Tag: education
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The School That Got AI Right
Some schools are getting AI right. Their approach is neither banning it nor uncritically embracing it. It's something more precise and more demanding.
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Standardized Tests' Last Stand
Standardized tests survived every previous technology threat. AI is different because it doesn't just help students prepare — it changes what preparation means.
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The STEM Mismatch
The STEM pipeline was built for a labor market that AI is restructuring in real time. Schools are producing workers for jobs that will not exist at scale.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is the most-cited educational goal of the AI era and the least clearly defined. Precision matters because the vague version is unteachable.
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The Homework Industrial Complex
Harris Cooper's homework research has been clear since 1989: most homework doesn't work. AI just made the inconvenient evidence impossible to ignore any longer.
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The Personalization Trap
EdTech has promised personalized learning since the 1990s. AI brings this closer, but the concept itself may be built on a flawed theory of how learning works.
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What the Calculator Wars Actually Teach Us
The calculator debate is the closest historical parallel to AI in education. Getting that history right matters for understanding what comes next.
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The Teacher in the Age of AI
The teacher's role is changing, but not disappearing. AI makes some of what teachers do obsolete and amplifies the rest. Most schools have it backwards.
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Every Student Has an AI. Now What Actually Changes?
Universal AI access doesn't only change what students can cheat with. It changes what's worth learning, what a grade certifies, and which students pull ahead.
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The Tutor Problem
One-on-one tutoring produces enormous learning gains. AI tutoring products mostly replace the wrong part of it, and the evidence for the part they do replace is older and better than the evidence for the part they advertise.
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What EdTech Companies Are Actually Selling
EdTech raised $20B in 2021 and mostly failed. AI EdTech is making the same promises with better vocabulary and almost nobody is asking why the last round collapsed.
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The Academic Integrity Crisis That Wasn't
The AI cheating panic runs on a sixty-year script: photocopiers, pocket translations, the web, now language models. Each round reveals what schools actually grade for, and it isn't learning.
