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Sep 2, 2026
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5 min read
In a column in the NY Times, Adam Grant says redesigned exams won't stop cheating because the root is motive, not opportunity. He's half right, and the half he's missing is the assignment that openly includes AI, which may be the best integrity training a school can offer.
Aug 19, 2026
AI lets one person do what used to take a team, from any zip code. Districts should be teaching kids to build where they live.
Aug 5, 2026
6 min read
The cheating fight is producing viral gotchas, dead honor codes, and lawsuits over faulty detectors. It is not producing students who know what AI is for. The districts getting this right are designing assignments around AI use, not against it.
Jul 23, 2026
Districts built policies for vetting AI. The AI that most students and some teachers use bypasses those policies, in most cases.
Jul 8, 2026
Ohio just became the first state to make district AI policies mandatory, with more states behind it. The statute tells you the floor. It says nothing about the destination, and the districts that write both documents will be the ones this era rewards.
Jun 24, 2026
The AI fight in K-12 right now isn't really about technology. It's about districts that can't say what they're running or who can see student usage. The answer to that is transparency, not a moratorium.
Jun 10, 2026
4 min read
New Jersey just became the latest state to use AI to score student essays on high-stakes assessments. In Massachusetts, the ~1,400 errors that slipped through last year were caught by a single teacher. Not the vendor, not the state. And new CRPE research finds teacher prep programs aren't part of the AI conversation at all.
May 27, 2026
The "we're waiting for guidance" era is over. Guidance is arriving simultaneously from above and below. Districts that haven't built their own framework are about to be implementing someone else's.
May 13, 2026
Two new national surveys just mapped a different kind of AI communication gap. It's not between districts and parents. It's between parents and their own kids.
Apr 29, 2026
If your district doesn't have a managed AI platform, student data is almost certainly leaving your building. A written policy can't stop that.
