US school districts hit by PowerSchool's December breach say hackers accessed “all” historical student and teacher data; PowerSchool has 50M+ US student records
U.S. school districts affected by the recent cyberattack on edtech giant PowerSchool have told TechCrunch that hackers accessed …
An analysis of 36GB of US school network logs for January 2022 to August 2023 finds widespread internet censoring filters, such as for health and sexuality info
A WIRED investigation into internet censorship in US schools found widespread use of filters to censor health, identity, and other crucial information. X: @meghann , @katiedrumm , @cendemtech , @toddf...
While US schools debate what to teach students about AI's promise and potential peril, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits offer ready-made curriculums
While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons. Mastodon: @BenPatrickWill@mastodon … . Tweets: @m...
Laptops that US schools issued to students for remote learning are likely to have monitoring software, disproportionately affecting low-income students and PoC
Sidney Fussell / Wired : Tweets: @aclu and @pardesoteric Tweets: @aclu : Surveillance on school-issued devices forces children and families who can't afford their own devices to choose between their ...
Investigation finds ransomware hackers are publishing sensitive information of schoolchildren on the dark web; over 1,200 US K-12 schools had data leaks in 2021
Most don't have bank passwords. Few have credit scores yet. And still, parts of the internet are awash in the personal information of millions of schoolchildren. Tweets: @kevincollier , @kevincollie...
A report on student grades from Virginia reveals that online learning has led to a sharp drop in students' academic performance
A report on student grades from one of the nation's largest school districts offers some of the first concrete evidence that online learning is forcing …
Analysis finds that nearly three dozen ransomware attacks have targeted US school districts educating 700,000+ students since the pandemic began in March
Tawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @tawnell , @roberttgarrett , @csstewart , @zcobb , and @wsj Tweets: Tawnell Hobbs / @tawnell : Hey there! Thanks for sharing! One hacker, fresh from h...
Analysis finds that nearly three dozen ransomware attacks have targeted US school districts educating 700,000+ students since the pandemic began in March
Districts around the U.S. are fighting a wave of increasingly aggressive hackers, who are publicly posting sensitive student information
As schools adopt remote learning or hybrid reopening models, US students face a laptop shortage, particularly of low-cost Chromebooks popular at K-8 schools
American students are facing a shortage of laptops, particularly low-cost Chromebooks popular in K-8 schools … Tweets: @crampell , @samharrelson , and @jessedamiani Tweets: Catherine Rampell / @crampe...
Armor: over 500 US schools and colleges have been hit by ransomware in 2019, with 100 schools across fifteen school districts attacked in the last two weeks
Fifteen US school districts, accounting for 100 schools, were hit in the past two weeks alone. — In the first nine months of the year …