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What Alpha School Actually Built

Alpha says children can learn twice as much in two hours. The software gets most of the attention, but the school around it may matter more.

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute

We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.

Innovative Time Strategies for Schools | Unlocking Time

Explore free resources about innovative time strategies to fuel student-centered learning in schools -- includes tools, case studies and opportunities to dig deeper.

Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools

NEW YORK – Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels today announced a moratorium on student-facing generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) use in schools, alongside a new screen time policy, a decision that will impact nearly 600,000 public school students, or two-thirds of the system’s total enrollment. The policy establishes a one-year moratorium, effective in the 2026-2027 school year, on student-facing generative AI for children in 2-K through 8th grade. It also introduces twice-yearly AI critical thinking modules for high schoolers, limited AI pilots for a small number of high school classrooms and age-appropriate screen time restrictions.

Experimental Evidence on the Learning Impact of Generative AI

We study whether access to off-the-shelf generative AI changes how much students learn in a timed assignment. In a proctored, in-person randomized experiment, undergraduates study an unfamiliar topic and write an essay with or without AI, then complete unaided assessments immediately and one week later. AI access raises test scores, and a smaller gain persists a week later. Gains remain for students who use AI as a tutor ("augmentation") and fade for students who have AI write for them ("automation"). We document two mechanisms: students shift time from writing toward reading and searching for information, and report greater learning enjoyment.

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?

The Program

AI-powered curriculum focused on engagement, personalized mastery learning, and life skills workshops

Alex Veremeyenko on Twitter / X

MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.Study groups are disappearing.… pic.twitter.com/kSxKk4h06o— Alex Veremeyenko (@alex_verem) September 12, 2026

Study explores how AI use affects performance on math and reasoning tasks - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

Luiza Jarovsky, PhD on Twitter / X

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse:"Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used… pic.twitter.com/Rq6zUi5mRp— Luiza Jarovsky, PhD (@LuizaJarovsky) May 6, 2026

Artificial intelligence, cognitive offloading and implications for education

This report investigates the challenge driven by the rapidly expanding use of artificial intelligence (AI) in schooling: the risk that students will outsource too much of the cognitive work that is crucial to establishing knowledge, skill and ‘thinking infrastructure’. The report includes specific recommendations for policy and teaching and learning strategies.

What Parents Need to Know About AI in the Classroom | Stanford HAI

From immersive learning and personalized tutors to lesson plans and grading, AI is everywhere in K-12 education.

AI Literacy Across the Curriculum

As you have no doubt seen, AI is becoming ubiquitous in our lives and in the technologies we use every day. Generative AI is no longer an experimental tool, but a deployed technology in many of the…

Artificial intelligence, cognitive offloading and implications for education

This report investigates a profound new challenge driven by rapidly expanding use of artificial intelligence (AI) in schooling: the risk that students will outsource too much of the cognitive work that is crucial to establishing the knowledge, skill and ‘thinking infrastructure’ that enables both schooling success and lifelong capacity for ongoing learning and understanding.There is a growing body of evidence that using AI can short-circuit the cognitive effort required for sustainable, deep learning, with potentially long-term consequences. This cognitive offloading from human to AI is especially risky for school students (‘novice’ learners who are building foundational knowledge and skills) when they turn to AI as a tempting substitute, not an amplifier, increase their dependency on the tool and lose access to deeper learning and critical thinking capabilities. It also introduces extra equity risks for disadvantaged students.The report reviews the cognitive science behind this concerning shift and the growing evidence of its impact. It also outlines how these harmful effects can be counteracted through specific teaching and learning strategies and effective design of AI education technology, anchored on bolstering the central role of teachers. It includes specific recommendations for policy and teaching and learning strategies.

Does AI stop children from learning?

New data show the peril and promise of the technology

Children of the Magenta Line

Why minimally guided AI does not work. Chatbots, novices, the automation of learning and the case for Alpha School