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.
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Boston Just Became the First Major U.S. City to Require AI Fluency. Here’s the Blueprint.
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.
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The $55K AI School With No Teachers — And Why It Misses the Point
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.
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A Harvard Professor Just Wrote the AI Rules Every Classroom Needs
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.
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The White House Just Made AI Literacy a National Priority. Here’s What That Actually Means.
The White House National AI Policy Framework calls for AI fluency across the entire workforce. But frameworks don’t build skills — people do. Here’s what actually needs to happen next.
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400,000 Teachers Are Learning to Think With AI — Not Just Use It
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.
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Students Are Using AI More Than Ever — And They Know It’s a Problem
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.
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The Right to Refuse AI Isn’t Anti-Technology — It’s Pro-Literacy
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.
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75% of Programming Tasks Are Already Done by AI. Here’s What That Means for Your Career
Anthropic’s March 2026 report introduces ‘observed exposure’ — a new measure of which jobs AI is actually performing, not just theoretically capable of. The data reveals a shrinking window of opportunity for professionals who haven’t started building AI fluency.
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The One AI Skill That Could Save a Generation of Readers
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.
