The UK’s data regulator has reprimanded a secondary school in Essex for illegally deploying facial-recognition technology to take cashless canteen payments from students. Under the […]
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New York City is moving to ban phones from school. Will it work? : NPR – The TechLead
A teenager uses her mobile phone to access social media on Jan. 31, 2024, in New York City. The city may soon become the largest […]
Los Angeles school board votes to ban student cellphone use during school day | Los Angeles – The TechLead
The Los Angeles unified school board passed a resolution on Tuesday to create “phone-free” days, making it the largest school district in the US to […]
Georgia Tech dean details why the school needed a new AI supercomputer – Computerworld – The TechLead
Tell me about the Makerspace project and how it came to be? “The Makerspace is really the vision of our dean and the school chair […]
Police arrest high school athletic director for deepfaking principal’s voice – The TechLead
In brief: Baltimore police arrested a high school athletic director after he allegedly created an AI-generated recording of the school’s principal making racist and antisemitic […]
School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis – The TechLead
On Thursday, Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, Dazhon Darien, and charged him with using AI to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, […]
Hackers steal children’s school photos following a privacy breach – The TechLead
Hackers have stolen an undisclosed number of student images, including roughly 160 from four schools in Calgary, following a data breach. Kristen Gobeil alerted Global […]
Texas and the Politics of School Choice – The TechLead
Isn’t Texas supposed to be the land of the free and brave? Apparently not when it comes to education. Some GOP legislators in the Lone […]
Next Up for School Choice: Tennessee – The TechLead
Competition was top of mind at a press conference in Tennessee on Tuesday, and appropriately so. Republican Governors are in a healthy race to offer […]
UT System chancellor wants to help students add credentials, come back to school later in careers – The TechLead
While special sessions continue to drag on, the regular session of this year’s Texas Legislature was “by far” the most successful ever for financial support […]