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South Korea’s experiment with AI-powered textbooks collapsed within months of launch after widespread technical failures and complaints from students and teachers. The government had promoted the digital textbooks as a way to personalise learning, ease teacher workloads, and modernise classrooms

The southern Indian state of Karnataka plans to use facial recognition to record school attendance, triggering strong opposition from child rights groups and educators. The system is expected to cover more than 52,000 schools and 525,000 pupils. The system would operate through a new mobile app

Sweden is rethinking how much technology belongs in the classroom. After years of slipping results in international reading and maths tests, teachers and officials are questioning whether laptops and tablets have helped students learn. The government has talked about scaling back screens in schools

The Austrian Data Protection Authority has ruled that Microsoft 365 Education used tracking cookies without consent, collecting student data without proper transparency. When students tried to exercise their GDPR rights, Microsoft directed them to their schools, but schools had almost no information

Artificially intelligent teachers assistants have built-in racial bias, a new study found. Common Sense Media evaluated the quality of numerous teaching tools, giving them a prompt to “generate behavior intervention strategies” for students with white- and Black-coded names. White-coded students

The Italian government has passed new laws regulating artificial intelligence, becoming the first European Union country with regulations aligned with the EU's AI Act. The law regulates healthcare, work, public administration, justice, education and sport, requiring traceability and human oversight

UK school management information system (MIS) provider Bromcom was struck with an outage, leaving teachers unable to perform basic tasks. Student attendance, fire registers, and getting parents and guardians' contact details are now taking hours, one anonymous source said. Teachers are reported to

A company in Texas is using drones in schools to try and prevent shootings and assist law enforcement response. Campus Guardian Angel claims its drones can be in the air and firing powder pellets at suspects within 60 seconds. Florida governor Ron DeSantis has approved $557,000 to fund pilot

Students in Colombia are having their education interfered with due to the availability of AI chatbots on platforms such as WhatsApp, teachers say, as resisting the temptation to copy and paste answers from AI is too difficult for pupils. Colombia was already facing issues; just over half of

Kenya will pilot the Kenya Education Management Information System (KEMIS) in July, which integrates the national digital ID, Maisha Namba, with education data from early childhood to university. It will also be linked to birth and death registration, tracking a learner's record through their life

As Kenya faces a teacher shortage, educators are experimenting with AI tools such as Kalasik, which uses models from OpenAI. The country lacks nearly 100,000 teachers and large classroom sizes are normal, but AI has freed up the time teachers previously spent writing lesson plans, allowing them to

In April 2025, prosecutors in Paraná, Brazil initiated legal action against the state government over a program that scans students’ faces to log school attendance. The initiative, introduced two years earlier, requires teachers to capture images of entire classes, which are then analysed to confirm

The Egyptian government and UK-based Academic Assessment Ltd. exposed over 72,000 children’s records linked to the Egyptian Scholastic Test (EST), a university entrance exam for American Diploma students, Human Rights Watch revealed. The unprotected database contained names, addresses, ID copies

School districts in Canada have been constantly monitoring school-issued devices for risks to student mental health and potential shootings, alerting public school teachers, sometimes without parents’ knowledge. Gaggle Safety Management is used by 1,500 school districts to monitor for indicators of

A lawsuit alleging that Edtech giant PowerSchool is selling student data - including health and disciplinary records - without the knowledge and consent of students or parents, has been filed in San Francisco federal court. It claims that PowerSchool can collect "virtually unlimited" data about its

Edtech giant PowerSchool had "all" student and teacher data accessed by hackers after the company's customer support portal was compromised using stolen credentials. The December 2024 breach allowed attackers to access extensive personal information stored in its student information systems, which