Education
Classrooms, tutors and tests — how students and teachers actually use AI, and what it does to learning.
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3 min readMixedNYC schools ban student AI use for a year, cap screen time, roll out free 2-KNew York City opened the school year with a one-year freeze on generative AI for students, new daily screen-time limits by grade, and the first phase of a free universal 2-K child care program.4 min readMixedGlobal study: students who use AI for schoolwork often score lower — but not alwaysA new OECD test of 760,000 teens finds AI use is linked to weaker scores overall, except when it's moderate, purposeful, and paired with training to question the AI's answers.3 min readMixedChicago Opens Its First AI School With No Teachers, for $55,000 a YearAlpha Chicago swaps lecturing teachers for AI-driven lessons and human "guides," packing core subjects into two hours a day.4 min readMixedNYC Schools Ban AI Chatbots Through 8th Grade, Ease In High School UseAmerica's largest school district is pausing generative AI for younger kids for a year while letting some teens try supervised pilot programs — pleasing almost no one completely.4 min readMixedNYC schools bar AI use for students through 8th gradeStarting next week, the nation's largest school district blocks AI tools for kids under high school and keeps devices away from students through third grade.4 min readMixedNYC Public Schools Ban AI Tools for Students Through 8th GradeThe nation's largest school district is barring chatbots, AI tutors and companion apps for nearly 600,000 kids from pre-K through middle school, while adding new screen-time limits.4 min readMixedSchools are teaching AI use fast — but not whether it's used wellFrom K-12 classrooms to college workshops, AI literacy programs are spreading, but almost no one is tracking whether students learn to use the tools responsibly.4 min readMixedMiddle Schoolers Got Free AI Tutors. Most Used Them to Ask for Jokes, Not Help.A two-year study found kids barely used an AI tutor for real learning, while curriculum-built AI reading tools show promise — the difference seems to be how tightly a teacher controls the tool.4 min readMixedSchools stop banning AI, start teaching kids where it gets things wrongA growing number of U.S. schools now use flawed chatbot answers as teaching tools, while a new classroom trial shows AI tutors help but also slow kids down.3 min readConcerningKentucky Middle School Sent Home an AI-Written Agenda Full of ErrorsA Louisville school's first-day packet, built with AI, mislabeled states, invented fake atomic masses, and drew countries in the wrong place.4 min readMixedStudy: AI Tutors Help Kids Learn Math More When They Force a RedoA Tennessee experiment with 6,000+ middle schoolers found AI tutoring only boosted math scores when paired with forcing students to prove they'd mastered a skill.4 min readMixedAI is breaking how schools test students and what they choose to studyGlobal exam scandals tied to AI cheating are colliding with a wave of US students switching majors out of fear AI will wipe out their future jobs.5 min readMixedColorado students fight universities' new AI chatbot dealsCU Boulder and Colorado State rolled out campus-branded ChatGPT tools after student backlash over privacy, cost and worries AI is quietly eroding how people learn to think.4 min readMixedDenmark to fight AI cheating with oral exams and screen monitoringFacing a surge in AI-assisted cheating, Denmark is forcing upper-secondary students to defend written work aloud and putting exam computers under closer watch.4 min readConcerningAI-proctored exam glitch forces 58,000 Mexican students to retake entrance testUNAM's first fully remote, AI-supervised admissions exam produced wildly inflated top scores — so the university is making tens of thousands retake it in person.4 min readMixedRare, one-of-a-kind books are getting bought up and pulped to train AIAustralian booksellers say a Canadian "book recycler" placed odd bulk orders that fit a pattern AI firms use to feed training data — with irreplaceable titles at risk of being destroyed.4 min readConcerningSchool Says It Had No Duty to Report AI Nudes of 59 StudentsLancaster Country Day School is fighting a lawsuit from victims, arguing Pennsylvania law doesn't yet count AI-generated nude images of real kids as abuse it must report.