Education technology

The co-chairs of the Bipartisan HBCU Caucus, Rep. French Hill (R-AR) and Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC), introduced H.R. 8791, the IGNITE HBCU Excellence Act, following years of bipartisan work to strengthen historically Black colleges and universities. The legislation is co-led by HBCU Caucus Vice Chairs Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) and Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL), and Caucus Members Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) and Rep. Shomari C.

Few areas of higher education have been as passionately debated as learning assessment in the age of AI. Since the debut and rapid adoption of readily available generative AI chatbots, educators have grappled with how learning assessment would be impacted. Educators have weighed in with opinions ranging from "AI will revolutionize higher education" to "AI will destroy higher education" and everything in between. To that end, EDUCAUSE presents this report on the impact of AI on learning assessment.

Insights into the state of K-12 education through the lens of education technology leaders—professionals who play a critical role in ensuring technology is safe, reliable, and effective in supporting student learning, teaching, and district operations. 1) Cybersecurity continues to rank as the No. 1 priority for education technology leaders, reflecting the essential role secure digital systems play in modern education. Most districts are actively investing in monitoring, detection, identity protection, and firewall technologies to safeguard networks, data, and learning continuity.

The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition led more than 80 organizations (including the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society) representing schools, libraries, service providers, and education leaders in sending a letter to the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency not to proceed with its proposed competitive bidding portal for the E-Rate program.

The Department of Labor launched the course titled "Make America AI-Ready" with a goal to, in the course's own words, "make AI feel less like a mystery and more like a tool you actually want to use." While AI and media literacy teachers praised the overall content and framework of the course, some of the course materials raise government ethics questions.

William Liu is grateful that he finished high school when he did. If the latest AI tools had been around then, he said, he might have been tempted to use them to do his homework. Liu, now a sophomore at Stanford, finished high school all the way back in 2024. “I have a younger sibling who is just graduating high school,” he said.

On March 24, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) launched its “Make America AI-Ready Initiative” with a seven-day artificial intelligence (AI) literacy course brought to learners via text messages on their cellphones.

Sen Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Sen Jerry Moran (R-KS), a senior member of the Commerce Committee, introduced the bipartisan NSF AI Education Act of 2026 to expand scholarship and professional development opportunities to study artificial intelligence with support from the National Science Foundation. The NSF AI Education Act would authorize the agency to award undergraduate and graduate scholarships in AI, including scholarships focused on the use of AI in agriculture, education and advanced manufacturing.

A majority of U.S. teens say they use AI chatbots, including about three-in-ten who do so daily. But what are they using them for? And how do they think artificial intelligence (AI) will impact their lives? Teens turn to chatbots like ChatGPT, Copilot and Character.ai for a variety of things – but information seeking and schoolwork help top the list, while “for fun” is not far behind: 

Thirty years ago, when I created the E-Rate program, I believed deeply that access to information and opportunity should never depend on a child’s zip code or family income. E-Rate was built on a simple idea: if we connect every school and every library to the digital world, we can unlock the full potential of every student. For three decades, E-Rate has delivered on that promise, connecting classrooms, libraries, and communities in Massachusetts and across the United States.