The use of AI in education is uncharted territory. This legal case is becoming a catalyst for discussion about its use in schools.

As artificial intelligence (AI) companies rapidly release new models and major tech firms restructure to accelerate their initiatives, the debate over the use of AI in schools is intensifying.

A Massachusetts family is suing a teacher at Hingham High School, along with district faculty members, after the school claimed their son cheated when he utilized AI on a history project and dropped his grade on the assignment to a "D."

The family’s attorney argues the student had used AI similar to a Google search engine, and only in the outline stages. There remains an open dispute between the two parties as to what the school's AI policy is and whether it was breached. 

The incident brings attention to the use of AI in schools and what's acceptable.

As parents, we hold our children's hands as they navigate the world, hoping they will be safe, loved, and valued. We send them to school expecting a safe community to support their academic journey.

Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old non-binary student, attended Owasso High School in Oklahoma, where instead of being received by a safe and welcoming community, their family says they were relentlessly bullied for months over their gender identity.

On February 7, during an altercation with three other students in the bathroom, Benedict reportedly blacked out while they were beaten on the bathroom floor. They died the following day.

Nineteen days later, the Associated Press reports more than a dozen Owasso students walked out of class in protest. They say they want action against discrimination and bullying of transgender and nonbinary students. There have been vigils held in Oklahoma and across the country.

Season 6 of Love is Blind is currently airing, and it's been making headlines for a unique reason: it features the first single mom participant, Jessica Vestal. Early in the initial batch of released episodes, Jessica expressed her fear about revealing to the male contestants that she is a mother.

"I'm super nervous about how some of the guys are gonna receive that I have a child,” she shared with the group.

Co-host of the Netflix show, Vanessa Lachey, asked, “Do you think that that’s something that you’re going to wait to tell someone, or you think that you’re going to come out of the gate, you know, and be like, by the way, I have a kid?”

To that, Jessica responded, "I want to give people the chance to get to know me individually first, because even though I'm a mother, and it's the most important thing to me, it doesn't define me. Like, I feel like I'll just know when the time is right to tell somebody."

Just as students are getting back into the swing of things post winter break, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced 67 recipients of the EPA’s first Clean School Bus Program’s Grants Competition. The awards were possible thanks to President Joe Biden’s Investing in America initiative, and will allow for more than 2,700 school buses in 280 school districts serving over seven million students.

“It’s an exciting day for us to be able to announce this $1 billion, which will be a shot in the arm to get clean school buses to every community, sooner, rather than later,” Michael Regan, Director of the EPA, tells Parents.

Barbie Summer is about to become Barbie Fall, as this month Barbie recognizes Wilma Mankiller as the newest addition to the Inspiring Women series. In honor of Mankiller’s upcoming birthday on November 18, Barbie collaborated closely with Wilma's family, friends, and the Cherokee Nation on the doll's creation. Designed from an iconic photograph of Wilma taken by her husband Charlie Soap in 2005, the Wilma Mankiller Barbie doll holds a woven basket and wears a richly pigmented turquoise dress with ribbon striping that represents the four directions: north, south, east, and west.

“I am thrilled to see Wilma Mankiller as Barbie. Growing up in the 80’s my sisters and I were passionate about playing with Barbies and I could never have imagined that one day I could see Principal Chief Wilma Mankiller as Barbie,” said Colleen Echohawk, organizer and CEO of the Native-owned Eighth Generation. Echohawk reflected to Parents, “Principal Chief Mankiller is a role model and icon for ALL women and girls who believe that we can achieve greatness by seeing the humanity in every individual and opening the doors of opportunity.”

I boarded the ferry with my son in my arms, crossing over the Puget Sound to where his father waited on the other side. After handing over our little one, I waited on the dock for the return ferry to begin loading. Back on the ferry, watching the shoreline grow smaller and smaller, I felt as though my heart and limbs were missing. My introduction to co-parenting was less conventional and rather cinematic.

In the beginning years of co-parenting, we all feel the loneliness and pain of not having our child with us every day. While the years have passed, and my son’s father and I have grown and evolved along the journey, I know firsthand just how heavy an emotional toll co-parenting can take on all.

Parents new to this world, are sharing powerful videos on TikTok conveying these challenges. One of the most immediate experiences a new co-parent has is coming home to silence.