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Three years into a state takeover, Houston Independent School District will expand its controversial reform model, which is focused on preparing students for an "AI-enabled world," from two schools to nine.
Read full articleA survey by the Center for Democracy & Technology found that 85 percent of teachers used AI in the 2024-25 school year, but only about half received some training or information about AI from someone at their school.
The demand from 29 members comes as the Department of Education is updating its guidance for how teachers should use the technology in their work and classrooms.
Dr Deirdre Hughes says the issue of chronic underinvestment in high-quality, impartial careers guidance across schools, colleges and communities needs to be addressed Alan Milburn’s interim review into young people not in education, employment or training lays bare what those of us working in careers support services have long observed: this is a system failure, not a failure of young people (‘A record of failure’: what’s in the first part of Alan Milburn’s Neet report?, 28 May). Milburn rightly identifies the deep structural dysfunction that has left more than 1 million young people locked out of work and learning – and the stark imbalance between the £25 spent on benefits for every £1 directed at employment support. But the review’s framing of this primarily as a welfare and employment problem risks missing a deeper structural deficit: the chronic underinvestment in high-quality, impartial careers guidance across schools, colleges and communities. Continue reading...
The American Federation of Teachers recommended “no screens” at all for those in second grade or younger, and no A.I. chatbots for students in elementary school.
OpenAI advances Education for Countries, expanding AI adoption in schools with new partnerships, teacher training, and tools to improve global learning outcomes.
Schools can compromise children’s privacy, exposing them to potential identity fraud, harassment and AI exploitation, says Dr Claire Bessant It was concerning, but sadly unsurprising, to read a Guardian article reporting that UK schools are being blackmailed with AI-generated child sexual abuse images created from photos shared on school websites and social media pages (UK schools should remove pupils’ online photos as AI blackmail threat grows, say experts, 8 May). Lord Russell, in the 2024 debates on the data (use and access) bill, highlighted the potential for AI to be used to scrape images from school websites and social media. His comments were informed by research undertaken by Defend Digital Me, which found pupil data in publicly available AI training datasets. Welsh government guidance warns schools to “exercise great caution sharing images or videos of learners publicly on social media platforms due to the potential risk of the content being misused”. It notes that social medi
Schools already know the importance of early childhood education, standardized curricula, data-driven interventions, leadership accountability and instructional time. AI has the potential to support all of these.
From Salt Lake City to New York City, parents are demanding more sway over the digital tools that schools give children.
