“We’re standing firmly in our decision to not conflate innovation with more tech.”
Half a million kids, and the district decided the vendors have to prove the benefit before they get the classroom. The industry line has been that AI in early education is inevitable, which is what you say when you cannot show the results. High schoolers get literacy classes twice a year instead, which is a thin substitute but at least it is not a chatbot doing the homework. Watch which ed-tech contracts quietly get renamed.