Education
Classrooms, tutors and tests — how students and teachers actually use AI, and what it does to learning.
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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.