Half of College Students Are Rethinking Their Majors Because of AI
A new Gallup-Lumina survey finds 47% of college students have reconsidered their major because of AI. The real question is whether colleges are ready to respond.
A new Gallup-Lumina survey finds 47% of college students have reconsidered their major because of AI. The real question is whether colleges are ready to respond.
Boston just became the first major U.S. city to mandate AI fluency for all public school graduates. Backed by a $1M seed grant and a public-private partnership, the initiative offers a blueprint that every school district should be studying.
Alpha Schools charges $55K for AI-driven learning with no teachers. The research says AI tutoring works — but only alongside educators, not instead of them. Here’s why replacing teachers with algorithms misses the real AI literacy opportunity.
A Harvard professor’s argument first framework for AI shows every educator what works: clear ground rules that force students to think before they prompt, turning AI into an accelerator rather than a shortcut.
A $23 million initiative is training 400,000 teachers to build agentic AI tools that leverage professional judgment instead of replacing it. The shift from basic AI use to professional AI fluency changes everything.
RAND data shows student AI homework use jumped from 48% to 62% in 2025, while 67% of those same students believe it harms critical thinking. The adoption-literacy gap is the real crisis — and it demands a new approach.
The world’s largest writing education organization just voted to protect the right to say no to AI in the classroom. Here’s why that matters more than you think.
A BU cognitive neuroscientist reveals how unproven AI tools risk repeating the same pattern that created America’s reading crisis. The most urgent AI literacy skill of 2026 isn’t prompt engineering — it’s demanding proof.
Ninety-five percent of faculty say AI will diminish critical thinking. But what if AI didn’t create shallow learning — it just exposed how often we graded output instead of understanding? The real assessment crisis was always there.
52% of teens say AI in school is innovative. 52% of parents say it is unethical. A new Common Sense Media report reveals the widest generational values divide in education since smartphones. The solution is shared AI literacy.
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