteen-year-olds in the United States are outperforming their international peers in science and reading, but domestic math scores continue to lag behind global leaders. The latest findings ...