What we are reading about AI in schools, and what we make of it.
September 29, 2026
Mustafa Suleyman, TED
Microsoft's AI chief could not answer his six-year-old nephew's question at breakfast, and offers the audience a metaphor instead, a new digital species that will be tutor, coach and friend. Two and a half years on, states are writing rules against that framing for children. The nephew's question is still the best opener for an AI literacy lesson we know of.
Continue reading →September 28, 2026
Lee V. Gaines, NPR
NPR finds districts running AI experiments on students with no agreed way to measure them. The Stanford review behind the piece went through more than 800 papers and found twenty that can show cause and effect, none of them in a U.S. K-12 classroom.
Continue reading →September 16, 2026
The New York Times, via GV Wire
An MIT committee reports that AI use is producing "cognitive surrender" and an illusion of learning. Universities are going three different directions about it. The students they are describing learned the habit in high school.
Continue reading →September 4, 2026
Tony Frontier, Educational Leadership, ISTE+ASCD
Focus groups with more than 250 high school juniors and seniors across 20 schools. About 85 percent use AI for schoolwork, and what they say they want from teachers is instruction rather than a ruling.
Continue reading →August 14, 2026
Jen Cooper, TEACH.org
TEACH.org puts the automation risk for teaching under ten percent, and reports that teachers using AI to build materials save under two hours a week. The second figure is the one worth taking to a staff meeting.
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