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Global Test Scores Hit New Lows — Just as AI Takes Hold in Schools
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (564+ words) Kevin Mahnken is a senior writer at The 74. Students around the world continue to fall further and further behind in the core subjects of reading and math, according to the release of scores from a widely cited standardized test on…...
Schools Have a Motivation Problem — AI Is Making It Impossible to Ignore
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (1731+ words) Greg Toppo is a senior writer at The 74. In 2017, Alex Campbell, a sociology teacher at Elizabethton High School in Tennessee, offered his students the assignment of a lifetime: Could they solve a notorious series of cold-case murders that had stumped…...
Journalist Calls Out ‘Collective Amnesia’ of Schools’ Romance with Big Tech
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (699+ words) Greg Toppo is a senior writer at The 74. A former health industry reporter, Singer sees parallels between Silicon Valley’s campaign for coding, among other measures, and Big Pharma’s influence on medicine, noting huge school investments over the past few years…...
AI Tutors Not Yet a Replacement for Humans, Research Says
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1294+ words) Wendy Graham’s two kids first encountered Amira, a popular artificial intelligence tutoring platform, in 2025, during a summer reading program in New Mexico. She also used it at home with her daughter, now a fourth grader. But she found that the…...
Even With Human Help, Kids Need Motivation to Use AI Tutors. The Question Is What
2+ week, 3+ day ago (418+ words) Meghan McCormick is research and impact officer at Overdeck Family Foundation. Carly Robinson is a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform. By Meghan McCormick & Carly Robinson Artificial intelligence-based tutoring programs promise something schools have long…...
Student Journalists: AI Is Changing Our Work — And Not For the Better
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1523+ words) Greg Toppo is a senior writer at The 74. In the nearly four years since generative artificial intelligence began colonizing the academic lives of teens, it has changed the experience of school for millions of young people. Perhaps no group has…...
When AI Makes Young People Think for Themselves, Real Learning Happens
3+ week, 3+ day ago (284+ words) Ayisha Irfan is founder and CEO of Augmented Intelligence Advisory, a software and advisory company that helps K-12 schools teach students to think alongside AI rather than outsource their thinking to it. On the second day, one of the teens was…...
Survey: 5 Ways AI is Cutting into Students’ Ability to Learn
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1214+ words) Greg Toppo is a senior writer at The 74. Over the past four years, generative artificial intelligence has quietly colonized the minds of U.S. adolescents, changing the way they learn. A College Board survey last fall found that the share of high…...