WHAT WE’RE READING
Sal Khan admits that his much-hyped AI tutoring chatbot hasn’t revolutionized student learning. As he tells Matt Barnum, “AI is going to help…But I think our biggest lever is really investing in the human systems.” It’s a sentiment remarkably similar to thoughts shared last week by Google’s Head of Learning (covered here in SCHOOLED). —Chalkbeat
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In Education Next, Alan Gottlieb, Maya Lagana, and Van Schoales share how rural districts in Colorado do “deeply relational work while fighting a regulatory architecture built for districts 10 to 50 times their size.” They describe district leaders in tune with their community needs, while frustrated by the burdens of state-mandated reporting and a disregard for the needs and capacities of rural districts across the state.
Editor's note: This was first published on Mike Petrilli's Substack, SCHOOLED, a twice-weekly free Substack and email newsletter restarting the education-reform conversation.
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