{"id":186394,"date":"2026-02-11T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/education-initiative-to-strengthen-students-ai-literacy-training-news-center\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T10:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:35:11","slug":"education-initiative-to-strengthen-students-ai-literacy-training-news-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/education-initiative-to-strengthen-students-ai-literacy-training-news-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Initiative To Strengthen Students\u2019 AI Literacy, Training &#8211; News Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utdallas.edu\/students-teaching\/education-uplift-ai-grant-2026\/\">Education Initiative To Strengthen Students\u2019 AI Literacy, Training &#8211; News Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utdallas.edu\/students-teaching\/education-uplift-ai-grant-2026\/\">https:\/\/news.utdallas.edu\/students-teaching\/education-uplift-ai-grant-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-11 10:23:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.utdallas.edu\">news.utdallas.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) has been awarded a $4 million, four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to enhance artificial intelligence (AI) proficiency among high school and college students.<\/li>\n<li>UTD will collaborate with Uplift Education, a local charter school network, to launch the UTD\/Uplift Future Ready AI Collaborative. This K-16 initiative aims to build AI literacy for students in grades 10 through 12 and boost college and career readiness.<\/li>\n<li>The partnership seeks to create a model for using AI to enhance instruction, advising, and institutional processes across secondary and postsecondary systems, and to train high school teachers to support college and career readiness.<\/li>\n<li>The project aims to replicate successful outcomes and provide Uplift students with a strong pathway to attend UT Dallas, while also integrating AI into lessons in a responsible and ethical manner to prepare students for the workforce.<\/li>\n<li>The grant will also bolster UTD\u2019s computing infrastructure and support efforts for student retention and efficient advising as student enrollment increases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Initiative To Strengthen Students\u2019 AI Literacy, Training &#8211; News Center https:\/\/news.utdallas.edu\/students-teaching\/education-uplift-ai-grant-2026\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-11&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.utdallas.edu\/files\/2026\/02\/gaurav_1-2000.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-186394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186396,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186394\/revisions\/186396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}