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Aldeman: Nationwide, states' high school graduation rates far exceed the percentage of their students who are proficient in math, by up to 50 points

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Anthropic's AI Fluency Index measures 11 observable behaviors across thousands of Claude.ai conversations to understand how people develop AI collaboration skills.

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Not only are AIs far more agreeable than humans when advising on interpersonal matters, but users also prefer the sycophantic models.

Inequalities in learning between high-achieving students and their lower-performing classmates have grown dramatically, a new study finds.

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.

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.

Which AI apps are people actively using? What’s actually making money, beyond being popular? We analyzed the data.

OpenAI introduces the Learning Outcomes Measurement Suite to assess AI’s impact on student learning across diverse educational environments over time.

A response to "Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless"

What happens when the "Great Rewiring" conversation turns into a legislative crusade against the very tools that keep our modern districts running?

Annual review highlights growing capabilities of AI models, while examining issues from cyber-attacks to job disruption

Some members of the TikTok generation are (very slightly) less glued to their phones than other adults, it turns out....

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.

An eight-month study found that these tools made productivity surge—as well as cognitive fatigue, unsustainable hours, and other problems.

Our research shows that despite safety and privacy risks, AI-enabled toys are popular gift ideas for children.

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.

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

Google commissioned Ipsos to conduct a second survey among the public in 21 countries on experiences with and future expectations of artificial intelligence (AI).

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.

A legit study asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok to lie on the couch and talk about their childhoods

ISD found 31 active SIIA tools easily accessible online, putting women and minors at risk, and calls for interventions that stop abuse at the point of discovery.

New Gallup study finds that students have little awareness of pathways other than four-year degrees, and receive limited guidance about alternative options from parents and teachers

For years, there has been a quiet understanding in many high schools that success in certain courses, especially senior math and sciences, required something extra. Not more effort or better attend…

Mathbots haven’t done much for K-12 math instruction. Can more sophisticated uses of AI succeed in turning around American students’ falling scores?

At MAI, we don’t just build AI tools, we care about how real people interact with them.

In order to make progress against poverty in the future, we need to understand poverty around the world today and how it has changed.