Early Adopter Districts and AI
Early Adopter Districts and AI: Strategic Pathways, System Strain, and the Conditions for Amplifying Transformation – Center on Reinventing Public Education
School districts are making consequential AI decisions largely on their own—purchasing tools, training teachers, setting policies for student use, and trying to determine what responsible and effective adoption looks like. Without clear federal guidance or a reliable roadmap, what are the most advanced districts learning, and what does it reveal about what the field needs
Opinion | Writing Is Fundamental to How We Think
A.I. can be a crutch that hurts our ability to think creatively.
AI Chatbots Lure U.S. Teens With Fun, Romance and Hidden Dangers
FRIDAY, May 15, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Three out of five U.S. teens have tried AI chatbots, turning to the programs for entertainment, advice, friendship – and
The ChatGPT era prompts a boom in A-graded coursework
Universities now must worry that graduates are leaving AI-proficient rather than knowledgeable about their subjects of study.
"excellent" grades rose by 30% in classes where AI is useful, such as English composition and coding.In classes where it's not — like sculpture and lab-based courses — grades remained flat.
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🤖 The Great Equalizer?
AI writing detectors are ineffective, unreliable and harmful | English Teaching: Practice & Critique | Emerald Publishing
The Graduation Gap: When Students Earn a High School Diploma But Still Can’t Do Math
Aldeman: Nationwide, states' high school graduation rates far exceed the percentage of their students who are proficient in math, by up to 50 points
Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice \ Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Anthropic Education Report: The AI Fluency Index \ Anthropic
Anthropic's AI Fluency Index measures 11 observable behaviors across thousands of Claude.ai conversations to understand how people develop AI collaboration skills.
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Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence \ Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice
Not only are AIs far more agreeable than humans when advising on interpersonal matters, but users also prefer the sycophantic models.
“Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight,” added Jurafsky
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The 90/10 Gap: Research Shows Struggling Students Falling Behind Since 2005
Inequalities in learning between high-achieving students and their lower-performing classmates have grown dramatically, a new study finds.
Stanford Researchers Find Thin Evidence Behind AI Classroom Tools
While AI tools can momentarily improve student performance, Stanford University researchers caution that those gains may not persist once the technology is removed — raising questions about whether the tools are supporting learning or substituting for it.
What K-12 Educators Are Actually Prompting to AI: Early Findings from Teacher-AI Chats | LinkedIn
By Benjamin Leiva, Ana Trindade Ribeiro, Chris Agnew, and Susanna Loeb This is the second of a series of research briefs aimed at understanding how people use AI-powered educational tools. Since the launch of commercially available generative AI, the most common engagement platform is through chat.
The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps — 6th Edition | Andreessen Horowitz
Which AI apps are people actively using? What’s actually making money, beyond being popular? We analyzed the data.
New tools for understanding AI and learning outcomes | OpenAI
OpenAI introduces the Learning Outcomes Measurement Suite to assess AI’s impact on student learning across diverse educational environments over time.
The $165 Billion Question: What The Economist Got Right (and Terribly Wrong) About Education Technology
A response to "Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless"
The EdTech Scapegoat: Reframing the Backlash
What happens when the "Great Rewiring" conversation turns into a legislative crusade against the very tools that keep our modern districts running?
‘Deepfakes spreading and more AI companions’: seven takeaways from the latest artificial intelligence safety report
Annual review highlights growing capabilities of AI models, while examining issues from cyber-attacks to job disruption
Older Americans are spending more time on their phones than younger cohorts, per new data
Some members of the TikTok generation are (very slightly) less glued to their phones than other adults, it turns out....
Medical misinformation more likely to fool AI if source appears legitimate, study shows
Artificial intelligence tools are more likely to provide incorrect medical advice when the misinformation comes from what the software considers to be an authoritative source, a new study found.
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
An eight-month study found that these tools made productivity surge—as well as cognitive fatigue, unsustainable hours, and other problems.
On their own initiative workers did more because AI made “doing more” feel possible, accessible, and in many cases intrinsically rewarding.
AI in the Toy Box: How Parents View AI-Enabled Toys for Young Children
Our research shows that despite safety and privacy risks, AI-enabled toys are popular gift ideas for children.
Anthropic Economic Index report: Economic primitives \ Anthropic
This report introduces new metrics of AI usage to provide a rich portrait of interactions with Claude in November 2025, just prior to the release of Opus 4.5.
The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.
Google / Ipsos Multi-Country AI Survey 2025
Google commissioned Ipsos to conduct a second survey among the public in 21 countries on experiences with and future expectations of artificial intelligence (AI).
The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2025
We’re back with our roundup of the most insightful studies of the year, from the power of brain breaks to groundbreaking research on AI, cell phones, and handwriting in the classroom.